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…
Peter Magowan, the lifelong Giants fan who formed the ownership group that kept the team in San Francisco with a sparkling waterfront ballpark, died Sunday after a battle with cancer. He was 76. Magowan was a fan ever since going to games at the Polo Grounds in New York and then played a crucial…
Two people were arrested after California Highway Patrol officers found a possible drug lab inside a roving U-Haul box truck early Monday, Jan. 28, after a traffic stop. The CHP officers were driving on the 91 freeway at about 1:14 a.m. when they noticed that liquid was coming out of the moving vehicle, CHP Officer…
LAGUNA WOODS — Laguna Woods City Council has approved two resolutions that would amend job classification terms of city employment. City staff recommended transitioning the current, single-class senior accountant to a dual-class position — expanding hiring eligibility — while simultaneously widening the compensation range and providing promotional opportunities, according to a city staff report. “This…
Fifty years ago, on Jan. 28, 1969, an oil spill began off Santa Barbara that took 11 days to stop and leaked about 3 million gallons. The spill and cleanup of 35 miles of coastline resulted in the establishment of several environmental agencies. We look at the catastrophe and oil operations off the coast today….
With several differing and complex immigration proposals offered as a way to permanently end the government shutdown and help immigrants and asylum seekers, many members of those groups have a simple answer: No thanks. On Friday, Jan. 25, President Donald Trump announced the government would reopen for three weeks while negotiations continue on how to secure the…
By MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA and PETER PRENGAMAN BRUMADINHO, Brazil — Firefighters on Monday carefully moved over treacherous mud, sometimes walking, sometimes crawling, in search of survivors or bodies, four days after a dam collapse that buried mine buildings and surrounding neighborhoods with iron ore waste. The confirmed death toll rose to 58, with up…
