Bankruptcy

Ex-Compton fire official charged with arson, theft

2013-05-17 17:56:00

Marcel Melanson was a hero in Compton. The fire battalion chief led teams that raced to help victims of car crashes and street violence. Three years ago, he got national exposure as a star of a BET reality TV program that followed Compton firefighters...

Unions protest over potential sale of L.A. Times to Koch brothers

2013-05-15 00:00:00

About 300 labor union members and other activists staged a demonstration to protest the potential sale of the Los Angeles Times to the politically conservative Koch brothers. Demonstrators marched outside the downtown L.A. headquarters of Oaktree...

Unions protest over potential L.A. Times sale to Koch brothers

2013-05-14 16:35:00

About 300 labor-union members and other activists staged a demonstration Tuesday to protest the potential sale of the Los Angeles Times to the billionaire politically conservative Koch brothers. Demonstrators marched outside the downtown L.A....

TV, movie shoots get inside track at Irwindale Speedway

2013-05-15 04:00:00

A loud screeching sound echoed across the oval racetrack as a driver burned rubber, revving the engine of a silver Mercedes-Benz and spinning the vehicle a full 360 degrees while kicking up a cloud of dust and smoke. This wasn't a stock car race, but...

Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel have spirited debate at Cal State L.A.

2013-05-10 22:36:00

Wendy Greuel called on Eric Garcetti on Friday night to stop all negative advertising in the last 11 days of the Los Angeles mayor's race, a challenge that her rival dismissed as "disingenuous" for a candidate whose campaign is effectively "bankrupt."...

Greuel wants Garcetti to stop 'negative' ads in mayor race

2013-05-10 20:30:00

Wendy Greuel called on Eric Garcetti on Friday night to stop all negative advertising in the last 11 days of the Los Angeles mayor's race, a challenge that her rival instantly dismissed as "disingenuous" for a candidate whose campaign is effectively...

Letters: Healthcare and acts of God

2013-05-12 00:00:00

Re "Medical rates range off the chart," May 9 Our political leaders regularly lament the notion that ever-rising healthcare costs will eventually bankrupt our country. The question is why they treat this problem as if it were an act of God, totally...

Is $1,721.75 the bill you'd expect for treating a cut?

2013-05-10 00:00:00

It was your basic, run-of-the-mill accident. Kim Haselhoff's 9-year-old son got nipped in the finger by one of the family dogs. It didn't seem too serious, but there was a bit of blood. Unfortunately, the pediatrician's office had just closed, and the...

Developers buy Rhythm & Hues' ex-headquarters in El Segundo

2013-05-09 14:41:00

The former El Segundo headquarters of the visual effects studio Rhythm & Hues has been sold for $25 million to real estate developers who plan to upgrade it and turn it into an office campus for creative firms. Rhythm & Hues was acquired in March in a...

Rhythm & Hues effects house in search of a new home

2013-05-09 15:02:00

Rhythm & Hues, the Oscar-winning visual effects house that recently emerged from bankruptcy protection, is now looking for a new home. As Times writer Roger Vincent reports, the company's 200,000-square-foot El Segundo headquarters has been sold for $25...

Koch brothers want to make your newspaper their megaphone

2013-04-30 05:00:00

The people of Los Angeles would be up in arms if some out-of-town billionaires tried to buy the Dodgers and institute a rule that only right-handers could play on the team. Petitions would be signed, protests would be organized and politicians would...

SEC accuses city of Victorville, others of fraud in bond sale

2013-04-30 00:00:00

Ever since the Department of Defense shut down George Air Force Base in 1992, the high desert town of Victorville has struggled to reinvent itself. The city encouraged massive residential and retail development. It invested in two new power plants....

Michael: [screaming into the office] "I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!"

2013-05-12 15:41:00

Chinese-manufactured electric Coda vehicles are unveiled in November 2011. The Los Angeles-based company, backed by billionaire Philip Falcone, has filed for bankruptcy.

2013-05-01 08:25:35

Phoenix, "Bankrupt!"

2013-04-23 12:57:12