In a world of change, dancing puppets still delight

One day, maybe not so many days from now, the Bob Baker Marionette Theater will be gone. Its debt will prove at last too much to bear. Its boxy white buildings will be sold. And people will be sad, particularly those who talked for years about going...

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Victims' relatives divided on ending death penalty

Past California governors joined with crime victims Tuesday to announce their opposition to a proposal to end the death penalty, while a second set of victims said ending capital punishment would give them closure. Former Gov. Gray Davis joined Pete...

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Boy who shot neo-Nazi dad just another killer, prosecutor says

The 10-year-old son of a Riverside neo-Nazi leader was just another killer when he shot his sleeping father on the couch on an early May morning last year, a prosecutor told a judge Tuesday. Sitting unshackled, the now 12-year-old boy listened as Chief...

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Taiwanese will no longer need visas to visit U.S.

Yi-Shen Chou has spent more than 30 years in the U.S., first as a motel operator and now as a Monterey Park retiree who enjoys line dancing and computer games. His family — a half-dozen brothers and sisters and numerous nieces and nephews — remains...

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L.A. schools fail to gain union backing for grant application

An effort by the Los Angeles Unified School District to win a high-profile $40-million grant has unraveled after the L.A. teachers union declined to sign the application, a condition for the competition imposed by the federal education department. The...

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For these high school grads, pomp with different circumstances

The school band played "Pomp and Circumstance." The girls donned rhinestone-bejeweled caps and sparkly stilettos. And a nervous announcer offered the students a pre-ceremony warning: If you don't tell me how to pronounce your name, I'll get it wrong....

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PETA seeks memorial where 1,600 pounds of fish died in Irvine

On behalf of the animal rights group PETA, an Irvine woman is asking the city to erect a memorial at the street corner where 1,600 pounds of fish died this month when a container truck crashed into two other vehicles. Dina Kourda, a volunteer with People...

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At polluted Santa Susana lab site, sacred cave attracts tribe's bid

The Chumash tribe has expressed interest in buying a 450-acre slice of a contaminated nuclear research facility in the hills between the Simi and San Fernando valleys, hoping to preserve a cave that its members consider sacred. The tribe's inquiries...

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Taiwan tries to recruit California students to its universities

Taiwan's minister of education, Wei-Ling Chiang, traveled to California last week to address a rarely discussed trade imbalance with the United States. "Just 3,561 American-born students are enrolled in Taiwanese universities, while about 24,000 Taiwanese...

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Alarcon suggests making Verdugo Hills Golf Course a historic site

L.A. Councilman Richard Alarcon is hoping to save the Verdugo Hills Golf Course from residential development by adding it to the city's list of historic and cultural monuments, citing its history as a detention center for Japanese Americans during World...

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Preservationists build coalition to save undeveloped Silver Lake parcel

This is one part of Silver Lake that has no lake view. In fact, the only views are from atop a corkscrew drive that looks out over a pair of freeways, the 5 and the 2. Residents, however, see this 10.2-acre stretch of undeveloped land — along Riverside...

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San Diego mayoral candidates draw lines in the mud

SAN DIEGO — After a campaign filled with negative TV commercials and name-calling, San Diego voters will choose between two philosophically opposed candidates to succeed termed-out Mayor Jerry Sanders, a moderate Republican. Rep. Bob Filner, a liberal...

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Partnership Walk aims to reduce global poverty

Southern Californians can strike a blow against poverty in Africa and Asia by joining Sunday in the 18th annual Partnership Walk. The event, which begins at 10 a.m. at the Santa Monica Pier, is held in 10 major U.S. cities each year. Money raised goes...

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Patrick Gannon named to lead L.A. Airport Police Department

By Andrew Blankstein, Los Angeles Times October 28, 2012 Former Los Angeles Police Deputy Chief Patrick Gannon has been named chief of the Los Angeles Airport Police Department, officials said. The 34-year LAPD veteran, whose assignments included...

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Brown brings Prop. 30 campaign to L.A.'s Grand Central Market

Gov. Jerry Brown on Saturday brought his campaign to rescue Proposition 30 to downtown Los Angeles, flanked by Latino leaders who support his plan to raise billions of tax dollars to prevent severe cuts to education. "This is a stark decision by the...

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Santa Monica Bike Center pushes pedaling for commuters

By the time Barry Balmat showed up at the Santa Monica Bike Center, he had already compiled a laundry list of reasons why biking to work might not work. The Santa Monica resident lived just two miles from his office, but the thought of pedaling just...

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Man awaiting sentencing in Zoloft rape case is found dead

Los Angeles Times A 26-year-old rape victim stood before a subdued San Bernardino County courtroom Friday, and read a carefully drafted statement addressed to the former Westminster police detective who kidnapped and raped her two years earlier. "I...

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Former executioners share their misgivings about death penalty

Ron McAndrew, a former prison warden, said he began to have doubts about the death penalty after seeing flames dance from the head of an inmate strapped into Florida's electric chair. "There was no way I could stop the execution," said McAndrew, who...

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Los Angeles council wants to work around the city attorney

As weeks go, this was not a great one for Los Angeles City Atty. Carmen Trutanich. On Monday, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa proposed a charter amendment that would strip the city attorney of the power to represent the city in civil court. The next day,...

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D.A. candidate Jackie Lacey to return donation from convicted felon

Los Angeles County district attorney candidate Jackie Lacey's campaign has blasted her opponent, Alan Jackson, for taking campaign contributions from a convicted felon who served prison time for his role in a multimillion-dollar mortgage loan scheme...

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Before historic L.A. movie house is remade, it offers a last peek

It's time for a retake after 100 years in downtown Los Angeles. The historic Tower movie theater at the corner of South Broadway and 8th Street is poised to get a dramatic new lease on life — this time as a concert venue with an indoor-outdoor bar and...

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Independent spending pours into California congressional races

Democratic congressional candidate Jay Chen couldn't begin to match the nearly $2.5 million raised by longtime Rep. Ed Royce (R-Fullerton), whom Chen is challenging for what is widely regarded as a safe GOP seat. But a little-known group called America...

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Downey police question man in shootings that killed three

A man matching the description of the gunman who shot five people — killing three and critically wounding two — was being questioned Thursday night by Downey police. Two other men and a woman who had been detained and questioned in connection with Wednesday's...

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Nearly 160 civilian workers in LAPD may be laid off

Nearly 160 civilian Los Angeles Police Department employees could be laid off by Jan. 1 in a plan by City Hall to address its budget deficit, according to an internal department website posting obtained by The Times. LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said jobs...

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Suspect held in fiery attack on man

A parolee with a lengthy criminal history has been arrested in connection with a Molotov cocktail attack that left a 54-year-old man critically burned in Long Beach, authorities said Wednesday afternoon. Jacob Lagarde, 27, a Long Beach resident with...

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Man whose false report led to police shooting won't be charged

The L.A. County district attorney's office will not charge a man with involuntary manslaughter after he falsely claimed he was robbed at gunpoint, setting off a chain of events that ended with an officer fatally shooting a college student. Pasadena...

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3 family members killed, 2 wounded in Downey shooting attack

Five members of a Downey family were shot — three fatally — in a bizarre series of events that started at the business they owned and ended at their home a few blocks away. Authorities said they don't know the motive for the attack and said they are...

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