A labor leader for Los Angeles firefighters came under scrutiny for allegedly buying union cars with discounts — and then reported lower sales prices to the state to avoid taxes, two people familiar with the deal told The Times. Domingo Albarran Jr., Little Los Angeles Fire Department Captain Domingo Albarran Jr. Sources said the upcoming…
Adnan Syed spent more than two decades in jail while fighting charges killing his former high school girlfriend, and he will remain free after a judge in Baltimore on Thursday reduced his sentence to the time of delivery. The ruling effectively brought an end to a sensing case that received widespread attention starting in 2014,…
Ami Mahler Salinas Davis first met Yolanda Marodi while playing on the same kicking team a few years ago. One day in 2022, they started talking and Yolanda learned that Ami was riding a motorcycle and told her that she had to meet her wife, Rebecca Marodi. Yolanda Marodi, also known as Yolanda Olejniczak, is…
Authorities announced this week that the body of a man who disappeared while fishing for ice on a Minnesota lake has been recovered. The man was identified as 58-year-old Troy Allen Krenz, fishing on Cannon Lake in Faribot, about 50 miles south of Minneapolis, about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to the Rice County Sheriff's Office….
EU leaders are facing one of the biggest challenges in the group's history, as Russia's aggressive Russia shrouds the East, while US support swings from the West. On Thursday, they promised to face the challenge. Leaders gathered at a specially convened meeting in Brussels to discuss how Europe’s own defense and its support for Ukraine…
Nicola Lees, director of the Aspen Museum of Art, believes that artists can help us redefine interdisciplinary leadership. Photo: Flora Hanitijo In 2017, it was widely believed that artists were not only creators of aesthetic objects. They are wizards, wizards, and most importantly, they can solve all the problems we face, both personally and politically….
War, cross-border conflict and geopolitical unrest are rarely considered favorable to businesses. However, this appears to be the impact of Russian invasion of Ukraine on the two neighbors of the invaders, Finland and Sweden. Of course not direct. Instead, it was the reaction of the two Nordic countries to the invasion that turned fear into…
Roy Ayers, a tremoloist who helped pioneer a new, more stylish jazz in the 1970s, became one of many artists following hip-hop artists, a touchstone for many, who died Tuesday in Manhattan. He is 84 years old. His son Mtume announced his death, and his son Mtume declared him dead due to a prolonged illness….
Another day of cold, wet weather drove away for Southern California on Thursday, and after the dry winter began, there was another beneficial moisture. Bryan Lewis, a meteorologist with the Oxnard National Weather Service, said the storm is expected to drop to one-tenth to one-quarter of an inch of rainfall on the coast on Thursday…
Alexandr Wang attended the 2024 Metropolitan Gala in New York City. Getty Images from the Metropolitan Museum/ Alexandr Wang, 28-year-old AI-scale founder and CEO, has recently dominated technology news headlines as he calls the U.S. government for more support for his industry. Last month, entrepreneurs talked about AI’s contribution to U.S. job growth and the…