New Year's resolutions for Sacramento politicos

SACRAMENTO — From my skimpy research on New Year's resolutions, I've learned that 40% of us make them, and about 90% end in failure. A dismal record of weak will. Yet, New Year's resolutions should be encouraged because they're vital to self-improvement....

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Jane Goodall to promote conservation as Rose Parade grand marshal

The Rose Parade is Pasadena's premier event, but its 2013 grand marshal admits she learned about it only after receiving her title. "When you grow up in England and spend all your time in Tanzania ... I hadn't heard of the Rose Parade," Jane Goodall...

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Pasadena-area leaders hold peace and unity rally against violence

Pasadena-area community leaders staged a peace and unity rally Sunday afternoon to denounce recent violence that claimed the life of longtime youth sports leader and community activist Victor McClinton, among others. About 250 people gathered on the...

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This Rose Parade marks a major step for a young float designer

Charles Meier pulled his first all nighter when he was 11 years old. His mother found him asleep in a flower box. It was the night before final judging for the 1990 Rose Parade. Meier, a volunteer, had been running around for hours helping float decorators...

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Rocket launchers turned in during L.A. gun buyback not functional

Two rocket launchers turned in to the Los Angeles Police Department as part of the city's gun buyback event appear to be antitank weapons from the military, experts said. Police said the people turning them in at the buyback told officers they had family...

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Cal State Chancellor Charles B. Reed leaves a mixed legacy

As chancellor of California State University, Charles B. Reed became a symbol of the problems and the promise of the massive public higher education system. He has received national recognition for his efforts to increase the number of underserved students...

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An unlikely player in L.A. County assessor scandal

Scott Schenter sat in a small cubicle and dreamed big. In his late 40s, he was a property appraiser at the assessor's office who ached to be known as an international entrepreneur. "My current job is working for Los Angeles County, I don't like to...

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Officials warn holiday revelers against firing weapons

By Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times December 29, 2012, 8:59 p.m. Los Angeles officials are warning that anyone discharging a firearm into the air to celebrate the new year not only risks killing someone but could also face a lengthy prison sentence....

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Small-scale solar's big potential goes untapped

NIPTON, Calif. — Gerald Freeman unlocks the gate to the small power plant and goes inside. Three rows of solar collectors, elevated on troughs that track the sun's arc like sunflowers, afford a glimpse of California's possible energy future. This facility...

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Prominent L.A. lawyer's 2009 slaying still unsolved

Jeffrey and Sheryl Tidus had just arrived home from a charity fundraiser at Sheryl's toy store just a few miles away. They had driven in separate cars. Once inside, Sheryl called their daughter, Ilana, a sophomore at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania....

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California to offer 'legacy license plates'

The California Department of Motor Vehicles is planning to issue nostalgia-stoking replicas of the yellow, blue and black plates that graced the state's bumpers from the 1950s to the 1970s. But will classic car collectors buy into the impostors? Starting...

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Garcetti urges effort to save aviation mechanics school

Los Angeles City Councilman Eric Garcetti on Friday called for measures to keep a highly regarded aviation mechanics school at Van Nuys Airport from shutting down or being moved to smaller facilities elsewhere. Garcetti said he will request at the Jan....

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Union pickets gain special protections from state justices

Signature gatherers and protesters may be ejected from privately owned walkways outside a store, but labor unions may picket there peacefully, the California Supreme Court decided Thursday. The state high court unanimously agreed that private walkways...

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Proposals would shift shipping lanes to protect endangered whales

Shipping lanes along the California coast — the oceanic superhighways for Asian goods coming to America — are poised to be rerouted in order to protect endangered whales from collisions. The International Maritime Organization, which governs global...

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L.A. zoning official upholds permits for Wal-Mart in Chinatown

A Los Angeles zoning official refused to throw out building permits issued for a hotly contested Wal-Mart grocery store in Chinatown, handing the retail giant another victory at City Hall. In a 24-page report, Associate Zoning Administrator Maya Zaitzevsky...

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Media may argue against redactions in church files, judge rules

Media organizations will be allowed to argue against redactions in secret church files that are due to be made public as part of a historic $660-million settlement between the Los Angeles Archdiocese and alleged victims of sexual abuse by priests, a...

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Regulators ask Edison questions about San Onofre restart plan

Federal regulators have sent Southern California Edison a new set of detailed questions that will help them evaluate the feasibility of a partial restart of the shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant. The plant, which once supplied enough power for about...

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Mechanics school at Van Nuys Airport threatened by budget cuts

A popular vocational center at Van Nuys Airport that has trained thousands of aviation mechanics during its 40-year history faces closure or relocation next year if the Los Angeles Unified School District can no longer afford to keep the facility open....

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Young Ugandan orphan treated at L.A. burn center

Adolf Baguma's caretakers at the orphanage call him their Christmas gift, because it was on Christmas two years ago when they found the 9-year-old in the bushes behind a building in a small Ugandan town. Like many Ugandan children, Baguma was orphaned...

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Trucker to appeal manslaughter conviction in '09 accident

The truck driver convicted of manslaughter after a fatal 2009 collision on Angeles Crest Highway in La Cañada Flintridge is taking his case to an appeals court. Marcos Costa, 46, was sentenced to seven years and four months in prison after his 2011...

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L.A. architecture school  is poised to spread its wings

The Southern California Institute of Architecture has a most unusual college campus: a quarter-mile-long former railroad freight depot near the Los Angeles River in downtown. Students skateboard inside the skinny structure, from end to end, passing exhibition...

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Holiday cheer makes its presence felt during skid row Christmas

They made their way from Watts, San Pedro, Alhambra — entire families huddling in the rain overnight and tucking their kids in on cardboard. The backbeats of downtown Los Angeles' skid row caroled them through Christmas Eve. By early Christmas morning,...

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Contested UTLA panel elections signal internal fissures

The young staff at the Alexander Science Center has been hard hit by seniority-based layoffs, the main factor behind a turnover of at least 28 teachers in the last five years — this in a school with a faculty of about 28. Teachers say that the students...

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Maps alter the course of several lives

None of them could have predicted the direction their lives would take when tens of thousands of maps were discovered this fall in a tiny cottage at the top of Mount Washington. Just ask the librarian, the neighbor, the real estate agent and the retired...

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Youth orchestra opens up new world for participants

Dozens of young children, some wearing shirts with their Catholic school emblem, and with last names like Gonzalez, Mendieta and Santaolalla harmonized to the chorus of the "Dreidel Song." "Oh, dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, I made you out of clay," they...

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Massive collection of war letters coming to Chapman University

For years the stories of pain and patriotism, of loss and heroism, have been locked away in a storage facility in Washington, D.C. But now a massive collection of American wartime correspondence from the Revolutionary War to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...

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