When using ‘Find My iPhone’ takes you to a thief’s doorstep
WEST COVINA, Calif. — After a boozy Saturday night, Sarah Maguire awoke the next morning to find that her iPhone was gone. Her roommate’s phone was gone, too. Were they at the bar, she wondered, or in...
View ArticleSanta Barbara Sheriff’s Office faces queries in fatal shootings
LOS ANGELES — A week after Elliot Rodger’s rampage in Isla Vista, Calif., left six other college students dead and 13 people wounded, state lawmakers are calling for an investigation of the Santa...
View ArticleTourists flood Calif.’s Catalina, but island is running dry
AVALON, Calif. — Just an hourlong ferry ride from Los Angeles, Catalina Island is enjoying a renaissance. After years of declining tourism, businesses here have spent more than $40 million updating...
View ArticleBerkeley votes to provide free medical marijuana to the poor
BERKELEY, Calif. — Since the birth of the Free Speech Movement half a century ago, this city has prided itself on its liberal values and policies, be they generous benefits for the needy or a...
View ArticleCalifornia island running dry amid tourism boom
AVALON, Calif. — Just an hourlong ferry ride from Los Angeles, Catalina Island is enjoying a renaissance. After years of declining tourism, businesses here have spent more than $40 million updating...
View ArticleIn affluent areas of California, water use remains high even in drought
RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif. — In these hills overlooking San Diego, the only indication of the continuing drought — now among the worst in California’s recorded history — is the perpetually cloudless sky....
View ArticleIn affluent areas of California, water use remains high even in drought
Residents of the Santa Fe Irrigation District in California used an average of 584 gallons of water a day, nearly five times the average for coastal Southern California. Although drought has blanketed...
View ArticleFires in West leave residents gasping on soot left behind
In California’s San Joaquin Valley, the air and soot are effectively trapped in a geographic bowl for much of the summer, and the lack of wind and rain has made it impossible for things to clear out.
View ArticleOregon gunman is recalled as reclusive, ‘anxious’
Neighbors remember Chris Harper Mercer as a seemingly fragile young man with a shaved head and dark glasses who appeared to recoil from social interaction.
View ArticleLAX airport approves a private lounge for the rich and famous
For a fee, a movie star, sports legend, diplomat, business magnate or regular private citizen who craves privacy will be able to enter through a private gate, avoid the infamous airport traffic and...
View ArticleWhen using ‘Find My iPhone’ takes you to a thief’s doorstep
WEST COVINA, Calif. — After a boozy Saturday night, Sarah Maguire awoke the next morning to find that her iPhone was gone. Her roommate’s phone was gone, too. Were they at the bar, she wondered, or in...
View ArticleSanta Barbara Sheriff’s Office faces queries in fatal shootings
LOS ANGELES — A week after Elliot Rodger’s rampage in Isla Vista, Calif., left six other college students dead and 13 people wounded, state lawmakers are calling for an investigation of the Santa...
View ArticleTourists flood Calif.’s Catalina, but island is running dry
AVALON, Calif. — Just an hourlong ferry ride from Los Angeles, Catalina Island is enjoying a renaissance. After years of declining tourism, businesses here have spent more than $40 million updating...
View ArticleBerkeley votes to provide free medical marijuana to the poor
BERKELEY, Calif. — Since the birth of the Free Speech Movement half a century ago, this city has prided itself on its liberal values and policies, be they generous benefits for the needy or a...
View ArticleCalifornia island running dry amid tourism boom
AVALON, Calif. — Just an hourlong ferry ride from Los Angeles, Catalina Island is enjoying a renaissance. After years of declining tourism, businesses here have spent more than $40 million updating...
View ArticleIn affluent areas of California, water use remains high even in drought
RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif. — In these hills overlooking San Diego, the only indication of the continuing drought — now among the worst in California’s recorded history — is the perpetually cloudless sky....
View ArticleWhen using ‘Find My iPhone’ takes you to a thief’s doorstep
WEST COVINA, Calif. — After a boozy Saturday night, Sarah Maguire awoke the next morning to find that her iPhone was gone. Her roommate’s phone was gone, too. Were they at the bar, she wondered, or in...
View ArticleSanta Barbara Sheriff’s Office faces queries in fatal shootings
LOS ANGELES — A week after Elliot Rodger’s rampage in Isla Vista, Calif., left six other college students dead and 13 people wounded, state lawmakers are calling for an investigation of the Santa...
View ArticleTourists flood Calif.’s Catalina, but island is running dry
AVALON, Calif. — Just an hourlong ferry ride from Los Angeles, Catalina Island is enjoying a renaissance. After years of declining tourism, businesses here have spent more than $40 million updating...
View ArticleBerkeley votes to provide free medical marijuana to the poor
BERKELEY, Calif. — Since the birth of the Free Speech Movement half a century ago, this city has prided itself on its liberal values and policies, be they generous benefits for the needy or a...
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