Opening their public corruption case Monday against former Centinela Valley school Superintendent Jose Fernandez, prosecutors honed in on the $910,000 home loan he secured from the district and whether the school board was aware of it. On the first day of Fernandez’s preliminary hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court, an attorney for the school district consumed…
The official deadline to run for a vacant seat on the Orange County Board of Supervisors ended Monday with at least five Republicans and one Democrat in the race, a lopsided field that county GOP leaders fear could help Democrats gain a second seat on the five-member board. The six-week sprint to the March 12…
SANTA ANA — A Southern California engineer who planned to use stolen trade secrets to start his own medical device company in China is going to federal prison. Wenfeng Lu was sentenced Monday to 27 months in prison. Prosecutors say the Irvine engineer, who’s a Chinese national, stole trade secrets while working for two medical…
A federal jury has acquitted two Pomona police officers charged with using excessive force and lying in the arrest of a teenager at the Los Angeles County Fair. The not guilty verdicts, delivered Friday afternoon in a downtown courtroom, cleared Cpl. Chad Jensen of wrongdoing when he struck a boy,…
Storms predicted to drench Southern California this week will bring more precipitation to areas that already have received more than half of their annual rainfall totals this season, meteorologists said Monday. A gradual cooling of temperatures in the beginning of the week will lead into a slight possibility of showers on Thursday in Los Angeles…
Garden Grove firefighters rescued a woman who was pinned beneath a vehicle that struck her at a gas station on Saturday, Jan. 26. Crews used hydraulic jacks to lift the vehicle off of the woman in the lot of the Arco Service Station at 12931 Garden Grove Blvd., said Garden Grove Fire Capt. Thanh Nguyen. The…
Dream Center Education Holdings, which operates Orange County’s first law school as well as several Argosy University and Art Institute campuses in Southern California, has been placed in federal receivership as options are sought to get out of millions of dollars of debt. The move led an accreditation agency to put the college system on…
A Los Angeles Police captain alleged in a lawsuit against the department that she was the victim of sexual harassment and a hostile work environment after a “deeply humiliating” photo of a nude woman was passed around the force that some falsely claimed was her. The lawsuit is the latest in a series…
The smell is what hits you first within a block of Baja California’s medical examiner’s office in Tijuana. It’s the unmistakable odor of rotting corpses, a grim indication of a city overwhelmed by unprecedented levels of violence. Officials in Tijuana’s medical examiner’s office have asked the…
Mayor Eric Garcetti on Monday called for an audit of stops by the Los Angeles Police Department’s elite Metropolitan Division in response to a Times investigation showing the unit pulled over black drivers at disproportionately high rates. Garcetti said the report, which found that Metro officers…
