By CHAD DAY, MATTHEW BARAKAT and ERIC TUCKER | Associated Press ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The star witness in Paul Manafort’s financial fraud trial says the former Trump campaign chairman told him to be truthful about offshore shell companies and bank accounts during a 2014 interview with the FBI. Rick Gates said under questioning from Manafort’s…

After a few years of sharp double-digit increases, the city of Los Angeles saw hate crimes decline by 6.8 percent in the first half of 2018, according the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino. However, violent hate crimes bucked that overall drop, rising 8.3 percent, increasing from…

Californians spend a lot of time on the road, especially in the summer when we set out on vacation or head to the beach. But how well do you know those roads you traverse? Here’s a look at some of the more visible changes along California’s estimated 394,608 miles of lanes. Marking the lines You…

Albert Fathergill, 9, kisses his mother Ethel Fathergill as 19 members of the Los Angeles Times Boys Club leave for summer camp.

Scores of families gathered at Laguna Niguel Elementary to join the fun for the 7th annual National Night Out. The event was sponsored by the Orange County Sheriff ’s Department Laguna Niguel Police Services which featured CSI and Bomb Squad displays, a mounted horse unit, and even a blood hound.  Other activities included booths from…

CLEVELAND NATIONAL FOREST — It was the moment they’d long feared: The fire came. Cabins dissolved into ash and ruins. The remnants of rural life – benches and beer cans and wood-burning stoves – lay charred among the soot and rubble. It was over quickly, in a matter of hours. But a day later, on…