Money for L.A. County voting machines ended up in bribery ‘slush fund,’ feds allege
An election technology firm allegedly overbilled Los Angeles County for voting machines used during the 2020 election and funneled the extra cash into a “slush fund” for bribing government officials,…
Will the Menendez brothers be freed? What to expect in parole hearings
More than 35 years after murdering their parents in a volley of shotgun blasts, brothers Erik and Lyle Menendez are the closest to freedom since they were arrested and sentenced…
Reading for pleasure drops 40% over last two decades, study says
Put down the book, pick up the phone. So it goes in the United States, where daily reading for pleasure has plummeted more than 40% among adults over the last…
How a strawberry delivery driver was caught in a fight between Newsom and Trump
The strawberry delivery driver was making his last drop-off in Little Tokyo, unloading nearly a dozen boxes onto the sidewalk outside the Japanese American National Museum. Inside the building, California…
‘Nobody wants to call LAPD anymore’: Replica gun killing draws outrage
Activists and family members of a man shot and killed by LAPD officers in Boyle Heights flooded a Police Commission meeting Tuesday to denounce the department’s handling of the incident.…
Inside the tragedy that silenced soul legend Marvin Gaye
By the time 44-year-old Marvin Gaye moved into the big, rambling house with his parents on South Gramercy Place, his cocaine habit was severe and his paranoia was deep. Enemies…
SoCal trio of weather hazards: Extreme heat, fire risk, thunderstorms
As Southern California braces for the most significant heat wave yet this year, officials warn that the dangerously hot temperatures expected at the end of the week are only one…
SoCal woman is discovered slain. Her children are recovered in Peru.
The body of a missing Southern California woman was found this weekend at the bottom of an embankment in the Angeles National Forest, according to authorities. Officials are now searching…
California plague case believed to be caused by South Lake Tahoe flea
A South Lake Tahoe resident has tested positive for the plague — yes, the same pest-transmitted disease estimated to have killed 25 million Europeans in the Middle Ages. It is…
Don’t eat these potentially radioactive shrimp, FDA warns
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning people to avoid eating certain raw frozen shrimp sold in Walmart stores as the agency investigates possible contamination by Cesium-137, a radioactive…