Los Angeles Unified Supt. Austin Beutner welcomed students and staff back to school Tuesday with a tour of the district that began hours before the first students arrived and was expected to end well after most of them had gone home. At 5 a.m., Beutner arrived at the Edward R. Roybal Learning Center,…
Clarence Sibsey sat alone at a table in the Twin Pine Casino evacuation center, tired and dejected. Once again, a fire was threatening his community and he had to leave home. Two years ago, he fled the massive Valley fire. Now he had been driven away by the Mendocino Complex fire, which at more…
The nation’s second-largest school system kicks off a fresh year Tuesday with dozens of first-time programs to spur student achievement and recapture enrollment. But not everything new at L.A. Unified was planned, including recent leadership turnover at the top. As for details of plans to deal…
Allegations of police officer misconduct led prosecutors to throw out 19 convictions in a Bay Area suburb and exposed what could happen if California’s courts – and the public – actually knew what was in officers’ disciplinary files.
Firefighters were able to hold the Holy fire line overnight, keeping the wildfire’s burned acreage at 22,986 and containment at 59 percent, Cleveland National Forest officials announced on Twitter Tuesday. The fire, first sparked Aug. 6, allegedly by a suspected arsonist who is in custody, has been burning for more than a week and has…
SANTA ANA – A man was found shot to death after, police say, two men hopped into his truck while he was at a gas station early Tuesday morning, Aug. 14. The circumstances surrounding the killing were murky. It’s unclear if the suspects forced their way into the truck while the man was gassing up…
A fast-moving fire that ignited in the San Pasqual Valley area quickly prompted evacuations Monday afternoon, officials said. The fire was reported in the area of San Pasqual Road and Highway 78 about 2:50 p.m. The flames spread quickly and residents who live in the 14400 block of San Pasqual Valley…
DANA POINT — Robert Berry Sinclair, a highly decorated Marine Corps aviator who served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam, was celebrated during a burial at sea Monday, Aug. 13. Sinclair, of Dana Point, died July 14. He was 96. About 60 family members, friends and military veterans gathered aboard Dana Wharf’s Dana Pride,…
The proposed Clippers arena in Inglewood faces another lawsuit, this one claiming a pair of city-related boards violated state laws related to open meetings and California’s Environmental Quality Act. The lawsuit was filed Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court by Hermosa Beach-based law firm Chatten-Brown & Carstens, representing Inglewood Residents Against Takings and Evictions. According…
As four NASA astronauts took the stage at SpaceX headquarters on Monday, employees who gathered on the factory floor to greet them amid engine assemblies and giant rocket parts welcomed the crew with a roar. NASA astronaut’s Bob Behnken, Doug Hurley, Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover and Director of Crew Mission Management Benji Reed, and SpaceX…
