Laura Nelson

Jan 9, 2025 | yahoo.com | Terry Castleman |Julia Wick |Laura Nelson

Across Los Angeles, phones rang loudly with an alert to evacuate just before 4 p.m. on Thursday. The city Emergency Management Department said the alert was sent "in ERROR." "Evacuation orders have not changed," the department said in a post on X. Times staff across the metropolitan area — from Long Beach to Echo Park and beyond — received the alert, which did not appear to discriminate by distance from any particular fire.

Jan 8, 2025 | yahoo.com | Laura Nelson |Rebecca Ellis |Noah Haggerty |Daniel Miller |Jack Dolan |Ruben Vives | +1 more

By Wednesday morning, it looked as if a bomb had detonated on Sunset Boulevard. As the catastrophic Palisades fire receded from one of the city’s iconic thoroughfares, smoke and ash rendered the once-picturesque landscape into something oddly lunar. Read more: Homes, structures 'in the thousands' are burned in Palisades, Eaton, officials say; more fire weather aheadThere were charred buildings, some slightly damaged, others fully destroyed.

Sep 18, 2024 | yahoo.com | Laura Nelson

The camera pans over framed photographs of five little boys with crew cuts, wide smiles and button-down shirts, as Orange County congressional candidate Scott Baugh says: "There were five brothers. One had his struggles. I miss him, every day.""Addiction doesn't care if you're Republican or Democrat," Baugh says.

Sep 15, 2024 | yahoo.com | Faith E. Pinho |Laura Nelson |Richard Winton

The man authorities say is being investigated for bringing a gun to a Florida golf course while former President Trump played there Sunday flew to Ukraine in 2022 to help in the country's war against Russia, an effort that he said left him disillusioned. Authorities have not formally named Ryan Wesley Routh as a suspect, and he has not been charged. But law enforcement sources confirmed to The Times that Routh was taken into custody and that he had spent time in Hawaii and North Carolina.

Jul 16, 2024 | yahoo.com | Laura Nelson |Andrea Castillo

As more Democrats call for President Biden to step aside before the Democratic National Convention, the 81-year-old president has responded with a clear message: I'm not going anywhere. "I beat him once, and I will beat him again," Biden said of President Trump during a news conference last week in Washington. And on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," the president told his skeptics: "Run against me. Go ahead. Announce for president.