CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
January 15, 2014 | By Hannah Fry
The roughly dozen Corona del Mar High students accused of hacking into the school's computers to access tests and change grades are still facing the possibility of expulsion from the district, Newport-Mesa Unified officials confirmed Tuesday afternoon. The district made the clarification after published reports that Newport-Mesa was considering a disciplinary measure known as "restorative justice," the Daily Pilot reported. The district this school year moved away from the longtime zero-tolerance policy and began using restorative justice, which encourages students to develop empathy and understand the reasons for their actions.
ENTERTAINMENT
October 10, 2013 | By David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times Book Critic
Richard Rodriguez's "Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography" appears at first to have been mistitled; it is neither a book about the spirit, strictly, nor an autobiography in any common sense. Rather, it's a collection of essays - some of which were originally published in Harper's, Kenyon Review and the Wilson Quarterly - that approach the larger questions of faith and character through a broad array of filters, from the 9/11 terrorist attacks to the legacy of Cesar Chavez, the collapse of newspapers to the reimagining of public space in a digital age. "I did not intend to write a spiritual autobiography," Rodriguez acknowledges in a brief "Note to the Reader.
WORLD
October 1, 2013 | By Mery Mogollon and Chris Kraul
CARACAS, Venezuela - President Nicolas Maduro's expulsion Monday of three U.S. diplomats was another sign of the increasingly dire problems Venezuela's government faces and the extreme measures he is taking to try to divert supporters' attention from them, analysts said. In a speech commemorating the 200th anniversary of a revolutionary battle in western Falcon state, Maduro said he was expelling acting charges d'affaires Kelly Keiderling, Elizabeth Hoffman and David Moo for allegedly meeting with opposition figures and “taking actions to sabotage the electricity system.” Maduro had previously charged right-wing opponents with sabotage last month in connection with the outage of a high voltage transmission line in western Venezuela that caused blackouts across the country.
NATIONAL
September 3, 2013 | By John M. Glionna
Neal Freitas thinks the system worked. On Tuesday, the Nevada school board member applauded a recent federal appeals court ruling that upheld the expulsion of a former student who referenced the Virginia Tech massacre and threatened violence against classmates through social media five years ago. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that Landon Wynar's threats to massacre classmates at Douglas High School in the town...
NATIONAL
March 27, 2013 | By Cindy Carcamo and Michael Mello
TUCSON -- Jared Loughner's father described his son as “too smart for his own good” and said he “was just never the same” after he was kicked out of a community college and fired from a mall job, according to investigative records released Wednesday. Loughner, who pleaded guilty in August in the rampage that killed six and injured 13, was an “outcast” who didn't have anymore friends, according to his father, Randy Loughner, who was interviewed by authorities a few hours after the shooting.
BUSINESS
March 12, 2013 | By Ricardo Lopez
The just-expelled Better Business Bureau of the Southland has no plans to end its mission of fighting for southern California consumers. The former Los Angeles affiliate of Council of Better Business Bureaus has renamed itself the Business Consumer Alliance and is going on the offensive after being booted from the council Tuesday over allegations that it strong-armed businesses into paying cash for inflated ratings. As a result, the new group can no longer use the BBB name or logo.