Dear Eric: Several months ago, a group of friends and I planned a vacation trip for this coming fall. We pre-paid the hotel costs, all-inclusive fees and paid for round-trip airline tickets. A few weeks ago, I received a “save the date” postcard from my nephew and his fiancée. The wedding will be held in […]

Six people were injured Sunday when an empty car drifted from its parking spot and plowed into vendors and employees at a community festival in Pittsburgh.

For nine years, Karen Musick stood outside the Little Rock Family Planning Services clinic in Arkansas, protecting women arriving for their abortion appointments from anti-abortion protesters who regularly gathered there. After retiring from her job as a loan specialist with the Small Business Administration, Musick was filled with purpose as a clinic escort volunteer. “I […]

This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project,  a nonprofit news organization covering the US criminal justice system. April Lee was still functional in her opioid addiction, still walking her kids to school in Philadelphia, preparing her infant daughter’s bottles, when a sexual assault sent her teetering over the edge. She had been drugged at a […]

Two Redondo Beach residents were restrained with zip-ties while masked suspects burglarized their home on Sunday morning, police confirmed. It happened just before 6 a.m. on the 1900 block of Mathews Avenue, where a large police presence was then seen investigating for hours on Sunday. Law enforcement’s activity in the area, however, was not initially […]

At the New York City Bar Association, we rarely discuss the internal workings of our Judiciary Committee. That’s intentional. Judicial vetting is one of our most solemn responsibilities, demanding discretion, integrity, and impartiality. But recent commentary — and the decision by the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on the Judiciary (MACJ) to end our long-standing partnership — makes it important to explain why having both processes matters.

A Saturday morning confrontation between federal immigration agents and a local family in San Bernardino escalated into gunfire and a seven-hour standoff before ending without arrests, according to both advocates and police. The incident began at about 8:40 a.m. on August 16, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stopped a man near 1030 N. Mountain […]

A firefighter-paramedic with the L.A. County Fire Department died while in the line of duty on Friday, the department confirmed. The crew member was identified as FPPM Jerry W. Guzman. Guzman was assigned to Fire Station 32 in Azusa. According to a L.A. County Fire Department social media post, Guzman served the department and […]