A bagpiper plays as hundreds gathered to celebrate the life of Bruce Mulhearn in Long Beach on Saturday, January. 12, 2019. Mulhearn who passed away December 26, at the age of 80 was president of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties and a dominant figure in Southern California’s real estate industry. (Photo by Brittany Murray,…
By JILL COLVIN, LISA MASCARO and LAURIE KELLMAN | Associated Press WASHINGTON — Progress made, said one. Not so, said the other. We’ll meet again, said one. Waste of time, said the other. Such has been the life lately of Mike Pence, the loyal soldier dispatched by President Donald Trump to lead negotiations over the…
The 101 Freeway was closed in both directions for hours Saturday after a reportedly armed man led officers on a pursuit before crashing and then engaging officers in a standoff where he was ultimately shot and killed, authorities said. Southbound lanes of the 101 Freeway were shut down at Lost Hills Road as authorities investigated…
Whether they were stuck in an auditorium or playing long-term hooky, many a school kid old enough to remember the 1989 Los Angeles teachers strike recalls the period as nine days of good old-fashioned lawlessness. Quoted in a New York Times article at the time, LAPD Lieut. Frank Valdez expressed his concern about “little predators”…
A federal magistrate has recommended overturning the controversial 2006 conviction of a California man accused of attending a terrorist training camp in Pakistan and plotting an attack in the United States. Hamid Hayat, now 36, who was then a young cherry-picker from Lodi, has served about half…
A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Saturday morning in Northridge in the San Fernando Valley, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 10:38 a.m. Pacific time at a depth of 6.8 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was one mile from North Hills, four miles…
Southern California’s native landscapes are famously tough. But repeated wildfire and drought amplified by climate change pose a growing threat to wildlands that provide us with drinking water, untamed refuge from the Southland’s sprawl and stop mountainsides from sliding into our living rooms.
Federal authorities have launched a criminal investigation into the potential misuse of a $19.2 million federal grant by two administrators at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, The Times has learned. Leticia Barajas, a vice president over workforce development, was placed on paid administrative…
Hundreds of hard-core birders and twitchers from across the nation have been flocking to South Los Angeles this week, hoping to catch a glimpse of a rare bird that wandered in from Siberia and inexplicably chose to hunker down within a hedge just south of the 10 Freeway. The foreign visitor — or…
Southern California could see seven straight days of rain as the region gets hit with five storms that could last through Thursday. Authorities warned that mudslides are possible, both in the storms that will continue through Saturday morning and the sequel — expected to arrive Sunday night and…
