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Trump Makes It Official. Harassers Lose

Donald Trump today has obtained the required 270 electoral votes to become president. Although electors in dozens of states still have to vote, the electoral balloting...

Baca Plea Rejected

A federal judge rejected a plea agreement this morning under which former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca would have served up to six months...

Sen. Runner Dies

State Sen. Sharon Runner, a longtime      legislator who championed a sweeping law that targeted sex offenders and then battled back into political life after failing health, died today. She was 62. A statement from her...

Way We Used to Think

  The City Council recently defeated proposals by new Councilmen Steven Gourley and Jim Boulgarides to limit Council and commission members to two terms in...

Merle Haggard, 79

By Jill Leovy. Merle Haggard, the prolific singer-songwriter who sang of his law-breaking Bakersfield youth and penned a seemingly effortless stream of natural, storytelling lyrics...

Rosendahl Dies at 70

By Kate Linthicum and Veronica Rocha.  Bill Rosendahl, a television talk show host who became the first openly gay man to serve on the Los...

Bracing, Baca to Plead Guilty

By Joel Rubin, Cindy Chang and Harriet Ryan.  Retired Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca was due to plead guilty today in a downtown courtroom...

Familiar Creed in Brown’s New Budget

  By John Myers , Melanie Mason, Christine Mai-Duc By now, it could easily be called Gov.  Brown’s budget doctrine — an insistence on modest expansions...