A homeless Angeleno broke into her old, vacant home and wants to stay
Every few months after she left the narrow white cottage on Poplar Boulevard, Maria Merritt would slink back to the tree-lined street in El Sereno,…
Farmworker’s son and dairy farmer face off in California election
BAKERSFIELD — As a teenager, David Valadao had a long list of chores to do before school every day. He’d jump on his tractor, buck hay…
What can you do with a preschooler at Disneyland?
Jeanette Marantos started writing for the Los Angeles Times in 1999, doing Money Makeovers until 2002. She returned to write for The Times’ Homicide Report…
How one Florida county is defying DeSantis at the Rose Parade
Stacy Ritter knew she had to do something big to distinguish Fort Lauderdale from Ron DeSantis. The Florida governor had spent more than a year…