HOUSEBy ALAN FRAM WASHINGTON — Rep. Nancy Pelosi all but ensured that she will become House speaker next month, quelling a revolt by disgruntled younger Democrats by agreeing to limit her tenure to no more than four additional years in the chamber’s top post. Within moments of announcing Wednesday she would restrict her time in…
When Sean Parker crossed California’s beach access police over his wedding in Big Sur, the tech billionaire agreed to create a coastal access app for the people. The app launches Thursday after an unusual collaboration between two very different, but very California, worlds.
When UC Santa Barbara art professor Kip Fulbeck visited a colleague’s class as a guest lecturer last year, he grew fed up with students who slept, played with their phones or left for the restroom and didn’t come back. He noticed that many of the offenders seemed to be international students from…
If you are in any way associated with L.A. public schools, you’ve probably been hearing quite a bit about the possibility of a teachers strike. The teachers union could call for one in the next few weeks. Talks between the union and the Los Angeles Unified School District appear to be going nowhere,…
For Christmas 1990, Los Angeles Times reporter Bob Pool worked as Santa Claus at various Southern California locations.
It may not be Santa’s workshop, but it’s a pretty close approximation. On afternoons like Wednesday — at least afternoons in the midst of the holiday season — the U.S. Postal Service’s Processing and Distribution Center in the City of Industry is filled with people working in synchronization to ensure gifts get into the right…
A recent spike in jury duty complaints from Orange County residents prompted officials on Wednesday, Dec. 12, to warn people not to be fooled by scammers posing as court employees and threatening bogus penalties over the phone. The scam, which involves callers asking for personal information and payments after claiming that their victims had failed…
In an unprecedented step, state regulators Wednesday adopted standards that would force San Francisco and several big San Joaquin Valley irrigation districts to give some of their river supplies back to the environment. But they also left the door open to agreements that would significantly undercut…
Garden Grove police are hunting for three men who they say robbed a cell phone store Tuesday, Dec. 11. Officers responded about 3:40 p.m. Tuesday to the Metro PCS store in the 12800 block of Haster Street and learned that three men entered the store and asked about cell phones. One removed a gun from his waistband,…
A La Habra woman used her credit union job to secretly open bogus lines of credit for her online boyfriend, who then siphoned off nearly $1.1 million, a prosecutor told a federal jury Wednesday, but a defense attorney said the woman had been groomed by a con man who played on her emotions. Indira Mohabir,…
