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- College admissions cheating scandal: Here is everyone charged in the case
Tuesday - 03/12/2019 - 03:40 PMThey include Hollywood actresses, former CEOs, a famed parenting book writer, a fashion icon, a Newport Beach college counselor and university athletic officials.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - MWD vote moves Colorado River drought plan forward
Tuesday - 03/12/2019 - 04:25 PMThe Metropolitan Water District of Southern California moved Tuesday to seal California’s participation in a landmark Colorado River drought management plan over the objections of the river’s largest user. In agreeing to shoulder more of California’s future delivery cuts to prevent Lake Mead from...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - College admissions and testing fraud scheme: Charging document
Tuesday - 03/12/2019 - 01:21 PMFederal prosecutors on Tuesday indicted dozens of people — including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin — in connection with an elaborate scheme aimed at getting students into elite colleges.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- ‘Coffee and pretty much a peep show in our town’: Northern California city battles a risque cafe
Tuesday - 03/12/2019 - 08:00 AMThe town of American Canyon, population about 20,000, is trying to shut down a coffee shop by asking the kind of oddly philosophical question you might contemplate while nursing a cup of joe: Is a cafe still just a cafe if the baristas are wearing close to nothing?More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Slain USC student was a gun control advocate who believed music could ‘heal the world’
Tuesday - 03/12/2019 - 06:00 AMWhen Alinzia Davenport recalls her godbrother as a little boy, a vivid image comes to mind: a tiny Victor McElhaney in the middle of a drum circle led by older men, keeping up with the beat on his bongos.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Killing of USC music student appears to be random robbery, LAPD says
Monday - 03/11/2019 - 05:55 PMAuthorities said the killing of a USC music student near campus Sunday morning appears to be a random robbery. Victor McElhaney, who was studying at USC’s Thornton School of Music, was fatally shot at the corner of Maple Avenue and Adams Boulevard shortly after midnight.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- From the Archives: After the 1933 Long Beach quake, students attend school in tents
Monday - 03/11/2019 - 05:00 AMThe March 10, 1933, Long Beach earthquake destroyed numerous schools. During rebuilding, many school classrooms were inside canvas tents.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - For these California fire survivors, hope grows amid the ashes of Paradise
Sunday - 03/10/2019 - 12:00 PMInside the Brennans’ house on the northern edge of town, it’s almost like the fire never happened. There’s electricity, filtered water and satellite TV. The mail comes every day but Sunday, and the garbage is picked up every week.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- After more than 140 years, a massive fig tree gracing the plaza where Los Angeles was founded collapses
Saturday - 03/09/2019 - 08:00 AMThey were doing the line dance when what sounded like firecrackers split the air. Because the sound was to be expected at a Chinese lantern festival, no one immediately noticed the demise of a fig tree that for 144 years had watched skyscrapers built around it and a freeway carved out beside it;...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Repenning moves into second place as count continues for L.A. school board seat
Friday - 03/08/2019 - 09:20 PMHeather Repenning edged into second place Friday in the contest for a pivotal seat on the Los Angeles Board of Education. Second place matters because the top two finishers will be on the ballot in a May 14 runoff.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Who is Rick Singer? Newport Beach businessman bribed schools to rig test scores, U.S. says
Tuesday - 03/12/2019 - 03:55 PMWilliam “Rick” Singer promised to help high school students get into elite colleges that seemed unattainable given their grades and test scores. He operated out of a $1.5-million Mediterranean-style home in Newport Beach.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Inside the audacious scheme to get kids of the rich and famous into elite colleges
Tuesday - 03/12/2019 - 02:40 PMFederal prosecutors say their investigation dubbed Operation Varsity Blues blows the lid off an audacious college admissions fraud scheme aimed at getting the children of the rich and powerful into elite universities.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- A woman’s past abuse is triggered by a TSA pat-down at LAX. She wants some answers
Tuesday - 03/12/2019 - 08:00 AMIt was the end of an uneventful business trip. Tracie Stafford, who teaches communications skills to corporate and political clients all over the country, arrived at Los Angeles International Airport around 9 p.m.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Tropical jellyfish, eels and sea butterflies are invading California’s coast, thanks to a ‘warm-water blob’
Tuesday - 03/12/2019 - 06:30 AMMarine biologist Jacqueline Sones was strolling along a beach near this Northern California fishing village one foggy summer morning when she spotted an unfamiliar jellyfish bobbing in the surf. Her curiosity turned to shock, however, when she opened a field guide and identified the creature with...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Accidental alcohol poisoning caused death of UC Irvine student after party, coroner says
Monday - 03/11/2019 - 07:40 PMThe death of a UC Irvine freshman after an off-campus party in January was caused by accidental alcohol poisoning, the Orange County coroner’s office said Monday. Noah Domingo, 18, of La Crescenta died around 3:30 a.m.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Mob boss Carmine 'The Snake' Persico dies while serving 139-year prison sentence
Monday - 03/11/2019 - 06:15 PMThe longtime boss of the infamous Colombo crime family, Carmine "The Snake" Persico, has died at age 85 while serving a 139-year prison sentence. Persico died Thursday at the Duke University Medical Center, said his attorney, Benson Weintraub.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- 405 Freeway in Sherman Oaks closed after liquid propane tanker truck overturns
Sunday - 03/10/2019 - 03:25 PMTraffic lanes in both directions of the 405 Freeway in the San Fernando Valley remain closed Sunday hours after a tanker truck hauling 9,400 gallons of liquid propane flipped over on its side, authorities said.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Earthquake: Magnitude 3.1 quake strikes off Northern California coast
Saturday - 03/09/2019 - 06:42 PMA shallow magnitude 3.1 earthquake was reported Saturday afternoon about 125 miles west of Eureka, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 12:09 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 6.2 miles.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- In court loss for Trump, U.S. judge to oversee more family-separation cases
Friday - 03/08/2019 - 10:05 PMA San Diego federal judge has expanded his authority and will now oversee the cases of potentially thousands of additional children who were separated from their families at the border during the Trump administration.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- ‘Airwolf’ actor Jan-Michael Vincent dies; career derailed by drugs and alcohol
Friday - 03/08/2019 - 09:09 PMJan-Michael Vincent, a golden boy of Hollywood action films in the 1970s who starred in the mid-1980s TV adventure series “Airwolf” but saw his career crater amid drug and alcohol addiction, has died in Asheville, N.C.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Previously secret LAPD discipline records reveal lying, sexual misconduct by officers
Tuesday - 03/12/2019 - 03:55 PMOne Los Angeles police officer was fired for sexual misconduct after a woman accused him of raping her outside a Hollywood apartment complex. Another lawman was fired for perjury after dash camera video contradicted his testimony in a South L.A.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- College admissions and testing fraud scheme: Indictment
Tuesday - 03/12/2019 - 01:21 PMDozens of individuals were allegedly involved in a nationwide conspiracy that facilitated cheating on college entrance exams and the admission of students to elite universities as purported athletic recruits. They were arrested by federal agents in multiple states and charged in documents unsealed...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hollywood actresses among those named in massive college admissions fraud case
Tuesday - 03/12/2019 - 11:15 AMFederal prosecutors on Tuesday indicted dozens of people — including two Hollywood actresses — in connection with an elaborate scheme aimed at getting students into elite colleges. According to court records, the scheme involved cheating on college entrance examines for such elite schools as Yale,...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - From the Archives: St. Vincent de Paul Los Angeles Orphanage
Tuesday - 03/12/2019 - 05:00 AMThe five-story Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul Los Angeles Orphanage in Boyle Heights was used from 1892-1953.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pilot lived a mysterious double life. Then a plane crash exposed aliases, falsehoods and questions
Tuesday - 03/12/2019 - 06:00 AMJordan Aaron was the president of a Carson City sushi restaurant who once ran for justice of the peace in Arizona. Antonio Pastini was the brash ex-Chicago cop who befriended a brothel mogul and spun yarns of a bare-knuckled youth in the Windy City that read like a cross between “Goodfellas” and...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Slain USC music student Victor McElhaney was a ‘bright light,’ dedicated to helping others
Monday - 03/11/2019 - 12:10 PMVictor McElhaney was studying music at USC, but his mother said his heart was in his hometown of Oakland. “Victor was a son of Oakland,” Oakland Councilwoman Lynette Gibson McElhaney said in a statement.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Girl found dead in duffel bag identified as 9-year-old Trinity Love Jones
Monday - 03/11/2019 - 03:28 AMA young girl found dead inside a duffel bag last week near a trail in Hacienda Heights has been identified as Trinity Love Jones, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- A charter school report card: They cause problems. But for many families they’re the solution.
Saturday - 03/09/2019 - 02:10 PMEcho Park resident Jackie Goldberg, a grandmother, great aunt and candidate for school board, says if she had school-age children, she would not send them to a charter school. Not even the one in her neighborhood that has been called one of the best in California.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Immigrant detention center in Bakersfield, thought to be set to close, will stay open
Saturday - 03/09/2019 - 07:00 AMAn immigration detention facility in Bakersfield that was expected to close later this month will remain open for another year, according to a federal contract made public this week. On Tuesday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement cited “unusual and compelling urgency” in a notice explaining its...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Earthquake: 3.2 quake strikes near Caldwell Pines, Calif.
Friday - 03/08/2019 - 06:20 PMA shallow magnitude 3.2 earthquake was reported Friday afternoon one mile from Caldwell Pines, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 2:55 p.m. Pacific time at a depth of 0.6 miles.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share