A judge overseeing the effort to reunify families at the border urged opposing attorneys to get moving on a solution that would allow all reunited children to pursue their own asylum claims rather than be immediately deported with their parents. In a court hearing here Friday, U.S. District Judge…
Last week, Yea Ji Sea packed her life into a Prius and began the long drive home from Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio to Los Angeles. Before starting out, she searched for information on the internet about immigration checkpoints. Instead of taking the shortest route home, she veered a couple hundred…
A special year ahead for football at Bellflower’s St. John Bosco High? Even for a school that’s won a national title and is accustomed to a lot of attention, that might be an understatement. St. John Bosco celebrates their first game in their new stadium 42-0 at halftime. @lbpt_sports pic.twitter.com/ssu0tQlGaN — Scott Varley (@VarleyPhoto) August…
Two Orange County GOP political hopefuls who recently failed to make the general election for a coastal Assembly seat want Orange County prosecutors to investigate whether a rival placed a decoy candidate in the contest to shape the results to his advantage. Greg Haskin and Long Pham, the third and fourth place finishers in the…
Some civil rights advocates called Friday for an independent criminal investigation into the improper recording of 1,079 telephone calls between Orange County jail inmates and their attorneys during the past three years. The recordings — dozens of which were accessed by law enforcement — appeared to be a felony violation of the attorney-client privilege under…
Before landing at the Coral Motel in Buena Park on June 1, Barbara Pincheira and Christopher Ramos sold drugs so they could take drugs, feeding a ferocious heroin habit that kept them living at the Santa Ana Civic Center for half a decade. They became friends and then a couple after meeting in the Plaza…
Ali Selva, 8, on the beach in Orange County. Ali stayed at a group home for the better part of a week after authorities learned her parents were treating her epilepsy with a cannabis-based oil. (Courtesy of Maria Selva) Maria and Joseph Selva hold a cellphone picture of their 8-year-old daughter Ali who was taken…
Ali Selva, 8, on the beach in Orange County. Ali stayed at a group home for the better part of a week after authorities learned her parents were treating her epilepsy with a cannabis-based oil. (Courtesy of Maria Selva) Maria and Joseph Selva hold a cellphone picture of their 8-year-old daughter Ali who was taken…
Where did the data come from? To report the story about California’s inheritance tax break, The Times obtained property inheritance transfers from Contra Costa, Los Angeles, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Benito, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Mateo, Solano and Sonoma counties. …
California suffered through its hottest July on record, while August has pushed sea-surface temperatures off the San Diego coast to all-time highs. Are these punishing summer heat waves the consequences of global warming or the result of familiar weather patterns? The answer, scientists say, is…
