More than 10,000 people are expected to pack a small high desert baseball stadium next month for what might be the first state-sanctioned cannabis festival in Southern California. Dope Cup High Desert, put on through a new partnership between High Times and Dope magazines, is taking advantage of a change in state law that allows…
A powerful winter storm drenched Los Angeles and Orange counties on Thursday, pummeling the region with rain and wind that led to widespread flooding and debris flows while dumping as much as five inches of rain on the San Gabriel Mountains. Sandra Banuelos, 18, takes a ride on a tire swing over the beginnings of…
It’s a dictator’s move! It’s a long-overdue push against illegal immigration! It’s politically tone-deaf! And that covers just some of the views expressed by immigration activists, Southern California House members, constitutional scholars and others when asked about President Donald Trump’s plan to declare a national emergency as a way to override Congress and pay for part of…
Shawn Archbold handed out chocolate, flowers and coffee to strangers on Thursday, Valentine’s Day. No, he wasn’t looking for a date, although he was trying to spark a connection between the importance of honey bees to the U.S. food supply and pesticide use. “Bees pollinate everything from chocolate, to flowers to coffee. Without bees, we’d…
A man who had been hospitalized for weeks died on Wednesday, Feb. 13, following a traffic collision that happened in Huntington Beach at the end of January A preliminary investigation suggests that a Toyota Tundra traveling north on Brookhurst Street collided with a Cadillac Escalade at Atlanta Avenue shortly before 8:42 a.m., according to a news…
A Los Angeles police commander assigned to home duty after his unmarked car was found crashed and abandoned enrolled days later in a controversial retirement program that allows him to collect essentially twice his usual pay. By joining the Deferred Retirement Option Plan, the commander will begin…
Colleges and universities across California are scrambling to revise the way they handle sexual misconduct cases after a state appellate court ruled that “fundamental fairness” requires that accused students have a right to a hearing and to cross-examine their accusers. The decision last month…
Alex Villanueva’s upset victory in last fall’s L.A. County sheriff’s race hinged on the overwhelming support he got from immigrant rights advocates and Latino voters. By vowing to strictly limit his department’s cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and keep the county jails…
Betty Ballantine, half of a groundbreaking husband-and-wife publishing team that helped invent the modern paperback and vastly expand the market for science fiction and other genres through such bestsellers as “The Hobbit” and “Fahrenheit 451,” has died. Ballantine died Tuesday at her home in Bearsville,…
Their ceremony over, Miriam Lopez grabbed her new husband from behind by the collar of his dark blazer. The newlyweds then posed for a photo snapped on a smartphone as the groom, Henry Escalera, playfully pretended to escape. After eight years as a couple, they did it. “I finally nabbed him,” said…
