Jim Brulte, chairman of the California Republican Party and a former GOP leader in the state Senate and Assembly at his home in Fontana on Thursday, February 14, 2019. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG) Jim Brulte, chairman of the California Republican Party and a former GOP leader in the state Senate and Assembly at…
Anybody having an emergency? How ‘bout an emergency happy hour? Emergency skiing? And, of course, there’s always emergency golf. As President Trump announced his call for a national emergency Friday before jetting to Mar-a-Lago for a golf get-away, the public took to Twitter to question his choices. The Tweets were to the point. Anyone else…
In December, Zhoie Perez, a YouTube personality known for testing the limits of the 1st Amendment, stood on a sidewalk outside a church in Northridge filming with her iPhone. When two young men approached to question her, Perez said, giggling, “We’re going to try the silent treatment.” “Sir. How’s…
Landing gear failure prompted the pilot of a private airplane that took off from Los Angeles en route to Cabo San Lucas to make an emergency landing at the Ontario International Airport on Friday afternoon, officials said. Atif Elkadi, deputy executive officer with the Ontario International Airport, said one of the plane’s rear tires was…
By CARRIE ANTLFINGER and AMANDA SEITZ AURORA, Ill. — A gunman opened fire at a manufacturing plant in suburban Chicago on Friday, killing five people and wounding five police officers before he was fatally shot, police said. Aurora, Illinois, Police Chief Kristen Ziman told a news conference that the gunman was 45-year-old Gary Martin and…
Robert Winter, the architectural historian who spent much of his life examining and explaining Los Angeles’ sprawling and complex cityscape to a generation of residents, students and tourists, has died. He was 94. Winter, a longtime professor at Occidental College who delighted in taking students,…
After years of drought conditions, 2019 is shaping up to be a winter to remember. Rain totals are well above normal, and this week’s storms brought some records. From Palm Springs to parts of San Diego County, communities recorded some of the wettest days in years, in some cases in decades. Downtown…
PHOTOS: Monster storm pummels California, prompting evacuations amid mudslides and flooding
Just days after Carol Kimmelman died of ovarian cancer in 2017, her husband Doug gathered his four children to brainstorm. He wanted to honor her with a legacy-making project that reflected her hobbies and her worldview. Kimmelman’s children knew their mother loved tennis, having been a member…
If you’ve driven Highway 1 near San Simeon in the past few years, chances are you’ve noticed the extraordinary northern elephant seal colony at Piedras Blancas Beach. Last spring, when I stopped in after a reporting trip to disaster-prone Big Sur, a docent told me that the very best time to see…
