On Thursday, prosecutors released chilling text messages in the trial of Mila Dago, 24, who was arrested and charged with DUI manslaughter, vehicular homicide, and two counts of DUI with damage to a person after plowing her Smart Car into a moving truck on August 14, 2013.
On Thursday, a city audit conducted on two nonprofit trusts created by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power was released, revealing a pattern of financial dealings that smacked of corruption.
On Thursday, the Republic of Santa Monica, California, not content with its 2010 designation as the homeless capital of America, when 48,000 people lived on the streets, won a victory in its continuing quest to capture the title of America’s most anti-Christian city.
Establishment Republicans are now championing getting illegal immigrants driver’s licenses. At the Eastern Indoor Swapmeet Las Vegas, the LIBRE Initiative, a group funded by the Koch brothers, was attempting to help 250 Latinos, some of whom were illegal immigrants, to pass the Nevada driver’s test.
On Thursday night, Baltimore police labeled “suspicious” the death of a 51-year-old man who was discovered in the cab of a tractor trailer near the CVS looted and burned in Baltimore Monday night, according to the Baltimore Sun.
On Thursday afternoon, New York Knicks star Carmelo Anthony, 30, who hails from Baltimore, walked with protesters as they marched to City Hall.
According to The Campaign for College Opportunity, a nonprofit organization, the paucity of Latinos in California with a college degree represents a problem that should be solved by allowing the state’s public universities to use race or ethnicity as a factor in weighing an applicant’s qualifications.
Baltimore police officials said 98 officers have been injured since riots broke out after the funeral of Freddie Gray. Thirteen of the officers had to be placed on medical leave, and 15 were relegated to light duty. Police Capt. Eric Kowalczyk said protesters had fired bricks, bottles, and chunks of cement at officers.
On Thursday, Los Angeles firefighters gave critical aid in a remarkable story of survival after the massive Nepal earthquake; a 15-year-old Nepalese boy, Pemba Lama, who was trapped under the wreckage of a nine-story Kathmandu hotel, was pulled out after being trapped in the rubble for five days.
Tiger Woods, who was last seen on the PGA Tour finishing 17th at the Masters earlier this month, announced via Twitter that he will compete in five upcoming tournaments between June 4 and August 2.
On Tuesday, the day before the 23rd anniversary of the LA riots in 1992, Breitbart News interviewed Ryan Gattis, a lecturer and writer at Chapman University who is the author of the new novel All Involved: A Novel of the 1992 L.A. Riots.
On Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito decided to make same-sex marriages advocates face the logical extension of their position, asking bluntly why four people of opposite sexes could not marry, given the argument that two people of the same sex should be able to wed.
According to a Stanford graduate student, the jet-setters who live in Marina Del Rey should don their scuba gear: Catalina Island is sinking, and that may trigger a tsunami that would leave them submerged.
Despite the April 21 threat uttered by U.S Secretary of Education at the Education Writers Association meetings in Chicago that the federal government would “step in” if states did not make sure their students took tests aligned with Common Core Standards, students around the country are skipping the tests, and now more than half of students at Palos Verdes High School have opted out of taking the tests.
During their Game 5, series-clinching win over Dallas in the Western Conference playoffs, the Houston Rockets Twitter account taunted the Mavericks by posting an emoji of a pistol next to a horse with the caption, “Shhhhh. Just close your eyes. It will all be over soon.”
Oscar De La Hoya, who faced Floyd Mayweather, Jr., and Manny Pacquiao, losing to both of them, had some interesting comments about the upcoming Mayweather-Pacquiao $400 million record-setting fight on Saturday at the MGM Grand, including his declaration that the deck is stacked against Pacquiao, as Las Vegas is Mayweather’s hometown.
Francis Pusok was awarded a $650,000 settlement from San Bernardino County on Apr. 22 because police had kicked and punched him. The very next day, police caught him running through the backyards of various homes.
Cleveland Cavaliers forward Kevin Love, who suffered a dislocated left shoulder in Sunday’s Game 4 of the Eastern Conference opening-round playoffs against the Boston Celtics, won’t play in the team’s second-round series because of the injury.
GOP conservatives in the House are worried that establishment Republicans like Speaker John Boehner and his buddies may betray them once again, this time with the effort to repeal ObamaCare.
After Baltimore police reported a “credible threat” that some of the notorious gangs around the nation—including the Black Guerrilla Family, the Bloods, and the Crips—have ordered their members to target officers, various police departments are taking steps to protect their officers.
On Saturday, the 7.8 earthquake that struck Nepal, its worst earthquake in 80 years, killing roughly 3,600 people, claimed the life of at least one Southern Californian and triggered Governor Jerry Brown to send 57 Los Angeles County firefighters to aid in search and rescue efforts.
On Monday, only five days before he will fight Floyd Mayweather, 38, in the richest fight in history, Filipino fighter Manny Pacquiao, 36, appeared on a video call on the Philippines, GMA News TV to plead with Indonesian President Joko Widodo for the life of a Filipina scheduled to be executed on Tuesday for dealing drugs.
Helena Andrews, who pens an online column for the Washington Post called the Reliable Source, was videotaped ignoring the national anthem at Saturday’s annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner while allegedly texting.
On Friday, Judge Alan McCullough, an administrative law judge in Oregon, doubled down on his January ruling that the bakery Sweet Cakes by Melissa discriminated against a lesbian couple by refusing to bake them a wedding cake, and he added
Brittney Mills, 29, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who was eight months pregnant, was shot and killed Friday night with numerous shots to her upper body, but her baby was delivered and may live.
