Новости за 28.02.2018

The mother of three said she walked into the Santa Clarita Valley sheriff’s station desperate for protection from her ex-husband.

For Isabela Barry, it was time. After two weeks of tears, vigils and funerals — reliving her and her classmates’ ordeal when a gunman rampaged through their school, killing one of her best friends — the 16-year-old was ready to go back to class.

It was almost like old times.

Everywhere I looked Tuesday in a downtown San Diego courthouse, I saw a former California Coastal commissioner whose conduct is under scrutiny.

Former Commissioners Wendy Mitchell, Martha McClure and Steve Kinsey were all there, with current Commissioners Erik Howell...

The Calaveras County Board of Supervisors has declared all commercial cannabis farms illegal, but growers who invested in farms when cultivation was allowed are up in arms over what they call a bait-and-switch.

To deal with the shortcomings of Obamacare, Democrats see the expansion of existing public programs as a more pragmatic and politically viable way forward.

If you are planning to see the Oscar-nominated “Get Out,” please stop reading this post right now. There are spoilers, here, ladies and gentlemen, and they will affect the way you watch the move.

Here come the robot cars.

Sometime this spring, self-driving test cars will begin appearing on California highways, with no people inside, the result of new regulations issued by the state Department of Motor Vehicles this week.

The rules, first proposed last October, will also allow ride-hailing...

Even if last year’s Oscars ceremony hadn’t ended with the most embarrassing gaffe in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ nearly 90-year history, the announcement that “Moonlight” had won best picture still would have come as an industry-rattling shock.

Making jails the centerpiece of mental health treatment is a monumental betrayal of our claim to a humane and civilized society.

High school students nationwide have vowed to ditch their classrooms on March 14 and call for gun control in the wake of the Parkland, Fla., shootings. Expect massive media coverage and rightful public praise of the protesters as brave, honorable kids doing the right thing.

Deceiving an ethics official is a serious offense for a government employee. Can we agree on that?

To the editor: Your series of editorials on homelessness makes good points. Many homeless families have incomes and cannot find rentals using even half of their income for housing. Even if they find a place with monthly rental they can afford, there are barriers to move in, such as security deposits...

For fall and winter 2018, Dior’s artistic director — and an unapologetic feminist — Maria Grazia Chiuri looked to the turbulent 1960s for inspiration, using a venue plastered with colorful collage-like images of fashion magazines from the decade (Elle, Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue, among them) as...

To the editor: Except for environmentalists who understand their value, most of us, in our ignorance, would probably welcome the rising sea covering over those messy salt marshes. (“Salt marshes will vanish in less than a century if seas keep rising and California keeps building, study finds,”...

L.A. Times film critics Kenneth Turan and Justin Chang sit down to swap predictions and favorites in the top eight Oscar categories.

When the U.S. deployed a missile-defense system in South Korea, China retaliated by discouraging its people from travel there. A year later, the tourism restrictions have taken a sharp toll on South Korea, where the economic impact could be as high as $15 billion.

Trenton Duerksen’s eyes scoured the massive skull before him, darting left and right as he searched for his nemesis: particles of fine, sticky dust that resemble gray snow.

Perhaps no advisor to President Trump has had a more expansive portfolio — relations with China and Mexico, Middle East peace, government innovation — than Jared Kushner, the president’s ubiquitous son-in-law.

Two months after Hurricane Maria ripped through Puerto Rico, scores of people were still dying in its aftermath, new government data suggest.

Following major 1938 storms, Los Angeles River is turned into flood control channel.

The game between the Clippers and Nuggets on Tuesday night at the Pepsi Center was significant for both of them, with Denver barely ahead of the Clippers in the tight Western Conference race.