LOS ANGELES — The man and the woman had connected through the dating app Tinder and chatted on WhatsApp before eventually meeting in person for a date.

He arrived with wine in his backpack; later, they withdrew to his Mexico City apartment.

The next thing she knew, the woman was crying in the back of an ambulance, according to court ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Marina del Rey's harbor produced an unexpected light show Wednesday evening as a luxury yacht loaded with ammunition and fireworks burned for more than two hours before flames were extinguished, authorities said.

Flames leaped 20 to 30 feet from the 100-foot vessel, dubbed the Admiral, while live ammunition rounds could be heard...Read more

The U.S. has warned its allies that Russia is targeting cargo shipping companies as it seeks to disrupt Ukraine’s partners, according to people familiar with the matter.

While Russia has focused cyberattacks and other so-called hybrid actions on shipping firms and ports before, its hostile actions are evolving with intensified sabotage as ...Read more

CHICAGO — By the time a federal jury delivered their verdict Wednesday evening, awarding Jomaury Champ’s family $750,000 in damages, the CPS student, who’s now 15, had long left the courtroom.

On the last day of a civil trial focused on the beating he’d endured as a fourth-grade Tilton Elementary School student, Champ had walked out ...Read more

A U.S. Senate committee on Thursday voted to pursue seeking civil enforcement and criminal charges against the CEO of troubled Steward Health Care System for ignoring a legal order to testify about the company’s finances and mishandling of its hospitals.

“Dr. de la Torre has made clear through his corporate attorneys, his lavish spending ...Read more

CHICAGO — A former executive at Outcome Health – who was the star witness against his bosses in a trial last year – was sentenced to seven months in prison on Thursday for his role in what prosecutors have called a $1 billion fraud at the company.

Before sentencing, former Outcome executive Ashik Desai stood before the judge and ...Read more

Jennifer Heath Box did not understand why she was being handcuffed and arrested when she was coming off a seven-night Royal Caribbean cruise at Port Everglades on Christmas Eve 2022. Law enforcement officials tried to explain that they had a warrant for her arrest on charges of child endangerment.

The photo attached to the warrant was taken ...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal jury in the bribery trial of former AT&T Illinois boss Paul La Schiazza, accused of funneling payments to an ally of Michael Madigan to win the speaker’s support for legislation in Springfield, has told the judge overseeing the case they may be deadlocked.

“What happens if we feel we are at a stalemate and feel that it...Read more

CHICAGO — The smell of burnt cannabis alone is insufficient to justify a warrantless police search of an automobile, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

The ruling stems from a traffic stop in 2020 of Ryan Redmond, who police said had an improperly secured registration on his license plate and was traveling 73 miles-per-hour in a 70-...Read more

DENVER — For Greyhound’s front-line bus agent Loretta Hamilton, a Regional Transportation District executive decision this month to boot her company from Union Station raises the question of whether Denver wants to push away low-income and vulnerable people from public view.

Each day she faces a parade of travelers, including a Viking ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Remembrance events marking the seventh anniversary of the October 1, 2017 Las Vegas Strip mass shooting are set for the Clark County Government Center in downtown Las Vegas.

A Sunrise Remembrance Ceremony will be at 7:30 a.m. Oct. 1.

Sixty people were killed in the shooting attack during the Route 91 Harvest Festival, and ...Read more

NEW YORK — A state appellate panel has reinstated the murder charge against a state trooper who twice rammed the car of a civilian motorist, killing 11-year-old Monica Goods of Brooklyn during a high speed chase in December 2020, according to the decision released Thursday.

Four of the five judges on the appeals panel for the Third Judicial ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Standardizing the curriculum was a priority when Superintendent Tony B. Watlington Sr. came to Philadelphia, and he allocated millions in federal stimulus funds to purchase new, research-based programs: Math rolled out last school year, and English late last month.

The district spent $25 million on two sets of English Language ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A homeless woman who claims she was subjected to unlivable conditions while living at a Sacramento motel then evicted is suing the county.

In addition to the county, the lawsuit, filed Aug. 29 in Sacramento Superior Court, names other governmental entities including the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency, the ...Read more

Nearly two dozen former employees of Mohamed Al-Fayed — father of Princess Diana’s partner Dodi Fayed, who died alongside the royal in 1997 — are accusing the late billionaire of having raped or otherwise sexually assaulted them.

The former owner of Harrods, who died at 94 in August 2023, allegedly raped as many as five women, with over ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Thursday increased odds that a developing system could head into the Gulf of Mexico and become a tropical depression or storm, while it also kept tabs on two systems in the Atlantic.

As of its 8 a.m. tropical outlook, a broad area of low pressure is forecast to form by early next week over the ...Read more

ATLANTA — Legal challenges are continuing to mount against a new Biden administration regulation that sought to expand the rights of migrant farmworkers on seasonal visas and give them more leeway to engage in union-related activities.

Late last month, a federal judge in Georgia blocked the regulation from taking effect within the state and ...Read more