A Republican senator from the U.S. Olympic Committee’s home state of Colorado introduced potentially groundbreaking legislation on Tuesday that would create a 16-member panel selected by Congress to evaluate the USOC and recommend structural and policy changes for an organization whose future has been called into question in the wake of the backlash over its…
Authorities detained a 30-year-old Citrus College student suspected of threatening to “shoot up” the school on Tuesday, leading to a more than six-hour lockdown of the Glendora campus. The incident began about 11:15 a.m., when Terrell Lee Bennett called 911 saying he was on his way to the college,…
As the first Los Angeles teachers’ strike in 30 years stretched into its second day, attendance ticked up slightly — about 20,000 more students went to school Tuesday — but remained at about a third of the district’s total enrollment. The school district’s top official lamented that the walkout…
Caren Carl Mandoyan played a special role last month at the swearing-in of Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, standing on stage and holding the box of gold pins that would adorn the collars of the top cop and his senior executives. Mandoyan served as a trusted member of Villanueva’s campaign…
Teachers at three charter schools in South Los Angeles walked off the job Tuesday, marking the first time ever that a charter school organization in California went on strike, according to the teachers union. The strikers joined thousands of other L.A. educators who began a strike a day earlier…
Police arrested a motorist suspected of fleeing a crash in Irvine and leading officers in a pursuit that ended in Corona on Tuesday, Jan. 15. The chase began at 2:21 p.m. near the intersection of Culver Drive and Barranca Parkway, said Kim Mohr, a spokeswoman for the Irvine Police Department. She said officers attempted to…
CAMP PENDLETON — Marines and sailors with the 1st Marine Regiment are joining soldiers from the Japanese Defense Force in amphibious reconnaissance and landing operations, live-fire, mortar, artillery and close air support training across bases in Southern California. On Tuesday, Jan. 15, commanding officers from the Marine Corps and Japanese Defense Force opened Exercise Iron…
Fresh on the heels of an election that swept Republicans from federal power in Orange County, local Democrats elected a new leader Monday night. Hotel employee union leader Ada Briceño, 46, a Stanton resident, took the reins as chair of the Democratic Party of Orange County, becoming the first Latinx woman to win the post….
Like Uber and Lyft before them, the latest Silicon Valley startups also showed up uninvited, dropping electric scooters, battery-powered bicycles and other dockless, micro-mobile rentals onto streets and sidewalks of Southern California. The guerrilla marketing strategy aimed at busting the monopoly of the single-passenger car created multiple battlefronts in today’s “Scooter Wars,” sending some cities…
University of California regents this week will take their first collective look at the inaugural budget proposal of Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has pledged to boost higher education spending after years of fiscal frugality under his predecessor, Jerry Brown. Regents also will discuss plans to increase…
