His last name has five letters, but Republicans running for office in Southern California are as reluctant to mention “Donald Trump” as they are to drop one of the few still forbidden four-letter words in public. It’s a reality of the double political life many candidates on both sides of the political aisle are leading…
Mel Mermelstein kept looking for pieces from a place that tried to kill him. Stones and bits of barbed fence. Forks and spoons for whatever scraps he and others were fed. A photo of him, squeezed among dozens of other prisoners, in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Dr. William Kott and his daighter-in-law, Lisa Kott, examine a picture…
LAGUNA BEACH — Visitors to Aliso Beach on Tuesday, Oct. 9, couldn’t believe their eyes when they saw a silver rocket sitting on a trailer in the parking lot. “Oh my God, it’s been crazy,” said Dustin Otterbach, the driver of the trailer. “Some people thought it crash-landed on the beach, others thought it was…
An elderly motorist lost control of her SUV, which crashed into a parked vehicle, pushing both SUVs into a thrift store in Placentia and injuring herself as well as four other people on Tuesday, Oct. 9, officials and witnesses said. The 88-year-old woman behind the wheel of a white Chevrolet Suburban crashed into a silver…
How conservative is Ramona, Calif.? At the Turkey Inn, the town’s oldest watering hole, there’s a portrait of President Trump in a place of honor above the cash register. “We’re just a good, down-home blue-collar bar,” bartender Erin Smidt said. “Lots of vets and military, and lots of people mad…
Orange County’s existing homes are taking an estimated 38 more days to sell this year as 34 percent more homes are listed for sale. ReportsOnHousing tracks homebuying patterns found in real estate broker networks: supply (active listings); year-to-date increase in supply; demand (new escrows in past 30 days); and “market time” (a measure of selling…
A photo of the Mary Andrews Clark Memorial building was number seven in the 1955-56 Los Angeles Times Know Your City photography series.
On Nov. 6, voters will weigh 11 ballot propositions that, on their face, sound no more or less crazy than usual for a California ballot. There is a seemingly obligatory fight about the gas tax and four (!) propositions about housing. Other high-stakes proposals would put money toward water conservation and hospital construction. But, as…
By MATTHEW LEE and ZEKE MILLER WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is leaving the administration at the end of the year. Trump spoke as he and Haley met in the Oval Office, shortly after word came of her plans to resign. He called Haley a “very special” person,…
If history shows anything about midterm elections, it’s that the sitting president’s political party often – but not always – has a tough night. In 35 out of 38 midterm elections held since the end of the Civil War the president’s party has lost seats in the House, according to the Cook Political Report. And while…
