LOS ANGELES — Former Dodgers pitcher Julio Urías pleaded no contest Wednesday to a misdemeanor domestic battery charge stemming from his arrest last September outside BMO Stadium in Exposition Park. Urías, 27, was placed on 36 months of summary probation and ordered to complete 30 days of community labor, complete a 52-week domestic violence counseling course, … Read more
Four Southern California News Group photographers won a total of 10 awards in the Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles’ annual contest for images they captured in 2023. The photographers are Keith Birmingham, Terry Pierson, Sarah Reingewirtz and Mindy Schauer. The Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles is an 88-year-old organization made up … Read more
Q. Dear Honk: There is a defunct railroad line that has been shut down for many years. It runs parallel to Bastanchury Road in Fullerton. The crossing gates have been removed, as well as all of the signs, except for one that states that the tracks are out of service. In spite of all this, … Read more
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — For as grim as the Lakers’ outlook appeared to be after consecutive home losses to the Minnesota Timberwolves and Golden State Warriors earlier in the week, and how uninspiring Friday’s road win over the short-handed Memphis Grizzlies was, they’re back in control of their postseason fate. No more external help is necessary … Read more
Los Angeles County’s two largest juvenile detention facilities, at risk of closure for failing to meet minimum standards of safety and care, won a last-minute reprieve Thursday, April 11, when state regulators allowed them to remain open. The Board of State and Community Corrections, the regulatory board overseeing California’s prisons and juvenile halls, voted to … Read more
Santa Ana police officers are not criminally culpable for the September 2022 death of a 73-year-old man taken into custody two days earlier after being wounded by less-lethal projectiles and bitten several times by a police K-9 dog, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said in a report released Thursday. The OCDA’s custodial death report … Read more
A feud over unpaid debts and control over a lucrative drug-trafficking business led to an outburst of violence in an Orange neighborhood in 2015, where residents discovered three charred bodies inside a burning SUV rolling down their street, with a fourth body tied to the murders found days later in Fontana, prosecutors told a jury … Read more
MESQUITE, Texas — Eclipse spectators staked out their spots across three countries Sunday, fervently hoping for clear skies despite forecasts calling for clouds along most of the sun-vanishing route. North America won’t see another coast-to-coast total solar eclipse for 21 years, prompting the weekend’s worry and mad rush. Monday’s extravaganza stretches from Mexico’s Pacific beaches … Read more
Jay Obernolte was a seventh grader when his father came home with a transformative gift: an Apple II Plus computer and a book on how to learn to program. It didn’t have a disk drive or cassette interface — those were expensive, he recalled — which meant nothing could be saved. Any program he had … Read more
ANAHEIM — The Angels provided an Angel Stadium sellout crowd of 44,714 with plenty of entertainment, but not a victory. After trailing by four runs in the second inning, the Angels rallied to tie the score in the sixth and seventh innings before losing, 8-6, to the Boston Red Sox in their home opener on … Read more
