Vikings rookie cornerback Khyree Jackson killed in car crash
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. — Minnesota Vikings rookie cornerback Khyree Jackson was killed Saturday morning in a car crash in Maryland, police and the team said.Jackson, 24,…
Is city status right for East Los Angeles?
The introduction of Assembly Bill 2986 in Sacramento has reopened the perennial question of cityhood for East Los Angeles and triggered a fight over how…
L.A. County affordable housing, homelessness sales tax heads to ballot
Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday to send a measure to the November ballot that would double the county’s homelessness sales tax to a half-cent…
California Gov. Newsom is moving his family back to Marin County
Gov. Gavin Newsom and wife Jennifer Siebel Newsom plan to move their family back to Marin County, a spokeswoman said Monday. Both Newsom and the…
Michael Govan is kingpin of L.A.’s global arts ambition
Michael Govan, photographed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles on Nov. 14. When Michael Govan joined the Los Angeles County…
California legislators reject proposal to limit water well-drilling
Over the past several years, California’s water managers have seen a pattern emerge in farming areas of the Central Valley: Even as declining groundwater levels…
L.A. County lifeguard brings culture wars to the beach. Sort of
Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record — our newsletter on the local political scene. It’s county reporter Rebecca Ellis, with help from…
L.A. County Natural History Museum opens voting to name new dinosaur
Sage? Esme? Gnatalie? The Los Angeles County Natural History Museum is seeking the public’s help in naming a 70-foot-long sauropod skeleton unearthed by the museum’s…
Billionaire-backed plan to erect California city qualifies for ballot
The billionaire proponents of a brand new city that would rise from the rolling prairie northeast of the San Francisco Bay cleared their first big…
Dear USPS: This Marin County town wants its post office back
BOLINAS, Calif. — On the outskirts of this coastal village — just past the road sign telling visitors they are “Entering a Socially Acknowledged Nature-Loving Town”…
San Diego County says it’s nearly stamped out illegal pot shops. Why can’t L.A.?
The van screeched to a halt in a parking lot along a busy Whittier thoroughfare. A half-dozen men in army-green body armor and tactical helmets…
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, frequent Newsom critic, ponders a run to succeed him
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a conservative firebrand known for law-and-order views and fierce criticism of Gov. Gavin Newsom, is considering a run for governor…
County Championship: Hampshire complete innings win over Surrey
Hampshire spinners Felix Organ and Liam Dawson bowled the hosts to their biggest ever County Championship victory and Surrey's biggest-ever innings defeat as the back-to-back…
L.A. County wants zero traffic deaths — but won’t fund safe streets, advocates say
Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record. It’s Rebecca Ellis, bringing you the latest in the county’s budget discussions with help from my…
Smirking mugshot of county lines ‘Queenpin’ who used ‘youngsters’ to peddle drugs across seaside town as she’s jailed
A WOMAN who was a teenager when she ran a county line drug operation dealing drugs worth around £300,000 has been jailed for five years.…
L.A. County’s highest paid employee is Dr. Sebo Amirkhanian Namagerdy
The joke around the hospital is that Dr. Sebo Amirkhanian Namagerdy does not leave Rancho Los Amigos, a premier rehabilitation facility run by Los Angeles…
An Orange County banker runs for Wisconsin Senate seat
Eric Hovde has, from the looks of it, a pretty swell life. The banking executive is a millionaire many times over. He owns an ocean-view…
David Lloyd: Derbyshire captain on stress of county schedule
Had former Glamorgan captain David Lloyd not moved to Derbyshire for the 2024 season, he might not still be playing the game.Raised in Wrexham, Lloyd…
California Legislature demands data after homelessness audit
SACRAMENTO — Democrats and Republicans expressed frustration Monday as they grilled Gov. Gavin Newsom’s top housing officials in a tense legislative hearing about how billions of…
Racism and Trump’s election lie on California Central Coast
The Big Lie — the fiction that the 2020 election was riddled with fraud, costing President Trump a second term — has spread like a…