The rain was pounding in the Mojave Desert on the Saturday before Easter when the first call came in about a crash along Interstate 15. Details were sketchy: head-on collision, Mercedes versus another car, a 7-year-old not breathing, a nurse on scene performing CPR.

San Bernardino County Fire Protection District Capt. Dan Tellez and his crew ...Read more

ATLANTA — An estimated 96,030 college students will be graduating in Georgia this year — a state that gained 116,077 new residents in 2023 alone. That’s a lot of people looking for work. Luckily, the Peach State’s capital was just ranked as the best place to start a career in the entire country.

“Atlanta is the best place to start a ...Read more

Heather Crivilare was a month from her due date when she was rushed to an operating room for an emergency cesarean section.

The first-time mother, a high school teacher in rural Illinois, had developed high blood pressure, a sometimes life-threatening condition in pregnancy that prompted doctors to hospitalize her. Then Crivilare’s blood ...Read more

There are certain candidates who have lived their lives like perfectly calibrated political arrows, arcing ever upward through all the right stops toward higher office.

Not Laura Friedman.

The Glendale Assembly member, who will probably soon take Rep. Adam B. Schiff's prized congressional seat, spent her 20s with a $600 custom pool cue stick ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — What does "permanent" mean?

For more than 100 people still living at the massive Westside apartment complex Barrington Plaza one year after their owner sought to evict them, a judge's answer to that question, expected soon, is vital to their future.

People who live in rent-controlled properties, such as Barrington Plaza, enjoy ...Read more

Junior psychology major Erin Green works part time at the children’s preschool at Sonoma State University, caring for university employees’ kids ages 1 to 5. Some of the non-student workers in her center belong to a union. But she didn’t, until just a few weeks ago.

Green, a 49-year-old returning student who works 20 hours a week, said ...Read more

Kori Thompson had long wrestled with the idea of having a child.

The 24-year-old worried about the world a kid would face as climate change overtook the globe, fearing the environmental devastation and economic strain that could follow. He had been thinking about getting a vasectomy ever since he learned about the sterilization procedure from a...Read more

Meta Getman heard the news out of Alabama and, suddenly, she was right back in it.

Getman and her husband had spent more than three years struggling with infertility — including four rounds of intrauterine insemination (IUI), three rounds of in vitro fertilization (IVF) and a six-month pause to weigh next steps — before eventually opting to...Read more

SEATTLE —More than 74,000 people on Whidbey Island could face long-term health impacts from the U.S. Navy jet noise that's blasted over residents several days a week for over a decade, new research shows.

A study from the University of Washington, published last week in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, reports ...Read more

The FDA never inspected Johns Dental Laboratories during more than a decade in which it made the Anterior Growth Guidance Appliance, or “AGGA,” a dental device that has allegedly harmed patients and is now the subject of a criminal investigation.

According to FDA documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, the agency “...Read more

He started his presentation to the Sandy Springs Rotary Club by explaining how the Fulton County Superior Court works. But after a few minutes Scott McAfee switched gears, delving into what he described as his “personal research project.”

Working through a slideshow that included historic drawings, a quote from Winston Churchill and another...Read more

IRVINE, Calif. — Police began making arrests Wednesday evening on the campus of UC Irvine several hours into a pro-Palestinian demonstration in which protesters occupied and barricaded a university building.

A Times reporter witnessed officers taking a protester away in plastic zip ties who identified themselves as a global studies professor ...Read more

The risk of power failures this summer remains elevated for many parts of North America amid soaring demand and generator shutdowns.

The main Texas grid is especially vulnerable at sunset when solar generation plunges and demand remains high, with the riskiest hour from 8 to 9 p.m. in August, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. said ...Read more

CHICAGO — Gerald Reed, who has long alleged he was a victim of police torture, was acquitted Wednesday after a retrial of his double-murder case, killings for which he had spent some three decades in prison.

In a meticulous ruling from the bench, Circuit Judge Steven Watkins said over and over that there was no forensic evidence, no ...Read more

Thousands of unionized graduate student workers at University of California campuses across the state are poised to walk off the job after members voted to authorize leadership to call a strike, escalating tensions stemming from the university’s response to pro-Palestinian protests on campus.

The university confirmed the strike authorization ...Read more

Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Wednesday defended his department’s efforts to roll out a series of rule changes this year to try and stabilize California’s insurance market as he faced pointed questions and calls for greater urgency from lawmakers.

Lara said the department was still on track to complete the revisions by the end of ...Read more

If the British royal family was looking for a public relations win after Princess Catherine's Photoshop fails, the unveiling of King Charles' newest royal portrait was not it.

"I'm sorry, but this portrait looks like he's in hell," one person posted in comments under artist Jonathan Yeo's and the royal family's joint Instagram post revealing ...Read more

A Muslim prayer leader who made inflammatory comments about Jews and Israel is facing intense backlash from Jewish lawmakers who want the state of Florida to revoke his dental license and strip public funding for a school owned and operated by his mosque in North Miami.

The comments made last month by Dr. Fadi Kablawi — an imam at Masjid As ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican Joe Fraser of Minnetrista has never run for political office, yet the retired Naval intelligence officer and business executive is vying to oust Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a popular incumbent seeking a fourth-term.

It's Klobuchar's first race since her unsuccessful presidential bid in 2020 and Fraser sees an opening for a ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration is asking the Legislature to give it more control over when Californians pay their state taxes, an issue that stems from tax return delays due to severe weather.

Atmospheric rivers in early 2023 brought rain and floods to California. That prompted the federal and state governments to ...Read more