Los Angeles: Local News from the LA Times

Loyola Marymount’s ‘Trump’ wall sparks strong feelings on campus

Diana Delgado Cornejo, now 21 and about to graduate from Loyola Marymount University, says her father delivered the shocking news to her about 10 years ago.

The family had no papers.

“We were in the car, and I started crying,” she said. “I’d heard about all the scary illegals and I thought, ‘Oh…

America’s high school seniors’ reading and math scores have hit a wall

America’s high school seniors’ reading and math test scores are barely holding steady or slumping, according to national standardized test results released late Tuesday.

Between 2013 and 2015, on average, students dropped slightly in math and held steady in reading.

The National Assessment of Educational…

Stepfather pleads not guilty to killing 2-year-old boy in 2002

The stepfather of Jahi Turner — a 2-year-old boy who went missing in 2002 — made his first court appearance Tuesday in San Diego, where he faces charges of murder and felony child abuse resulting in death.

Tieray Jones, 37, pleaded not guilty to the charges, which carry a possible sentence of 25…

Pay phones are relics, but there’s still demand for them

Pay phones, those relics of a not-so-distant past, remain hidden among us, and many of them still work just fine.

They are quickly becoming a rare sight: Statewide, the number of pay phones has decreased by more than 70% since 2007. But there are still thousands left.

In California, there were…

Pay phones are relics, but there’s still demand for them

Pay phones, those relics of a not-so-distant past, remain hidden among us, and many of them still work just fine.

They are quickly becoming a rare sight: Statewide, the number of pay phones has decreased by more than 70% since 2007. But there are still thousands left.

In California, there were…

Ex-San Diego officer says department fired him for speaking up about misuse of federal grant

A former San Diego police officer has accused the department of firing him for refusing to keep quiet about the misuse of federal grant proceeds and the improper use of satellite phones by Mayor Kevin Faulconer and Chief Shelley Zimmerman.

Shannon Hart, a 16-year veteran, is seeking unspecified…

Assistant sheriff is stepping down after overseeing major changes in L.A. County jails

The enormousness of the task facing Terri McDonald was clear.

A veteran of the state prisons, she had been brought in to turn around a Los Angeles County jail system reeling from allegations of mismanagement and abuse.

Inmates were complaining of rampant brutality by guards. An FBI investigation…

Reviving color codes to measure border security would be a ‘disaster,’ experts tell Homeland Security

Five years ago, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security dropped its color-coded terror threat index developed after the 9/11 attacks amid widespread confusion and ridicule. So what did it do when tasked by Secretary Jeh Johnson in 2014 to measure security along the country’s borders?

Agency staff…

Forty-five years ago, peace, love and miscalculation in Laguna Canyon

It was billed as a one-day event of peace, love and music, but after three days, it turned out to be much bigger than expected.

An estimated 25,000 people gathered in a field of sycamore trees in Laguna Canyon for what was known as the Christmas Happening.

Despite massive traffic jams, chilly night…

Earthquake: 3.0 quake strikes near Running Springs

A shallow magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Tuesday morning six miles from Running Springs, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 1:07 a.m. PDT at a depth of 0.6 miles.

According to the USGS, the epicenter was eight miles from Lake Arrowhead, 10 miles from…

L.A. artwork in Owens Valley could be a watershed in conciliation

Los Angeles insists that it had the best of intentions as it erected the monument of granite and sculpted earth that is now rising from a dry bed of Owens Lake 200 miles to the north.

Department of Water and Power officials saw it as a gesture of reconciliation for taking the region’s water more…

‘Me and Mrs. Jones’ singer Billy Paul dead at age 80

Billy Paul, a jazz and soul singer best known for the No. 1 hit ballad and “Philadelphia Soul” classic “Me and Mrs. Jones,” died Sunday. Paul, whose career spanned more than 60 years, died at his home in Blackwood, N.J., his co-manager, Beverly Gay, told the Associated Press. Paul, 80, had been…

Earthquake: 3.4 quake strikes near McKinleyville

A shallow magnitude 3.4 earthquake was reported Monday morning a mile from McKinleyville, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 5:29 a.m. PDT at a depth of 11.8 miles.

According to the USGS, the epicenter was seven miles from Arcata, nine miles from Bayside, and…

Long Beach program prepares young autistic adults for jobs and self-sufficiency

Alexander Ryan considers himself ambitious, and he’s proud that he recently achieved a long-standing goal: landing a part-time job at T.J. Maxx and getting there on public transportation.

The 21-year-old from Encino credits his accomplishments, in part, to a program he became involved with soon…

Ex-L.A. City Atty. Trutanich failed to disclose witness ID while prosecuting a murder case, judge rules

In his campaigns to win elected office in Los Angeles, Carmen Trutanich billed himself as a fearless crime fighter.

To drive home the point, he talked frequently about a murder conviction he won as a young prosecutor against a South L.A. gang member who was sentenced to death for a 1982 killing.

With thinner crowds in a smaller space, Fiesta Broadway feels deeply diminished

It was 22 years ago that police officers fired rubber bullets into brawling crowds at Fiesta Broadway, bringing an early end to a packed festival that a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman would later say suffered from “too many people, not enough space.”

Today Fiesta Broadway, a Cinco de Mayo…

Solar-powered plane lands in Mountain View after 3-day Pacific flight

A solar-powered airplane landed in California on Saturday, completing a risky, three-day flight across the Pacific Ocean as part of its journey around the world.

Pilot Bertrand Piccard landed the Solar Impulse 2 in Mountain View, in the Silicon Valley south of San Francisco, at 11:45 p.m. following…

With El Niño danger passed, focus shifts on homeless river dwellers

Hidden in the brush of the Santa Fe Dam basin on the San Gabriel River, the homeless camp was littered with heaps of broken furniture, disgorged computers, bicycle frames, televisions, disassembled motorcycles, pieces of exercise machines, rotting food, empty containers and half-buried clothes.

Looking for answers but getting sandbagged about billionaire’s Martins Beach property

I finally got the go-ahead early last week. Silicon Valley billionaire Vinod Khosla was willing to talk to me about why he’s been fighting for six years to keep the public off its own beach near Half Moon Bay.

I had plenty of questions.

Khosla, a co-founder of technology giant Sun Microsystems…

Fiesta Broadway lives on as the street slowly loses its Latino heart

A generation ago, when organizers chose Broadway for their Fiesta Broadway, the street was the bustling, throbbing heart of a Latino shopping district.

The festival featured artists such as the late ranchera singer Lola Beltran, salsa king Willy Chirino and mariachis, whose songs could be the daily…

L.A. agrees to return tiny houses seized from homeless people

Los Angeles has agreed to return tiny houses that police and sanitation workers impounded from homeless people, but the mayor’s office has not endorsed a suggestion to place a village of tiny houses on city land, a spokeswoman said.

Elvis Summers, who reportedly built and distributed 37 brightly…

Prince, master of rock, soul, pop and funk, dies at 57

At the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in 2004, Prince walked on stage with fellow rock legends Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and others to pay tribute to the late George Harrison with a cover of the Beatles’ “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.”Dressed in a red hat and matching shirt unbuttoned…

USC violated labor rules by interfering with union vote, federal report says

USC officials violated federal labor rules by interfering with a high-profile vote to decide whether hundreds of its faculty members should form a union, according to a stinging report from the National Labor Relations Board that calls for a new election.

The report says USC undermined the possibility…

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