More than a thousand people gathered for a picnic on Saturday around tables draped with white tablecloths and spread over the lawn of the Legion of Honor art museum in San Francisco. There was just one rule: “No cake, no entry.” Attendees — including pastry chefs, home bakers and people with store-bought cakes — walked, … Read more
Los Angeles County will retest about 4,000 DNA samples connected to criminal cases after discovering that it had been using potentially defective test kits to collect evidence for the past several months, Sheriff Robert Luna said in a statement this week. The kits were “prone to intermittently poor performance,” the sheriff said on Wednesday, and … Read more
“Making It Work” is a series about small-business owners striving to endure hard times. Bird flu outbreaks that wiped out about 15 percent of the nation’s egg-laying chickens and drove wholesale egg prices to a peak of more than $8.50 a dozen in February have vexed grocery shoppers and prompted big breakfast chains to add … Read more
Los Angeles is facing a projected shortfall of nearly $1 billion next fiscal year, and significant cuts and “thousands” of layoffs are “nearly inevitable,” the top budget official told the City Council on Wednesday. The sobering forecast was the latest blow to Los Angeles officials as they grappled with the toll of the Jan. 7 … Read more