By JONATHAN LEMIRE and ERIC TUCKER NEW YORK — Rudy Giuliani’s latest media blitz, which was filled with a dizzying array of misstatements and hurried clarifications, agitated President Donald Trump and some of his allies, who have raised the possibility that the outspoken presidential lawyer be at least temporarily sidelined from televised interviews. Trump was…
California again had more outs than ins via major moving companies last year, but that gap shrank 21 percent as departures fell faster than arrivals. My trusty spreadsheet — filled with annual state-by-state migration stats from United, Allied and Atlas van lines — shows a continuation of the long-running decline in people moving, in or…
Russell Baker, the genial but sharp-witted writer who won Pulitzer prizes for his humorous columns in the New York Times and a moving autobiography of his impoverished Baltimore childhood and later hosted television’s “Masterpiece Theatre,” has died. He was 93. Allen Baker told the Associated Press…
ANAHEIM — A 23-year-old Placentia man was killed in what police say they believe was a gang-related shooting Tuesday night, Jan. 22. At around 9 p.m. officers went to the area of East Park Lane and North Lawrence Avenue to investigate a report of shots fired, Anaheim Sgt. Jeff Mundy said on Wednesday. Jose Allan…
Another experienced local politician, former Los Angeles City Council member Jan Perry, is making an early leap into the race to succeed term-limited county Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas next year. Perry announced Tuesday that she’s joining a field that already includes her one-time City Hall rival,…
On Tuesday morning, the day after Democratic U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris made her presidential bid official, a fledgling birther conspiracy about her began to take wing on Twitter. Harris, who happens to be the child of immigrants, was born in Oakland. Which, you know, is in America. To some voters,…
Betty Ford and Cary Grant descend mirrored staircase at the Beverly Wilshire.
Thieves struck two Fullerton cellphone stores in grab-and-run heists just minutes apart on Tuesday, Jan. 22. Two people wearing hooded sweatshirts walked into the Sprint store at 101 W. Orangethorpe Ave., near Harbor Boulevard, snatched phones that were on display and then fled at about 6:15 p.m., according to Fullerton Police Sgt. Mike Hines. He…
SANTA ANA — A Santa Ana man is facing charges of using Instagram to send threatening messages to victims of the Parkland, Fla., mass shooting that killed 17 people last year at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Brandon Fleury was arrested Friday by the FBI and made an appearance in court in Santa Ana when…
Teachers, board members and experts had just begun to scrutinize the landmark deal that effectively ended the Los Angeles Unified School District’s strike on Tuesday. But one thing is clear: The agreement will call for a complex mix of flexibility and cleverness from the district to secure an influx of new funding from the state…
