LAUSD Supt. John Deasy's plan to give an iPad to every student has been ridiculed by the teachers union, press and some school board members as a costly and inept effort to bridge an illusory "digital divide" in a city where even the poor are awash in personal devices. Unanimously......
The story that distraught Maria Mendez told doctors and detectives at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center seven years ago has never varied, not even on the day she rejected a chance at probation by refusing to say she'd killed her grandson. Shortly before Christmas 2006, as she told authorities, one moment her......
See also: Before/After Photos of Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Area Devastation Absurd, unnecessary social engineering and possibly illegal environmental tactics — that's what some activists and politicians are calling the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' surprise destruction before Christmas of more than 40 acres of prime wildlife and vegetative habitat five......
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ann I. Jones wasn't buying the state Department of Fish and Game's conclusion that a plan to preserve the endangered San Fernando Valley spineflower would work just fine once Newhall Land and Farming Co. built its master-planned suburb for 60,000 people off the I-5 near......
Read responses from Darryl Holter and Geragos & Geragos representing Rhea Chung. Three years ago, beautiful Rhea Chung was a 39-year-old secretary when her boss, Los Angeles Trade-Technical College president Roland "Chip" Chapdelaine, promoted her to run the college foundation -- a modest nonprofit that gives low-income trade school students......
Gary Woodford and his buddies left tiny Girard in northern Ohio for the City of Angels 30 years ago, chasing the California dream. Woodford, a well-liked, athletic, curly-haired young man, had just learned that he was color-blind and wouldn't be able to follow his chosen career as a pilot. But......
There's plenty in the two-decades-long relationship between term-limited-out Los Angeles City Councilman Richard Alarcon and his northeast San Fernando Valley constituents that a political analyst might find dysfunctional. As popular as term limits are among voters, who say they want fresh "citizen legislators" and not career politicians, voters have been......
When Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa gave Robert "Bud" Ovrom, his deputy for economic development, the task of cleaning up the Department of Building and Safety afte...
Los Angeles Unified School District's often bizarre rules for disciplining teachers were exposed with the recent disclosure that former Miramonte Elementary...
The impression made by the Calabasas Old Town Farmers Market on a rainy autumn Saturday was that of an organic, or nearly organic, event. "Organic" banners were prominently displayed, and several produce sellers assured one curious customer that produce lacking the "organic" sign, while not organic, at least hadn't been......
