Beginning this week, The Times expands its state, regional and local news coverage in a newly designed California section. The DMV threatens to stop making the UCLA specialty tags if sales don't reach 7,500 a year, as required by new law. At least three people were injured Monday night in a six-car accident on the westbound Ventura Freeway that closed all but one lane of traffic. Store owners sue Beverly Hills to stop the project. City says the new structure would add spaces.
Activists see it as the end of a long battle.
Officials deny it. Four were identified as suspects at the trial of a fifth youth in the fatal bludgeoning. They deny the allegation. Eight years after leading the push for term limits on elected city officials, Mayor Richard Riordan on Monday said that in retrospect City Council members should have been allowed to serve up to 12 years in office rather than eight. Two attorneys for Sara Jane Olson, alleged to be a former member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, have been charged with misdemeanors for allegedly disclosing the addresses and phone numbers of two police witnesses in her upcoming conspiracy trial.