A man was recovering at a hospital after he was shot in Santa Ana just after midnight on Monday, Nov. 26. A caller reported the shooting at 12:05 a.m. near the intersection of Evergreen Street and Warner Avenue, said Santa Ana Police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna. Responding paramedics found a 23-year-old man who had been shot,…
Despite all the talk about a regional labor shortage, Southern California pay raises remain stubbornly modest. Wages in the region rose at a 3 percent annual rate in the 12 months ended in September — down from 3.2 percent a year earlier, according to one federal yardstick. The Employment Cost Index tracks employee pay without…
On her bed, next to a teddy bear, was the pink-and-blue striped baby blanket she came home from the hospital with as a newborn, and always kept close by despite a few holes worn in over the years. She’d organized the clothes she planned to wear for her 6 a.m. shift at a Newport Beach coffee…
This Thanksgiving week, Honk is thankful for his readers, who are the smartest, prettiest, handsomest, funniest, most creative and happiest people, and the sharpest dressers, too. Because of their questions during the past year, he has learned: – A personalized license-plate number can be re-issued if the previous owner has given up the rights to…
Click for a larger image. LOS ANGELES — Thanksgiving travelers hoping to return home to Los Angeles or to other cities through Chicago are seeing their flights canceled Monday morning due to high winds and blizzard conditions in the Windy City, according to flight data. Ten flights from Chicago to LAX were canceled, according to…
By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A NASA spacecraft’s six-month journey to Mars neared its dramatic grand finale Monday in what scientists and engineers hoped would be a soft precision landing on flat red plains. The InSight lander aimed for an afternoon touchdown, as anxiety built among those involved in the $1 billion international…
By NICOLE WINFIELD ROME — Italian film-maker Bernardo Bertolucci, who won Oscars with “The Last Emperor” and whose erotic drama “Last Tango in Paris” enthralled and shocked the world, died Monday. He was 77. Bertolucci’s press office, Punto e Virgola, confirmed the death in an email to The Associated Press. Italy’s state-run RAI said Bertolucci…
Jose Razo is principal at Telfair Elementary School in Pacoima, the L.A. Unified campus that has more students classified as homeless than any other. For him, teaching these kids is personal, because years ago, he lived as so many of them do today.
At the Ridgewood Mobile Home Park for senior citizens in Paradise on Sunday, more than 100 search and rescue workers in white jumpsuits and gas masks combed through the rubble with shovels and rakes. The surrounding pine trees were singed, ringing a neighborhood where every home had been reduced…
