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The Biden administration announced that it would forgive more than $6.1 billion in student debt for 317,000 former students of The Art Institutes, the once-giant chain of for-profit schools. The U.S. Department of Education concluded that the schools and its parent company, the Education Management Corporation, or EDMC, made “pervasive and substantial” misrepresentations to prospective

Thousands of the faithful made their way to Orange County to experience an opportunity of many lifetimes. For the first, and likely only time in history, the relic of St. Jude was taken out of Rome and has been touring the United States since September. Several thousand people are expected to venerate the relic where

A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled Tuesday honoring hard rock and heavy metal singer, songwriter and guitarist Sammy Hagar for a career in which he sold more than 50 million albums. Singer John Mayer and Tom Consolo, Hager’s longtime manager, were among those joining Hagar at the ceremony adjacent to Amoeba

Dozens of protesters took over a building at Columbia University in New York early Tuesday, barricading the entrances and unfurling a Palestinian flag out of a window in the latest escalation of demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war that have spread to college campuses nationwide. Video footage showed protesters on Columbia’s Manhattan campus locking arms in

The Los Angeles Lakers finally exhaled after they snapped their 11-game losing streak to the Denver Nuggets in Game 4 of their first-round playoff series Saturday night. “You kind of get that monkey off your back,” Davis said after the Game 4 victory. “But I just think the difference in the first three games, and

Two months after a Willy Wonka-inspired “Chocolate Experience” in Scotland failed so spectacularly that it cemented itself in internet meme history, a similar event in Los Angeles attracted dozens of people hoping to take part in a re-creation of the absurd experience. The original event in Glasgow, Scotland, had promised ticket buyers an immersive candy wonderland only

A man was found dead in a South Los Angeles home on Sunday after firefighters extinguished a blaze on the property. The Los Angeles Fire Department said crews were made aware of a house fire at 140 E. 71st St. around 7:30 p.m. Forty firefighters were able to knock down the fire in less than

Access to the University of Southern California’s main campus remains limited to students, faculty and staff following days of unrest that resulted in nearly 100 arrests, the cancelation of the school’s main commencement ceremony and the vandalism of the iconic Tommy Trojan statue. On Saturday, the Los Angeles Police Department issued a citywide tactical alert

Fights broke out at UCLA today among pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel supporters after a barrier was breached meant to separate the dueling groups of demonstrators. A group called Stand With Us scheduled an 11 a.m. rally to show support for Jewish students after days of often intense pro-Palestinian protests at campuses across the United States, including

One person was killed and three others were hurt overnight after a car crash-landed into a Leimert Park home, according to the Los Angeles City Fire Department. The crash was reported just before 3 a.m. Saturday on the 2600 block of Obama Boulevard. There, two vehicles crashed, causing one to shear a fire hydrant before

A Utah couple is thanking their lucky stars after they were reunited with their pet cat they accidentally shipped to an Amazon facility in Riverside while trying to make a return. Galena the cat is back home in the Beehive State after the wayward feline’s tendency to snuggle in boxes inadvertently took her on a

A 45-year-old San Pedro man has been arrested on suspicion of setting trash bins on fire in Costa Mesa, authorities said Saturday.  Detectives reviewed surveillance video and used automated license plate reader cameras to identify the suspect’s vehicle and book Shaun Michael Cloonan on suspicion of five counts of felony arson and two misdemeanor counts

Neighbors in Long Beach off Junipero Avenue and Anaheim Street are worried about a home with trash packed inside and out that was partially destroyed by a fire on Wednesday. “I’ve reported this home 10 times in the last few weeks,” said a neighbor who feared to be identified. “I’m frustrated by the lack of

A pursuit ended in a standoff in Compton on Friday after police responded to a kidnapping that was later determined to have not happened. The Long Beach Police Department said a woman near Artesia Boulevard and Myrtle Avenue told reporters shortly before 4 p.m. that she had been kidnapped by a man in a vehicle.

A woman who was driving during a road-rage confrontation on the Costa Mesa (55) Freeway that ended with her boyfriend firing a shot into another car, killing a 6-year-old boy in a car seat, pleaded guilty Friday to being an accessory to the crime and carrying a concealed weapon in the vehicle. Wynne Lee, 26,

After prosecutors’ lead witness painted a tawdry portrait of “catch and kill” tabloid schemes, defense lawyers in Donald Trump’s hush money trial are poised Friday to dig into an account of the former publisher of the National Enquirer and his efforts to protect Trump from negative stories during the 2016 election. David Pecker will return

Last month, after another regular season loss to the Denver Nuggets, LeBron James spoke candidly about his frustration playing the defending champions. “They have our number,” said James following a 124-114 loss on March 3rd. “We haven’t beaten them in quite a while.” ‘Quite a while’ is quite the understatement. It’s been 496 days and

A Brown Pelican that was found in San Pedro with a slashed pouch was released back into the wild in San Pedro Thursday after undergoing weeks of treatment and receiving more than 500 stitches. The bird, nicknamed Blue, spread her wings and took flight to join other pelicans at White Point Park Thursday morning. Russ

On the left and right, Supreme Court justices seem to agree on a basic truth about the American system of government: No one is above the law, not even the president. “The law applies equally to all persons, including a person who happens for a period of time to occupy the Presidency,” Justice Samuel Alito

A little more than a week after a man allegedly went on a shooting rampage through a Marina del Rey apartment complex, neighbors there are meeting with the LA County Sheriff’s Department to share their concerns. Many neighbors here are angered and frustrated. They said they had warned authorities and their apartment complex about their