U.S. rent inflation reached yet another record in January, fueled by red-hot markets such as Miami. Single-family rental prices jumped 12.6% from a year earlier, according to the latest CoreLogic Single-Family Rent Index. All major metropolitan areas saw increases, but the Sun Belt experienced by far the biggest gains, with Miami’s asking rents up almost…
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USC’s Mike Bohn was named the 2021-22 FBS Athletic Director of the Year on Tuesday by the NACDA, the first Trojan AD to earn the honor. Under Bohn, USC won three NCAA team championships – women’s track and field, women’s water polo and women’s beach volleyball – while the athletic department posted its highest-ever graduation…
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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, March 15, increased and extended a reward offered for information leading to a conviction in the death of Mitrice Richardson, a woman who went missing after being released from the sheriff’s Malibu-Lost Hills Station in 2009. Richardson, who grew up in Covina, was released Sept. 17,…
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By ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed a bill providing $13.6 billion in additional military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine as part of a $1.5 trillion government spending measure that omits COVID-19 aid the White House says is urgently needed. The COVID spending was a casualty of…
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Q: The images from Ukraine are horrifying. If actions taken by Russian President Vladimir Putin are actual war crimes, what legally can be done? H.L.D., Carson A: The Geneva Conventions are several related treaties adopted and amplified from 1864 to 1949, and which represent a legal basis and framework for “the conduct of war” under…
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By Craig Trudell | Bloomberg The cheapest Model 3 in the U.S. is now $46,990, according to Tesla’s website. The company raised prices by 3% to 5% in both the U.S. and China, Dan Levy, a Credit Suisse analyst, said in a note to clients. Musk tweeted earlier this week that both Tesla and Space…
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In “Master,” Regina Hall plays a professor at an elite New England college, and one of the few Black people on a campus where malevolent supernatural forces may or may not be at play. Shadowy figures in long hooded cloaks appear in the distance. Dormitory hallways turn ominous. A young Black student’s nightmares fill with…
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A major factor in California’s startling evolution from a state with two evenly matched political parties to one utterly dominated by Democrats has been their back-scratching partnership with labor unions. Democratic politicians have delivered on the unions’ bread-and-butter priorities, from pension benefits to legislation making it easier to make public and private employees union members.…
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Starting at left tackle for the Super Bowl-winning Rams could have been a signal that Andrew Whitworth was still good enough to keep playing. Instead, it gave the Rams’ revered elder statesman a way to go out on top. Whitworth, 40, made it official Tuesday morning, the Rams announcing his retirement after a 16-year NFL…
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There are plants that Jack Carlisle, owner of The Potting Shed by Carlisle in Orange, has come to call “Instagram ‘It’ plants,” because customers always request them by pulling out their phones and showing him pictures of them on the popular app. Houseplants got even trendier in 2020 amid the start of the pandemic as…
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