The Nation - News from Feb. 26, 1986
- Share via
Parents trying to keep a 14-year-old AIDS patient out of school must post a $12,000 bond within five days to cover potential damages in case their legal effort fails, a judge ruled in Kokomo, Ind. Judge Alan Brubaker issued the restraining order that keeps Ryan White, who contracted AIDS from treatments for hemophilia, out of school. Brubaker will hear further evidence March 11 on whether the order should be extended.
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recently approved California’s request to extend housing assistance to survivors of the Eaton and Palisades fires. But more than 18 months after those January 2025 fires, survivors are still waiting on an additional $16 billion in federal disaster relief from the federal government, which was revised down earlier this year from nearly $34 billion.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
Modern LA earned its first smoggy nickname 450 years ago, as the “bay of smokes.” At the La Brea tar pits, we take a short walk through a long history with curator Regan Dunn, who explains how and why the first Angelenos would have set fires that filled the broad bowl of LA and foretold the curse of smog.
