New Los Angeles Laker LeBron James is bolstering the security at his LA home after learning he was targeted by a team of burglars. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) LOS ANGELES — LeBron James has beefed up security at his L.A. home, bringing a team of armed guards to patrol his house after learning he was targeted…
Juan Romero struggled for decades with a memory he could not escape. He left Los Angeles and moved to Wyoming, later came back west and settled in San Jose, raised a family and devoted himself to construction work. But still he was haunted by what happened just after midnight on June 5, 1968, when…
California State University Chancellor Timothy P. White said Wednesday that he has asked academic leaders to study whether the SAT and ACT are valid predictors of student success, raising hopes that the nation’s largest public university system will ultimately drop standardized test scores as admission…
Under gray skies, a convoy of six tractor-trailers pulled up to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles on Wednesday morning, kicking off a protest to call attention to the plight of hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants — some of them truck drivers — who face deportation when their…
An immigration judge appears poised to cancel the deportation of an immigrant in the country illegally who was arrested near the Mexican border last year and accused of smuggling after giving a ride to a teenager. Jesus Arreola Robles, now 24, said he thought he was giving a paid ride to a friend’s…
Corrective action has been taken at Adelanto Detention Center in the wake of a scathing federal report that found numerous nooses fashioned from bedsheets hanging in cells and inadequate medical care for immigration detainees, according to the company that owns the facility. Adelanto warden James Janecka, who is employed by Florida-based GEO Group Inc., the owner and…
A mistrial was declared Wednesday in the trial of a doctor accused of attempting to kill a Newport Beach attorney. Richard Lee Austin, 66, was previously convicted of stalking and trying to kidnap the same attorney. But, for a second time, jurors were unable to come to an agreement as to whether he was attempting…
Letting two cars drive onto the 91 Freeway at Corona’s Green River Road for each green on-ramp light seemed like a good idea. But after the experiment snarled traffic and confused motorists a third straight day this week on Wednesday, Oct. 3, transportation officials decided to end their test two days early. On the mornings of…
A man was injured after jumping or falling from an overpass onto the 57 Freeway in Anaheim in front of hundreds of bystanders on Wednesday, Oct. 3. Traffic comes to a stop on the 57 Freeway and Lincoln Avenue as Anaheim police officers try talking a man from jumping on Wednesday, October 3, 2018. The man…
We got the dark clouds, but not much water. What happened, Southern California? Storm clouds provides a scenic background to Edward the Columbian Mammoth during sunset in Jurupa Valley on Wednesday, October 3, 2018. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG) Storm clouds provides a scenic background to Edward the Columbian Mammoth during sunset in Jurupa…
