Deaths Of Inmates Reignite Calls For Closure Of Iran’s ‘Uninhabitable’ Women’s Prison
Qarchak Prison, located southeast of Tehran, is Iran’s largest women’s detention center. Calls to close the facility have grown after multiple inmate deaths due to alleged neglect.
Video: Apparent Halloween thief trots away with 13-foot-tall Jack Skellington
Video caught the apparent theft of a 13-foot-tall Jack Skellington decoration from a Corona home. The owner is hoping for its return.
City seeks to overturn judge’s order limiting LAPD use of crowd control weapons
The move comes less than a month after a federal judge issued a temporary injunction over allegations that LAPD officers used excessive force against members of the press covering protests against the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
$200,000 in jewelry stolen when jeweler pulled over to check on a flat tire, police say
Three male suspects are believed to have stolen around $200,000 from a jeweler at knifepoint in Woodland Hills on Monday evening. The jeweler believes the suspects followed him, slashed his tires and robbed him when he pulled
L.A. County launches investigation into historic sex abuse settlement
L.A. County’s Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to begin an investigation into a $4-billion settlement following reporting by The Times that uncovered plaintiffs who said they were paid to sue.
Federal agents held, shackled a seriously injured man to hospital bed for 37 days without charging him
Bayron Rovidio Marin broke his leg when immigration authorities raided the car wash where he worked in Carson in August. He spent more than a month handcuffed to his hospital bed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center before a
Sensitive police files to be opened up for watchdogs under new law signed by Newsom
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that will expand access by oversight officials to confidential law enforcement records, enacting legislation backed by family members of people harmed by L.A. County sheriff’s deputies.
Newsom signs bill that targets antisemitism and other discrimination in schools
A new California law creates an Office for Civil Rights to monitor and help schools comply with state anti-discrimination laws.
Tom Girardi’s son-in-law is sentenced in legal fraud scandal
David Lira, the son-in-law of disgraced attorney Tom Giradi, gets four months in prison for his involvement in a scheme in which payments were withheld from the survivors of plane crash victims.
Trash fees will spike for many L.A. residents in aftermath of city’s fiscal crisis
The waste collection program had previously been heavily subsidized, to the tune of about $500,000 a day, which was no longer viable given the city’s financial straits.