By Ryan Sabalow | CalMatters The year 2025 is shaping up to be a confusing one for Californians unlucky enough to buy a new or used car that turns out to be a clunker. Starting Jan. 1, car buyers who purchase a faulty vehicle will have to navigate a new version of California’s “lemon law”…
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FULLERTON — Hiea-Yoon Kang, suspended from coaching the U.S. Olympic and national artistic swimming teams, continues to coach young athletes at Fullerton College, a location she has tried to keep secret for months, while being investigated by the U.S. Center for SafeSport for allegedly routinely physically, emotionally and verbally abusing swimmers for more than a…
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LOS ANGELES — Early in the season, New York Jets cornerback Sauce Gardner seemed to be struggling. Or, at least by the standards that he set in his first two seasons, after each of which he was named a first-team All-Pro. He gave up a career-high 97 passing yards on six targets in Week 2,…
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FBI agents arrested a Chino Hills man Thursday on federal charges that he allegedly acted as a political operative for the People’s Republic of China while serving as a campaign manager for a local official elected in 2022 to a city council in Southern California. Neither the local politician nor the city they were elected…
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By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer Marcus Freeman spent his first two seasons as the Notre Dame coach chasing the playoff dream. This year, he’s living it – at home. After closing the regular season on a 10-game winning streak and getting two weeks to prepare for the most meaningful postseason game of his career,…
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An investigation was continuing Thursday into the death of a cruise ship passenger who allegedly became belligerent, chased other passengers and was detained by crew members with zip ties shortly after the ship left the Port of Los Angeles bound for Ensenada, Mexico. The man was detained by crew members aboard the Royal Caribbean ship…
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Toys, athletic gear, scooters and games were among the thousands of gifts donated by residents of Newport Beach to military service members for Christmas. This year, the items – part of Operation Christmas, an outreach project to benefit all the branches of the U.S. military run by the nonprofit Our Nation’s Heroes Foundation – were…
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A judge on Thursday granted nearly $4 million in attorneys’ fees to a former UCLA hematologist previously awarded $14 million by a jury who found she was forced out of her job as director of the medical school’s lymphoma program because a male-dominated administration ignored her complaints of gender discrimination. The Los Angeles Superior Court…
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Proposition 36, the ballot measure that among other things toughens penalties for theft and other criminal offenses and which won widespread approval from California voters last month, officially went into effect this week — with supporters hoping it will lead to less crime and opponents fearing a swell in incarceration. In November, the proposition proved…
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LOS ANGELES — Two new baby lizards have hatched at the Los Angeles Zoo, the first of their species to be bred there, zoo officials said Thursday. Perentie lizards, or Varanus giganteus, are native to Australia and one of the world’s largest lizards, dwarfed only by the Komodo dragon and a few others. “It is…
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