Larry Altman
Larry Altman is a veteran Southern California reporter who has been covering crime and court cases for three decades. He was named the Society of Professional Journalists' Distinguished Journalist in 2006.
"At first I didn’t believe it was true," 17-year-old Zelda Saltzman said Tuesday. "I couldn’t fathom that something that has been standing for 400 years, and where I had just sung, was completely gone."
The logo, which includes the phrase “Fort Apache,” represented the station Sheriff Alex Villanueva formerly served and was among a host of station and unit logos worn by deputies to represent pride in their job assignments.
Sheriff Alex Villanueva's recent actions raise the question whether litigation and settlement figures could rise if fired deputies return to the job.
Two of Southern California's tiny mountain lion populations are at risk of becoming extinct in as little as 50 years unless humans act to build bridges and trails to connect their habitats, a study released Wednesday said.
“I believe I’m doing the right thing,” Newsom said. “To the extent this issue is coming faster and sooner and I would be entrusted with executing 25 human beings, I cannot do that."
"This must be Rick Singer," Demoff said in an interview. "He's such an outlier it could only be him...It should be surprising, but it is not."
More than 40 people, including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, were indicted Tuesday in a complex conspiracy to get their children into colleges across the United States.
Two young sisters who disappeared into the woods near their Humboldt County home two days ago were found safe Sunday.
About 100 rescuers joined a frantic but hopeful rural community’s search Sunday for two young sisters who vanished two days ago.
According to a recent study, Los Angeles is failing when it comes to its trees. City leadership, the report said, places little value on its "urban forest," leaving it lacking in management and planning, and well behind in funding to plant new trees.
For Alexandra Syphon, wildfire is all about what fuels it. The chief scientist at Sage Underwriters, a homeowner’s insurance company, studies wildfire, how it relates to human land-use patterns, the climate and vegetation.
Burning nearly 97,000 acres in Ventura and Los Angeles counties, the Woolsey Fire that began Nov. 8 destroyed nearly 1,700 structures and killed three people. Almost 300,000 fled their homes.