Stanley Meisler dies at 85; veteran L.A. Times foreign correspondent wrote on war, art, civil rights

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Stanley Meisler dies at 85; veteran L.A. Times foreign correspondent wrote on war, art, civil rights

Stanley Meisler, a longtime foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and author of several books on foreign affairs and art — including a well-regarded history of the Peace Corps — died Sunday of cardiac arrest in Washington, D.C., said his wife, Elizabeth Fox. He was 85.

Meisler retired…

Santa Ana councilwoman claims symbolic victory in run-up to November O.C. supervisor race

Santa Ana Councilwoman Michele Martinez has won a symbolic victory over incumbent Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do as they both head to a November runoff for his 1st District seat.

After weeks of counting provisional ballots from the June 7 primary, Martinez gained 38.1% of the vote compared…

Pat Summitt, legendary Tennessee basketball coach, dies at 64

Pat Summitt, the farm girl from Tennessee who overcame self-consciousness and an overbearing father to become one of the greatest basketball coaches of any gender or generation, died Tuesday after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease, according to a statement from her son, Tyler Summitt. She…

Activists reveal more dark-money donors to campaigns against unions and schools-funding tax

The campaign for extending a schools tax on high-income Californians kicked off this week with the release of undisclosed donors involved in fighting against the levy when it last appeared on the ballot.

The new group, California Hedge Clippers, released the names Tuesday as part of a broader campaign to…

Laguna Beach cafe owners file countersuit against Muslim women who alleged discrimination

The owners of a Laguna Beach cafe have filed a countersuit against a group of women who allege they were targeted for being “visibly Muslim” and discriminated against because they were ordered to leave.

In the cross-complaint, filed last week in Orange County Superior Court, an attorney for the…

San Diego launches campaign to expose ‘Ugly Truth’ about sex trafficking and child exploitation

San Diego County officials on Monday launched a campaign intended to educate the public about sex trafficking and child exploitation.

Dubbed “The Ugly Truth,” the effort will use billboards; radio spots; videos to be played in elevators and at health clubs; and posters to be displayed at bus shelters…

Soldier honored with gravestone 50 years after his death in Vietnam

For decades after his death in the Vietnam War, Allan Altieri’s resting place lay bare, with no grave marker.

But on Friday, exactly half a century after he was killed, his family, friends and fellow soldiers gathered at the San Fernando Mission Cemetery to commemorate the installation of a new…

Tom Kelly dies at 88; broadcast USC football and basketball games for decades

Tom Kelly, a sports broadcaster who made USC football and basketball games “bigger than life” for more than four decades, died Monday in Encino of cancer. He was 88.

Kelly, a former football player, started calling USC football and basketball games on the radio in 1961 and later made the move to…

Palin and Carville spar over Trump, then a 10-year-old boy steals the show

Sarah Palin called it.

Just before leaving home for Politicon 2016, a gathering of mostly left-leaning political junkies in Pasadena, the former Alaska governor posted a note on Facebook saying she was heading for “the lion’s den” “to share some reality on behalf of Americans with righteous indignation.”

2 women, teenage boy found dead in Rancho Santa Fe home
Homicide detectives are investigating the death of two women and a teenager found dead in a Rancho Santa Fe home Monday, authorities said. The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department received a 911 call just before noon about a possible child abuse incident at the house on Via de la Valle near Paseo…

Parents of Navy SEAL file wrongful-death claim against parachute maker

The parents of a Navy SEAL killed in a June 2014 parachute training accident are suing the manufacturer alleging defective design, negligence and wrongful death, in a case that involves equipment in wide use by U.S. special-operations units.

A Navy investigation found that Chief Petty Officer Bradley…

‘We’re not the same as in 1945’: Activist tells the story of how her parents fought school segregation in California

Seven decades ago, Sylvia Mendez’s parents went to court to fight for her right to attend a predominantly white school in her Orange County neighborhood.

On a recent evening, she sat in a place of honor on the stage of a Boyle Heights school that bears their name.

As student mariachis in royal…

From living in cars to UC Davis – one student’s journey
The first car he slept in, when he was 6, was his mother’s white Cadillac, parked in South Los Angeles. Angel Macias, legs crossed, dozed upright in the back seat. His older brother, Armando, sat next to him, often against him, because he needed to stretch his legs to sleep. Their mother snoozed up…

Brush fire burning near Laguna Beach, closes Laguna Canyon Road and regional parks

Firefighters were battling a 35-acre brush fire in Laguna Canyon on Sunday that has snarled traffic and closed two parks.

The fire prompted the closure of Laguna Canyon Road between El Toro Road and Canyon Acres and was burning in an open space east of the city of Laguna Beach. Laguna Coast and…

At least five people stabbed at neo-Nazi event outside Capitol in Sacramento
At least five people were stabbed, with some injured critically, during clashes between rallying neo-Nazis and counter-protesters at the Capitol in Sacramento on Sunday, fire officials said. Five patients were transported to local hospitals with stab wounds, said Chris Harvey, public information…

Faced with harsh election rhetoric, Muslims and Latinos break bread in Orange County

The event had the look of feel-good cultural diplomacy. Rida Hamida, a Muslim of Syrian descent, led about 30 Latinos on a tour of Anaheim’s Little Arabia.

They cracked jokes, sipped Arabic coffee from tiny cups, asked about hookah bars, and broke bread – or sangak – over their cultural similarities…

The Vietnam warrior who wrote ‘Born on the Fourth of July’ recounts another fight

I don’t know how Ron Kovic does it.

Forty-eight years in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the chest down.

Forty-eight years of simple things being difficult, Vietnam still casting shadows.

And yet for Kovic there’s drive and determination, goals to meet and plans to keep.

After the war, he was so filled…

Three things to know about how L.A. schools are using your money

On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Unified School District approved $7.6 billion in spending for the upcoming fiscal year. But where does that money go, and who decides how to spend it? Here are a few things to know about the 2016-17 budget.

1. Most of the money goes to salaries and benefits

Most of the…

Feline fanciers on the prowl at CatConLA’s sophomore outing

The line of people waiting to enter CatConLA had wrapped around the corner by 10:15 a.m. Saturday, and few attendees were without cat-inspired attire – from simple cat ears to complete costumes.

Two floors of the Reef, a downtown exhibition space, were filled with vendors selling products a cat…

Post Orlando, O.C. gay parade draws huge support and shares message of unity

For Harriet and Jeremy Fain, going to a gay parade for the first time Saturday was the right thing to do.

The Orange County event was “cool, cozy and absolutely important for those of us who are allies to be visible — especially after Orlando,” Harriet Fain said.

She said the Florida mass shooting…

Wildfires across California consume nearly 60,000 acres

Six wildfires were burning across California on Saturday, consuming nearly 60,000 acres.

More than 4,500 firefighters were battling the fires, which stretched from the Klammath National Forest in Northern California to the Mexican border in San Diego County, according to the California Department…

110 Freeway reopened after closure due to police activity
All lanes of the 110 Freeway were temporarily closed Saturday afternoon due to police activity for about a half hour due to police activity nearby. According to the California Highway Patrol, the 110 south was closed at Hill Street and the southbound 110 at Stadium Way. The freeway was closed just…

Boy, 6, killed when refrigerator falls on him

A 6-year-old boy was killed when a refrigerator fell onto him from a pickup in Otay Mesa on Saturday afternoon, authorities said.

The death appeared accidental, but detectives from the San Diego Police Department’s child abuse unit were investigating, Officer Frank Cali said.

Police and paramedics…

Caltech glassblower’s retirement has scientists sighing

Hunkered down in the sub-basement of the Norman W. Church Laboratory for Chemical Biology, underneath a campus humming with quantum teleportation devices, gravity wave detectors and neural prosthetics, Rick Gerhart chipped away at a broken flask.

Blowtorch in hand, he pulled the softened glass…

Fast, deadly fire in Kern County is barely contained

LAKE ISABELLA, Calif. — Near this man-made lake about 45 miles northeast of Bakersfield, a 2-acre fire has grown to an inferno that stretches over 46 square miles, killing two people and destroying at least 100 homes and other structures.

The frantic effort to control the raging Erskine fire in…

After Orlando mass shooting, Orange County kicks off gay parade Saturday with tighter security

Just two weeks after a gunman shot 49 people dead and wounded 53 at an Orlando, Fla., gay nightclub, Orange County kicks off a gay parade with beefed-up security.

The parade will be the highlight of O.C. Pride Week, with at least 30 groups marching along a route in Santa Ana just short of a mile,…

San Diego’s streets are about to become a lot more bike-friendly

Cars will have to share downtown San Diego’s streets much more with bicyclists and pedestrians under an ambitious plan that aims to boost safety and fight climate change.

The proposal, which the City Council unanimously approved this week, would transform many vehicle lanes and some on-street parking…

Farmers Insurance will pay a high price for discriminating against its female attorneys

Federal District Judge Lucy Koh had some very picky questions Thursday about terminology used in a multimillion-dollar settlement hammered out between Farmers Insurance and the hundreds of female attorneys it has underpaid for years.

I wasn’t expecting fireworks, exactly, but I thought things would…

Bluegrass music patriarch Ralph Stanley dies at 89

Ralph Stanley, a patriarch of Appalachian music who with his brother Carter helped expand and popularize the genre that became known as bluegrass, died Thursday. He was 89.

Stanley died at his home in Sandy Ridge, Va., because of difficulties from skin cancer, publicist Kirt Webster said.

Stanley…

Military contractor pleads guilty in ‘Fat Leonard’ bribery scandal

A former contracting official with the Navy who took hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash from Malaysian businessman Leonard Glenn “Fat Leonard” Francis pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiracy and bribery charges.

Paul Simpkins, 62, admitted accepting cash and other gifts from Francis — the owner…

Multiple structures burning in fast-moving brush fire in Kern County
An estimated 50 to 60 structures have been burned in a fast-moving brush fire that broke out Thursday afternoon in Kern County, according to the local fire department. The Erskine fire was burning off Erskine Creek Road just south of Highway 178, near Lake Isabella in Squirrel Valley, said a spokesperson…

Watch: News conference regarding oil spill
Live updates: Oil spill in Ventura County June 23, 2016, 2:57 p.m. An oil spill that may have released more than 29,000 gallons of crude into a grassy canyon in Ventura County did not reach the beach or trigger evacuations, Ventura County fire officials say. Assessments of damage and air quality…

Air quality and damage assessment underway at Ventura spill site
Live updates: Oil spill in Ventura County June 23, 2016, 2:57 p.m. An oil spill that may have released more than 29,000 gallons of crude into a grassy canyon in Ventura County did not reach the beach or trigger evacuations, Ventura County fire officials say. Assessments of damage and air quality…

Ventura spill is ‘another grim example’ of need to move pipelines from coast, groups says
Live updates: Oil spill in Ventura County June 23, 2016, 12:26 p.m. Ventura County firefighters are racing to stop thousands of gallons of crude oil from flowing into the ocean after a leak was spotted at Prince Barranca valley, officials said. The spill is estimated to involve 700 barrels. There…

Scenes from the Ventura oil spill
Live updates: Oil spill in Ventura County June 23, 2016, 12:26 p.m. Ventura County firefighters are racing to stop thousands of gallons of crude oil from flowing into the ocean after a leak was spotted at Prince Barranca valley, officials said. The spill is estimated to involve 700 barrels. There…

UC Irvine GOP club loses room-booking privileges over policy violation at Milo Yiannopoulos event

After presenting an event featuring conservative gay guest speaker Milo Yiannopoulos, a UC Irvine Republican club was told its privilege to book event space through the school’s Student Center would be temporarily revoked over a policy issue regarding private security.

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