Tensions are high ahead of Tuesday’s election in San Francisco, where a ballot measure would tax corporate businesses to fund services for the homeless. Proposition C, a tax on gross annual receipts of the city’s largest companies, would nearly double San Francisco’s budget dedicated to the curbing…

Nuns from the Little Sisters of the Poor vote early in the morning at an East 1st Street polling place.

If life were fair, Mike Kreza’s wife and three daughters, in two weeks, would watch their favorite firefighter get ready for one of the toughest events of his life, Ironman Arizona. But during a morning of cycling, when Kreza was tapering so he would be in peak shape for the grueling race, a car crushed…

Aaron McCall was sure Hillary Clinton was going to win the Presidency in 2016. When it turned out he was wrong — and Clinton lost to President Donald Trump — McCall decided it was time to get involved. For John Berry, who has pushed for conservative ideals since 2012, Trump’s election meant there was something worth…

Eight-time serial killer Andrew Urdiales, who last month was sentenced to death for murdering women in Orange, Riverside and San Diego counties, was pronounced dead over the weekend in what prison officials said Monday may have been a suicide. Urdiales, who arrived on San Quentin’s death row on Oct. 12, was found unresponsive late Friday…

The state attorney general has sued Quemetco, the battery-recycling facility in City of Industry, citing 29 alleged violations involving failures to stop hazardous waste from migrating into the neighborhood and the underground aquifer, a source of drinking water for more than a million Los Angeles County residents, according to the legal complaint. Using numerous reports…

More than two dozen U.S. Congress members have urged the U.S. Postal Service to “strongly consider” implementing climate-control units in all their mail trucks after a postal carrier died in Woodland Hills over the summer from overheating. U.S. Rep. Tony Cardenas, D- Panorama City, spearheaded the call “for the safety of all mail carriers” in…

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9557 will hold its annual Veterans Day ceremony at 10 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 11 at Veterans Park in Fountain Valley. The ceremony usually attracts 200 to 300 people, and there is ample seating for all. VFW Post 9557 was created through the consolidation of several posts: Post 4048 of Seal…

Los Angeles schools chief Austin Beutner is working on a plan to radically reshape the nation’s second-largest school district by shrinking the central bureaucracy and moving decision-making closer to campuses. The aim is to boost student success and save money at a time when officials insist that…

Questions about voting on Tuesday? Here are some answers. How to find your polling place: Visit the California Secretary of State’s website, www.sos.ca.gov/elections/polling-place, and enter your address. You can also find your polling place by calling the state’s Voter Hotline at (800) 345-8683. …