Business |
By Ap |
2:18AM, September 6
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are expected to be taken over by the government as soon as this weekend in a bold move designed to protect the mortgage market from the risk the companies could fail, a person briefed on the matter said Friday night.
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All lanes on the 101 Freeway in Woodland Hills were reopened after being temporarily shut down as authorities investigated a suspicious package found on an overpass.
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California | Local |
By Mike Anton |
12:00AM, September 6
A California appeals court has upheld a Superior Court ruling that Orange Unified School District board member Steve Rocco and others must pay $37,000 in legal fees stemming from a dismissed lawsuit against the district.
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Maudie Hopkins, who was the last publicly documented widow of a Confederate soldier, having married an elderly Civil War infantryman when she was a teenager, has died.
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Ventura College was locked down briefly this morning after a teenage boy apparently showed off a firearm and a cache of bullets in the college cafeteria.
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A 48-year-old San Bernardino County man has died of West Nile virus, the third death this year in California from the mosquito-borne illness, authorities said today.
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California | Local |
By Sandy Banks |
12:00AM, September 6
The guys from Sigma Nu were one pitcher of beer into a game of “baseball” when I took a seat at their table in
USC’s on-campus bar and asked for an interview.
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An Orange County sheriff’s internal-affairs investigator left the department Friday amid an investigation into allegations that he pressured a deputy to reveal her confidential testimony before a grand jury investigating the beating death of a jail inmate.
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To the sounds of “Amazing Grace” and the soft sobs of mourners, pallbearers Friday rolled three white caskets draped in white cloth down the aisle of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels in downtown Los Angeles.
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California | Local |
By Carla Hall |
12:00AM, September 6
Rielle Hunter was in a business meeting in the lounge of the Regency Hotel in New York City when she saw Sen.
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Joacim Naranjo plays the trumpet pretty well.
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The Los Angeles County district attorney has opened an investigation into whether two San Fernando Valley politicians illegally exceeded election spending limits by raising money through an independent campaign committee, sources familiar with the matter said.
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The Compton city attorney’s office is investigating a $1-per-lot sale of government land to a housing corporation that failed to receive the tax-exempt status it sought and is associated with a Los Angeles labor union mired in a spending scandal.
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A pedestrian was struck and killed by a big-rig truck today in downtown Los Angeles, authorities said.
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California | Local |
By David Kelly |
12:00AM, September 6
San Bernardino County officials Thursday took the unusual step of forcing a tuberculosis patient into medical isolation when health officials suspected the patient was not taking medication and going to work.
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After days of delay, Inglewood police officials on Friday identified the eight officers involved in last weekend’s fatal shooting of a homeless man who had a toy gun in his waistband.
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A two-acre brush fire broke out this morning in a hilly area of Sherman Oaks, but firefighters brought it under control within an hour, officials said.
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Robert Giroux, a distinguished giant of 20th century publishing who guided and supported dozens of great writers from
T.S. Eliot and Jack Kerouac to Bernard Malamud and Susan Sontag, died in his sleep early Friday morning.
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