MICHAEL R. BLOOD

13 - 12:32am

LOS ANGELES — The mounting bill tied to the shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant in California jumped to more than $400 million through December, as the company that runs it contends with costly repairs and a host of questions about its future, regulatory filings and officials said Tuesday.

Comments: (7) | Login to post a comment

Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart dies in Los Angeles 03/02/12 - 12:38am

LOS ANGELES — Andrew Breitbart used the Internet relentlessly to ignite political scandal and expose what he saw as media bias, even if he sometimes had to edit the facts to do it. The fiery online publisher and blogger who collapsed and died Thursday at 43 relished public combat with liberals — a YouTube clip last month shows him bellowing at Occupy Wall Street protesters, "Stop raping people, you freaks!" Yet the conservatives and tea party activists who loved him said he exposed corrupt leaders and what he called the hopelessly liberal "old media guard."

Los Angeles police probe motive in arson spree 01/03/12 - 9:41am

LOS ANGELES — It was another night of firefighters scrambling across the nation's second largest city to snuff out a series of arson attacks when a tip came in about a German man who matched the description of someone with a shoulder-length ponytail captured on a surveillance video near where a car fire was reported.

Police: More cars set afire in LA, arson suspected 01/01/12 - 1:44am

LOS ANGELES — Several more cars burned in suspected arson attacks in the Los Angeles area early Saturday morning, and authorities investigated if they were connected to nearly two dozen deliberately set blazes a day earlier, police said. Seven or eight cars burned Saturday in the North Hollywood area, said officer Robert Collier. He said he didn’t have further details of the blazes, but said arson is suspected and there could be a link to the earlier blazes. “We believe there might be, but we don’t know for sure,” he said.

Firefighters chase arson blazes in Hollywood area 12/31/11 - 1:14am

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An arsonist swept through the Hollywood area under the cover of dark early Friday, torching vehicles whose flames ignited nearby houses, including one once occupied by Doors frontman Jim Morrison. The four-hour onslaught started shortly after midnight and sent firefighters scrambling to douse fires in 21 locations in Hollywood and the neighboring city of West Hollywood. In nearly every case, the fire started in a parked car.

Perry makes California swing with eye on 2012 06/29/11 - 12:10am

LOS ANGELES - Texas Gov. Rick Perry will swing through California this week for private meetings with Republican leaders, potential fundraisers and legislators that will stoke speculation that he plans to enter the 2012 Republican presidential contest.

Soon to be out of office, Governor Schwarzenegger may return to movies, write 01/03/11 - 1:30am

LOS ANGELES — The Terminator always said he’d be back.

None of the above looms large in Nevada Senate race 10/31/10 - 12:40am

LAS VEGAS — Choosing “none of the above,” the default option on quizzes, is looming as a potential factor in the dead-heat Nevada Senate race for voters who don’t like either Democrat Harry Reid or Republican Sharron Angle.

Nevada's Angel backs off comment about taking out Reid, her opponent for senate seat 07/03/10 - 9:15am

AP POLITICAL WRITER LOS ANGELES (AP) - Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle says she doesn’t want to “take out” Sen. Harry Reid after all. The Republican nominee backed away Tuesday from a statement she made earlier this year in which she referred to the Second Amendment “remedies” and the need to “take Harry Reid out.” Angle says the phrase is too strong and she should have said she wanted to “defeat” the Democratic leader in November. She says she was talking broadly.

Comments: (12) | Login to post a comment

Palin tells desert tea party rally home-state Sen. Reid is 'fired' 03/29/10 - 2:13pm

SEARCHLIGHT, Nev. - Sarah Palin told thousands of tea party activists assembled in the dusty Nevada desert Saturday that Sen. Harry Reid will have to explain his votes when he comes back to his hometown to campaign.