Harriet Ryan

Harriet Ryan - Los Angeles Times (TNS) Updated Serving a life sentence for a murder he did not commit, Jofama Coleman studiously avoided calendars.

The State Bar of California has filed disciplinary charges against Aaron Spolin, a West Los Angeles attorney who signed up hundreds of prisoners as clients by convincing their desperate families he could free them.

Southern California was bracing Monday for a heat wave expected to bring triple-digit temperatures to much of the region this week.

LOS ANGELES — Southern California was bracing Monday for a heat wave expected to bring triple-digit temperatures to much of the region this week.

Seven people are dead and dozens have been injured in Mississippi after a commercial bus overturned on Interstate 20. The Mississippi Highway Patrol said six passengers were declared dead at the scene early Saturday and another died at a hospital. Thirty-seven passengers were taken to hospitals with injuries. The bus was traveling west when it left the highway near Bovina in Warren County and flipped over. No other vehicle was involved. The department is continuing its investigation and hasn’t released the names of the deceased. No other information was immediately provided.

Southern California was bracing Monday for a heat wave expected to bring triple-digit temperatures to much of the region this week.

John Wilson has demanded that USC return his $100,000 donation.

Internal records show how USC admitted children of the wealthy and well-connected through an alternate path with an acceptance rate of up to 90%.

LOS ANGELES — Energy and telecom mogul Sarath Ratanavadi, one of the richest men in Thailand , wanted his son to attend the University of Southern California a decade ago.

The former president of this Orange County school helped affluent students enter USC as walk-on athletes — a route that the university now acknowledges as fraud.