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Passengers wear masks during a coronavirus breakout on the Metro train in Downtown Los Angeles. | Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials announced free service will be provided on Election Day, Nov. 3, and vote-by-mail ballot drop off boxes have been placed at 19 rail and bus stations.
People walking and bike riding on USC campus on March 9, 2020 | Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images
The COVID-19 pandemic has created uncertainties about when -- and even if -- colleges can resume. Here is the latest on what colleges have announced.
Lori Loughlin, center, and her husband Mossimo Giannulli, behind her at right, leave the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston on Aug. 27, 2019 | John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe/Getty Images
Actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion-designer husband Mossimo Giannulli have agreed to plead guilty in Boston to federal conspiracy charges for their roles in the college admissions scandal and will spend time behind bars, prosecutors announced today.
Student taking a SAT practice test | Still from SoCal Connected's "Under Pressure"
The University of California Board of Regents voted unanimously Thursday to eliminate ACT and SAT exams as admissions requirements, setting aside the controversial tests that many believe favor the wealthy.
City Councilman Jose Huizar stands at podium with people behind him, holding signs reading "Affordable Housing Now" | Courtesy Office of Jose Huizar
Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar, long considered the central figure in a nearly two-year federal bribery and corruption probe at City Hall, was arrested today at his Boyle Heights home.
Steve Pyne
The firefight is the great set-piece of American fire management.
Wow! What wonderful — but also disturbing — responses we got from our story on Roz Lee!
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Yale University cost me $7800 in 1973. So what financial advice do I have for today’s college-bound kids besides marry rich or learn to love the outback?
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Want to heal Southern California's environment?
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Hearing experts prognosticate on our planet’s fate is anything but reassuring
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Last week’s SoCal Connected story on billboards seems to have gotten the attention of our city’s leaders.
An at-a-glance overview of the propositions on the ballot for November 4th.
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