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.
The issues are not much different, pay increases, class sizes, and more resources. This time, experts say, something is different in the latest LAUSD teachers' strike, the first in 30 years.
In 2016, Nancy Paulikas, a 55-year-old retired computer engineer diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, became separated from her husband at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Their stories appeared on SoCal Connected in 2018. Here are the five stories to keep an eye on in the coming year.
The City of Champions appears to be surging, but its classrooms continue to lose their students.
Scientists, doctors and some California politicians say climate change has arrived, and unless something is done to curtail it, the heat will continue to get worse.
Some facts about Newsome’s case did not make the report. Here they are.
Like a blindside tackle, mental illness derailed Antonio Carrion and his dreams.
Voters opening their ballots for California's June 5 primary will find an abundance of candidates. Twenty-seven people, ranging from a puppeteer to two men who served as mayors of the state's largest cities, will square off for governor.
The Torrance Unified School District will pay $31 million to 24 high school wrestlers whose coach molested them under the guise he was conducting naked “skin checks” to promote cleanliness, attorneys said Wednesday
In at least four recent cases in Southern California, attorneys defending school districts have asked judges to let them argue that young molestation victims willingly participated in sexual relationships with adults.