Larry Altman
Larry Altman is a veteran Southern California reporter who has been covering crime and court cases for three decades. He was named the Society of Professional Journalists' Distinguished Journalist in 2006.
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On Sunday, as the number of COVID-19 cases increased to 335 in California, including six deaths, Gov. Gavin Newsom called on operators of bars and nightclubs to close.
Cats helped UC Davis vets who treated them study the medical effects that burns and smoke, and perhaps stress, have on the feline heart, which could help doctors understand how an increase in wildfires affects the human body.
Los Angeles voters face some key decisions on March 3, deciding how to replace a Congresswoman knocked out of office with a personal scandal or whether they want a public defender to run the District Attorney’s Office.
SoCal Connected recently joined the firefighters at Station 9 for a 24-hour shift, responding with them on call after call, allowing the pictures, firefighters and Skid Row residents to tell their own story.
Hundreds of police records come to light during a massive and unprecedented joint media effort across the state to examine police officers’ disciplinary files once held in secrecy but recently made public.
According to numbers provided by the district to SoCal Connected, the ratio of students to college counselors is 690 to 1. It's worse in schools with student bodies comprised predominantly with children of color: 750:1.
Raids follow SoCal Connected investigation that found pesticides on cannabis at unlicensed stores
The City of Los Angeles sued the Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday, demanding an end to a so-called "southerly shift" of takeoffs from Hollywood Burbank Airport that have resulted in an increase in noise over Sherman Oaks and much of the Valley.
Researchers have discovered an alarming increase in plastics pollution in the deep ocean floor off Santa Barbara, suggesting human efforts to reduce using the everlasting product should include finding new ways to wash our clothes.
The 11-page report said Villanueva has refused to cooperate with a public transparency agreement established with his predecessor, Sheriff Jim McDonnell, restricting the Inspector General’s access to personnel records and other documents.
Officials at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Civilian Oversight Committee abruptly ended their meeting without discussing anything on the agenda when supporters of President Trump's policies clashed with members of Black Lives Matter and other groups.
District Attorney Jackie Lacey’s Public Integrity Unit concluded that a vague meeting agenda item description that included no information about the Clippers basketball team, the stadium or the negotiations “did violate the (Ralph M. Brown) Act.”