By David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times
Old rivalries resurface, fraud is alleged and activists renew their efforts as the deadline nears for approving a new high-stakes map of City Council districts.
By Mitchell Landsberg, Los Angeles Times
The parents of Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal received the rite, which was also sought for relatives of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. Critics note that Mormons agreed in 1995 to stop baptizing Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
By Steve Lopez
They use disabled-driver placards that they don't deserve. But thanks to the LAPD and DOT, some of them get the hefty fines they really do deserve.
By Andrew Blankstein, Los Angeles Times
The L.A. County sheriff's jailer allegedly had planned to sell it to inmates. The arrest is the latest in a series over internal affairs investigations into the lucrative drug trade behind bars.
By Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times
Deputies union says the Feb. 7 shooting of Marine Sgt. Manuel Loggins prevented his two daughters from being harmed.
By Ari Bloomekatz, Los Angeles Times
Erroneous reports that L.A. County had enacted a $1,000 fine for playing football and Frisbee on beaches flashed around the world and brought protests. The panel ordered staff to rewrite the rules to make them more clear.
By Jeff Gottlieb, Los Angeles Times
El Segundo gave Doug Willmore no reason for his termination but he suspects retaliation.
By Robert Faturechi, Los Angeles Times
Deputy James Mee had alleged that his supervisors retaliated against him for resisting requests to remove the actor's anti-Semitic slurs from an initial arrest report.
By Joel Rubin, Los Angeles Times
The Police Commission delays a final vote on new rules on the impounding of unlicensed drivers' vehicles after a nonpartisan state agency issues a report questioning the legality of the plan.
By Dan Weikel, Los Angeles Times
The construction authority overseeing the rail project's extension from Pasadena to Azusa will pay the property owner $24 million to settle six suits over the price of 4.8 acres needed for a maintenance yard.
By Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times
A judge had dismissed sexual assault charges against the sex crimes prosecutor accused of raping a colleague during their lunch hour.
By Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times
The 2011 Playmate of the Year has sought a temporary restraining order against Hugh Hefner's son, who was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence.
By Jeff Gottlieb, Los Angeles Times
About 200 small California groups may have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in donated funds.
By Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times
The Fair Political Practices Commission has eased restrictions on gifts to lawmakers, called fewer open meetings and stopped notifying the public of pending investigations. Some good-government advocates are angry.
By Ari Bloomekatz and Robert Faturechi, Los Angeles Times
Deputies who spend their entire careers working in lockups could be promoted to chief under a new fast-track proposal. But a recent survey finds that 80% of jail supervisors would not want to continue the duty.
By Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times
The Obama administration asks Congress for $35 billion in passenger rail funding over five years as Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood urges California to overcome opposition to project
By Angel Jennings, Los Angeles Times
Rally at Van Nuys City Hall urges lawmakers to revise policy allowing LAPD to cite students who are late to school. The ACLU says the law unfairly targets Latinos, blacks and low-income students.
By Anna Gorman, Los Angeles Times
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, on a visit to Eisner Pediatric and Family Medical Center, announces more than $9 million in funding to help medical students repay school loans if they agree to work in underserved areas.
By Lisa Girion, Los Angeles Times
Hundreds coalesce at a City Council meeting in the wake of a cluster of overdose deaths.
By Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times
Maximino and Melinda Morales are sentenced for their role in helping Filipino workers obtain fraudulent visas and for making them work in substandard conditions caring for elderly patients in Paso Robles, Calif.