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Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today announced his selection of Douglas Guthrie to become the new general manager of the city’s Housing Department. Guthrie, a former top official at the Chicago Housing Authority, most recently worked with private ventures focused...
An Orange County businessman donated $10,000 today to Pilgrim Community Church in South Los Angeles, where gusty winds blew a 90-foot pine tree onto the roof of the small church, destroying the building. The donation was delivered about 11 a.m....
Roman Polanski’s Los Angeles legal team sought to distance the jailed filmmaker today from French attorneys who have given media interviews on behalf of the Academy Award winner. The comments to the media “were not authorized by Mr. Polanski. The...
A judge today dismissed a discrimination lawsuit against Miley Cyrus that argued that Asians were harmed by a photo that showed the teen idol and her friends pulling back their eyelids. The novel legal claim was filed by Lucie J....
A woman was fatally struck by a northbound Metro Blue Line train this afternoon in Watts. The incident occurred about 1:20 p.m. when the woman, in her mid-50s, was walking eastbound along the tracks near 115th Street. The woman died...
Times business columnist Michael Hiltzik took measure of California's system for funding education this week and found it lacking … to put it mildly. Here's an excerpt from Thursday's column: Anyone who has spent time in or around government, from...
A judge denied a request today to reduce the death sentence for a man convicted of murdering two people and attempting to murder two others in a South Los Angeles housing project. Defendant Kai Harris, 32, along with another man,...
California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown announced today that he is investigating whether four individuals defrauded more than 30 African American churches in Southern California by forcing them to pay thousands of dollars for substandard computer kiosks, which the churches were...
A Mexican teenager pleaded guilty to fatally shooting a U.S. Border Patrol agent last summer while attempting to rob him of government property in a remote area east of San Diego, according to a plea agreement announced today. The suspect,...
Michael Jackson's doctor bought powerful anesthetic a month before singer's death, court records say
Michael Jackson’s personal physician purchased five bottles of the powerful anesthetic that killed the singer from a Las Vegas pharmacy the month before his death, according to court documents unsealed today. Dr. Conrad Murray acknowledged giving Jackson the drug propofol...
Police are investigating the death this morning of an elderly man who fell from his 10th-story apartment in the Alexandria Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Officers called to the 500 block of South Spring Street about 5:30 a.m. initially investigated...
Police are asking for the public’s help today in solving three separate murders in south Los Angeles County. One person was killed and two wounded about 11:30 p.m. Thursday in a shooting outside a liquor store in the 3600 block...
Good morning from the City Desk, where we're staring at mounds of traditional Friday morning doughnuts. Some California stories from today's paper to boost your caloric intake: Tighter drug-abuse rules: California is cracking down on health professionals who abuse drugs,...
More than 27 years after Hazel Hughes' body was found by her nephew inside her Koreatown apartment, Los Angeles cold-case detectives have arrested a suspect for capital murder. Victor Alvarez was arrested and charged earlier this month for the Aug....
The folks behind Pasadena’s 18-foot-high, fork-in-the-road street sculpture are at it again. This time, they plan to use the giant utensil for a food drive. From 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, volunteers will collect nonperishable food items...
A 39-year-old Thousand Oaks man has been arrested for reportedly paying teens to spit in his face, slap him and yell profanities at him, a spokesman for the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department said today. Charles Hersel, who was arrested on...
Parts of the eastbound 91 Freeway near the Orange and Riverside county border will be closed early next week while some lanes are restriped to accommodate construction. The closures will occur on the express lanes and the regular lanes from...
Police are seeking a man who attempted to rape a jogger in Thousand Oaks. A woman was running on the night of Nov. 6 near Northwood Place and Maybury Court when a man pushed her into some bushes, said Capt....
Metro Blue Line passengers will experience delays today and this weekend as crews install tracks that will connect the Blue Line and the Expo Line. Delays of up to 40 minutes between Washington Station and 7th Street/Metro Center are expected...
Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown is scheduled to announce this morning that his office is launching an investigation into an alleged scam aimed at dozens of African American churches in Southern California. According to preliminary information released by Brown’s office, the...
An attorney for Roman Polanski said the famed director has been punished enough for having sex with a 13-year-old girl more than three decades ago, offering clues as to how he might fight extradition to the United States. Herve Temime,...
Nearly three months after the Station wildfire turned into the biggest blaze in L.A. County history, killing two firefighters, investigators say they don’t have the necessary evidence to arrest anyone for the arson. Sheriff’s homicide detectives have questioned a man...
The first of three new long-term care facilities for veterans in California will open today in Lancaster, filling what officials say is a pressing need for basic care and assistance for military veterans. The other facilities will open next month...
A 65-year-old woman died today after a fire broke out at a Van Nuys apartment building, authorities said. One of the engine companies at the neighborhood fire station, which was several blocks away, had been shut down because of budget...
The trial of a former San Francisco Bay Area transit officer who was videotaped shooting an unarmed man in a New Year's Day confrontation will be moved to Los Angeles County because of intense media coverage, the Associated Press is...
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