Category: Government

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The Los Angeles City Council is expected to vote today on whether to ban single-use plastic bags.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — A former USC professor of sexuality wanted for allegedly engaging in sex with minors overseas and producing child pornography became the 500th person added to the FBI’s list of its Ten Most Wanted fugitives, federal officials said today.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti announced today that he hired his chief of staff for the past five years to stick with him in the same capacity when he is installed as the city’s chief executive next month.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — A plastic surgeon acquitted of charges that he secretly videotaped undressed female patients during post-operative exams is still waiting to be cleared by the state’s medical board, his attorney said today.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Authorities today reminded Southlanders to take common-sense precautions as the 2013 fire season continues.

DOWNEY, Calif. — The city of Downey was one of 10 communities named 2013 All-America Cities by the National Civic League at its meeting Sunday in Denver, Colo.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — An average 5 percent system-wide Metrolink fare increase will go effect July 1 to help close a $10.2 million funding gap for the 2013-14 fiscal year caused by an increase in operating expenses, a system official said.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — A man shot to death in an unincorporated area near South Los Angeles was identified today.

LONG BEACH, Calif. — The Long Beach woman who falsely accused football player Brian Banks of rape has been ordered to pay $1.6 million in expenses incurred by the school district where the crime supposedly had occurred, plus $1 million in damages, it was reported today.

COMPTON, Calif. — A jury today awarded $8 million to the parents of a man killed in a deputy-involved shooting in  Willowbrook in 2010.