The Los Angeles County Office of Education has placed the Los Angeles Unified School District under heightened fiscal oversight after determining the nation’s second-largest school district may be unable to meet its financial obligations in the 2027-28 and 2028-29 fiscal …
LA County education officials place LAUSD under heightened fiscal oversight Read MoreBoyle Heights residents are expected to pack a local middle school Thursday night to hear from elected officials, experts and representatives from Lineage Logistics about the status of recovery efforts from the weeklong fire at Lineage’s cold-storage warehouse. Mayor Karen …
Neighbors expected to confront officials with Boyle Heights fire-cleanup questions Read MoreWe’ve been playing a tasty game of Musical Dumplings in downtown Glendale, with the Singapore-based chain Paradise Dynasty — famous for its rainbow dumplings — replacing Din Tai Fung in The Americana at Brand. And Din Tai Fung moving a …
Dumplings are a delight at this Glendale restaurant Read MoreBy KIMBERLEE KRUESI and MEG KINNARD SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — Graham Platner said Wednesday that he plans to withdraw from the U.S. Senate race in Maine after facing an allegation of sexual assault, shuttering an insurgent campaign that had withstood …
Democrat Graham Platner says he plans to withdraw from Maine Senate race after sexual assault claim Read MoreLos funcionarios de salud estatales están advirtiendo al público sobre un aumento en el número de casos de la enfermedad intestinal conocida como ciclosporiasis, conocida por su síntoma de “diarrea explosiva”, tras un brote aún mayor en Michigan. El Departamento …
Advierten sobre ‘diarrea explosiva’ causada por frutas y verduras contaminadas Read MoreChicago rapper Chief Keef will launch his “Chief Keef Live” tour from Chicago in September with a homecoming show at Northerly Island. The announcement comes on the heels of an electrifying red-light-washed performance at Summer Smash weeks ago in Bridgeview. …
Chief Keef to launch 19-date tour with September hometown performance at Northerly Island Read MoreAn 8-year-old girl was fatally struck by lightning in LaSalle County on Friday evening during a storm, officials announced. The girl was in the backyard of her home in Serena about 70 miles southwest of Chicago, Friday evening when it …
Girl, 8, fatally struck by lightning during storm in LaSalle County Read MoreAlmost 30 years on from her two-year stay in a California redwood, environmental activist Julia “Butterfly” Hill looked up with pride Wednesday, July 8, as Pasadena’s next generation continued the fight to preserve trees. Hill, along with fellow tree-sitter and …
Activist Julia ‘Butterfly’ Hill visits Pasadena with a message: ‘Stand strong’ against PUSD tree removals Read MoreBy MEGAN JANETSKY MEXICO CITY (AP) — The bombs started raining down from cartel drones at 6 a.m. on Wednesday, just as the sun crested over the mountains of central Mexico. The cluster of rural communities known as Guajes de …
A Mexican village warned of a cartel offensive during the World Cup. Then the drone attacks began Read MoreSouthern California readers have another reason to head to the bookstore. In fact, they have 13 reasons. Next weekend, Friday through Sunday, July 24-26, the inaugural Los Angeles Indie Book Crawl will encourage readers to visit 13 area independent stores …
13 bookstores kick off first-ever Los Angeles Indie Book Crawl July 24-26 Read MoreARLINGTON, Texas — Now that Mike Trout is back in the Angels’ lineup, the next project is to figure out a way to keep him there. Trout, who was activated on Wednesday after missing 17 games because of a hamstring …
Mike Trout returns to Angels’ lineup, plans to keep playing center field regularly Read MoreRhonda Stivers always loved coffee. As an international flight attendant, the native Chicagoan would frequent coffee shops around the world. And she purchased a bright-red espresso machine, her first, in 1976. By 1985, she convinced her then-husband, Greg Stivers, to …
Looking for coffee at the Obama Presidential Center? The ’44 Reserve’ blend has 40-year Chicago legacy Read MoreDEAR ABBY: I have been married to my wife for three years. She asked me to fix her old computer. As I was doing that, I saw emails from her ex, “Doug,” dated a few months before our wedding. They …
Dear Abby: Computer repair leads to upsetting discovery Read MoreAs a father of three Chicago Public Schools students, I was encouraged to read that CPS will not reduce instructional time or eliminate Safe Passage as it works to close a $732 million budget gap. Those are the right priorities. …
CPS parents are still waiting for state to properly fund schools Read MoreYou don’t have to go entirely Scandinavian in your approach to how best to treat incarcerated Californians to believe that rehabilitative programs for prisoners are a good idea, as the vast majority of them will join the rest of us …
Editorial: Don’t cut access to rehabilitation for California prisoners Read MoreNina Raj, of the Altadena Seed Library, sits on stumps of an Aleppo pine to stop a tree trimming contractor from fully taking down the tree at Pasadena Unified School District’s headquarters on Tuesday, June 16, 2026. PUSD’s plan to …
Pasadena Unified says efforts to stop tree removals could delay ‘fully restored’ campuses by start of school year Read MoreA drone hit a Los Angeles police helicopter as firefighters fought a brush fire near the Encino Reservoir on Tuesday afternoon, July 7, authorities said. The drone struck the LAPD helicopter near Reseda Boulevard and the 101 Freeway around 3 …
Drone hits police helicopter as fire crews fight Encino brush fire, forcing emergency landing Read MoreLos Angeles County public health officials announced Wednesday that a traveler with measles may have exposed people to the virus at LAX and aboard a rental car shuttle after arriving in Southern California last week. The traveler arrived aboard British …
Traveler with measles arrives at LAX, takes rental car shuttle Read MoreWhen lawyers in court seek remedies that amount to a thorough carpet bombing of the defendant, it is natural to ask whether such remedies are proportional to the offenses alleged. The question quickly emerges, almost compelling an answer, in an …
The trillion-dollar social media lawsuit against Meta doesn’t add up Read MoreAfter working for years in the pharmaceutical industry, Joseph Dominguez enjoyed the freedom to take on scientific research he found in an academic institution that had no commercial ties. Dominguez finished his Ph.D. earlier this year after studying the role …
‘Shell-shocked’ Chicago scientists raise alarm about federal overhaul of research grant funding Read More