An Orange County agency has dropped a long-discussed proposal to develop new public restrooms aimed at serving the local homeless population. Though Costa Mesa Sanitary District board members didn’t take an official action at their meeting Thursday, they appeared in agreement that there isn’t enough…

Student and community leaders voted this week to create a second neighborhood council for Westwood, the neighborhood around UCLA, promising to support revitalized nightlife and housing development and to be more inclusive to students and renters. More than 2,000 students, residents, business owners…

He’s out. It looked for a while as though USC President C.L. Max Nikias might survive a series of headline-making scandals that have rocked his prestigious university, which draws students from around the world. He took shots the last two years from editorial writers, columnists and other critics…

Just as C.L. Max Nikias was about to assume the responsibilities as the University of Southern California’s president in 2010, the university was reeling from NCAA sanctions levied against its athletic program. Citing a lack of institutional control and unethical conduct, the NCAA erased the accomplishments…

Maria Nava took a deep breath and looked at her partner one last time before stepping onto the dance floor. “Remember,” she told him. “Slow down.” “OK,” Eugene Figueroa said. Moments later, the crowd roared as the two 10-year-olds from Estrella Elementary School joined about 170 other fifth-graders…

Technically speaking, it was a coincidence that USC President C.L. Max Nikias agreed to step down on the same day that disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein surrendered himself to a courtroom in lower Manhattan. In the greater scheme of things, however, it was a bicoastal convergence of karmic…

Susan Burton took the bus home from prison six times, with “a buck-fifty left in my pocket,” she said, no ID and her worldly possessions in a box. In the two decades since her last Greyhound lap, Burton and her Watts-based group, A New Way of Life Reentry Project, have…

Last year, Matthew Johnston logged on to his Facebook account to vent. Going to be deleting a lot of people off of Facebook. Just realized how many fake people I have on here, he wrote. But at the time Johnston might have been the biggest faker on his own Facebook…

A 55-year-old woman who was previously described as a person of interest in the slayings of three people in Leimert Park has been charged with murder, authorities said Friday. Nancy Jackson was taken into custody Tuesday in the Culver City area, said Los Angeles Police Capt. Petter Whittingham….

Fourteen more women have sued USC alleging that a campus gynecologist sexually abused them during medical exams and that the university failed to take action when patients and clinic staff complained about his behavior. The new filings brought the total number of women suing the university by Friday…

A timeline of scandals during the tenure of C.L. Max Nikias, who is stepping down as USC’s president.

USC President C.L. Max Nikias, whose tenure was marked by a significant boost in the university’s prestige and fundraising prowess but tarnished by a series of damaging scandals, is stepping down from his post, the university’s Board of Trustees announced Friday. The move comes after more than…

When the 34-year-old woman saw the news Thursday morning, she couldn’t help but smirk. The world had been holding its breath for the unprecedented summit between a sitting U.S. president and North Korea’s leader, but she knew better than to get her hopes up. Many were caught off guard when…

Laszlo Tabori, who in 1955 became the third man to break the four-minute barrier in the mile and later coached distance runners at USC, died Wednesday. He was 86. The school said the Hungarian-born Tabori died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. No cause was given. Tabori joined Roger Bannister and…

In a milestone for the #metoo movement, disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein turned himself in to New York authorities Friday morning to face sexual assault charges. Weinstein was taken into custody as prosecutors prepared to file criminal charges against him, the first in what has been months…

Bee Hall remembers when Leimert Park was the heart and soul of a vibrant black Los Angeles. The blare of the horns and the beat of the drums filled the streets. Freshly brewed coffee wafted out of Fifth Street Dick’s cafe. Artists and art lovers perused galleries adorned with black…

Images of the battleship USS Missouri.

University of California regents on Thursday unanimously approved a leaner, more transparent budget for President Janet Napolitano, moving to address political criticism over the system’s central office operations. The $876.4-million budget for 2018-19 reflects spending cuts of 2%, including reductions…

Hundreds of protesters staged a midday sit-in and march in Koreatown against a planned temporary homeless shelter. The march and rally by 300 protesters began at 11:30 a.m. at Vermont Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard and continued to Normandie Avenue. The Wilshire Community Coalition says the city…

USC’s large and powerful Board of Trustees is coming under growing pressure to provide a stronger hand as the university faces a crisis over misconduct allegations against the campus’ longtime gynecologist that has prompted calls for President C.L. Max Nikias to step down. Allegations that Dr….

In the less than two weeks since Austin Beutner took charge of Los Angeles schools, unions representing teachers and administrators have staged a job action and a protest. They’ve made it clear that they will not give the new superintendent the traditional honeymoon period, and are bashing him…

Harvey Weinstein is expected to turn himself in to face charges in New York related to allegations of sexual assault, in what would mark the first criminal charges faced by the disgraced former movie mogul, sources familar with the case said Thursday. The sources said the case involves actress…

Jim McDonnell was in his first year as Los Angeles County sheriff, leading the agency after a highly publicized jail abuse scandal, when he charged his staff with an unusual request. He wanted his department to have a theme song, like in the U.S. military, where each branch has an…

Ansel Adams, in the midst of a three-week promotional tour for his book “Yosemite and the Range of Light,” broke into laughter over a question about his famous nose. Former Los Angeles Times staff photographer Martha Harnett explained an unpublished caption on the back of the print: Photographer…

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