As a new member of the civilian board that oversees the Los Angeles Police Department, Matt Johnson wanted to reduce the number of police shootings. The fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., in August 2014 had recently shaken the country, giving rise to the Black…
Two weeks after a gunman in Parkland, Fla., zigzagged from one classroom to another in his former high school, killing 17 people, a Beverly Hills High employee dialed 911 to report a stranger mumbling to himself and following her as she left campus. Police confiscated a loaded handgun in the man’s…
One thing I never understood about Meg Shimatsu was how she kept her spirits up, given her health problems and her circumstances. When I wrote about the former legal secretary a little over a year ago, she was living in a 1990 Toyota Corolla but figured things could be worse, given how many people…
Instead of taking the Blue Line to Long Beach, how about the A Train? Or how about catching the No. 5 line to Santa Monica Pier? With an unprecedented number of rail and bus projects planned — and a dwindling number of hues to choose from — Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials are considering…
Christine Blasey Ford, the Northern California psychology professor who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault when they were both teenagers, is described by colleagues as a rigorous statistician who doesn’t fudge the data or stray from the facts. One psychiatrist who…
Physicist Virginia Carter left the lab to work for Norman Lear’s production company.
The short, heroic life of the mountain lion known as M86 offers a promise of what could be — and, quite possibly, what must come to pass if the cougars of the Santa Ana Mountains are to survive. Winston Vickers, a veterinarian at the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center and leading researcher and expert of…
Wildfires, like the Holy fire that torched 26,000 acres of the Santa Ana Mountains area in August, don’t typically pose a significant threat to cougars, expert sprinters as well as long-distance travelers who are skilled at escaping such threats. But one study of Southern California cougars — also known as mountain lions and pumas —…
Did you know adult cougars need to eat a deer about every 16 days? And that a mother with three cubs will need a deer every nine days? And if it has a running start, a mountain lion can jump 45 feet in a single leap. Here are some more facts you might not know about…
A car that crashed and burst into flames early Wednesday, Sept. 19, may have been in a street race, authorities said. When firefighters arrived to the 12:20 a.m. call, in the 2060 block of South Ritchey Street, they found the white sedan fully engulfed in flames, said Capt. Erik Miranda of the Orange County Fire…
