Primaries

Final L.A. vote count shows Garcetti's meager mandate

2013-06-07 21:39:00

Eric Garcetti,�Los Angeles' incoming mayor, won the office with fewer votes than any newly elected mayor since the 1930s, when the city population was less than half its current size, according to a Times analysis of final results released late Friday....

McManus: 'Tea party' tempest brewing

2013-06-02 00:00:00

The "tea party" is back and is brewing trouble for the Republican establishment. After the GOP debacle in the 2012 election, when Republicans not only failed to win the presidency but blew a chance to take over the Senate, party leaders paused to...

Compton's mayoral choice: old guard or new blood?

2013-06-01 16:45:00

Poised and polished in an electric-blue blazer, 31-year-old urban planner Aja Brown prepared to make her case to an audience full of voters — many of them skeptics — that if elected mayor she could be the new face of Compton. With her...

Christie names New Jersey attorney general to be interim senator

2013-06-06 11:09:00

WASHINGTON -- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday said he would appoint state Atty. Gen. Jeffrey Chiesa, a fellow Republican, as the state’s interim U.S. senator, replacing Democrat Frank Lautenberg, who died Monday. Christie said Chiesa...

New Jersey Sen. Lautenberg dead at age 89

2013-06-03 07:17:00

U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, a multimillionaire New Jersey businessman and the last World War II veteran remaining in the Senate, has died at age 89. His office said Lautenberg died shortly after 4 a.m. EDT on Monday at a New York hospital after...

Review: 'Brooklyn DA,' the 'reality' and the real

2013-05-28 14:25:00

"Brooklyn DA," which premieres Tuesday on CBS for a six-week run, has been the subject of some controversy in the city (and borough) where it's set. Abe George, who is running to unseat current Kings County Dist. Atty. Charles Hynes, went to court to...

Former Assembly Speaker Hertzberg to run for state Senate

2013-05-29 18:24:00

Former state Assembly Speaker Bob Hertzberg can’t get enough of Sacramento. Eleven years after he left the Assembly, Hertzberg said Wednesday that he has decided to run for a state Senate seat being vacated in 2014� by Sen. Alex Padilla (D-...

The assassination of Bobby Kennedy, through the eyes of a college girl

2013-06-05 10:15:00

The spring and summer of 1968 were an agony for the United States, especially for young Americans and black Americans. In April, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. In June, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, here in Los Angeles, in the...

Little attention paid to race in huge community college district

2013-05-18 22:38:00

An incumbent who styles herself as an outsider and a reform-minded community activist and political aide will face each other in a runoff election Tuesday for the final seat on the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees. Unlike the...

Billboard companies playing big role in L.A. city election

2013-05-15 21:45:00

Advertising company Lamar sued the city of Los Angeles two months ago, demanding the right to install new digital billboards in such neighborhoods as Sherman Oaks, Silver Lake, Glassell Park and the Fairfax district. Lamar's involvement in city politics...

Forecast for L.A.'s mayor race: paltry turnout

2013-05-16 07:00:00

More than 2 million people can vote for mayor of Los Angeles. But if history is a reliable guide, as many as 1.6 million of them will skip Tuesday's election. That low turnout could mean that the winner will garner fewer votes than any newly elected...

Pro-Garcetti 'super PAC' attacks Greuel for once being Republican

2013-05-15 14:39:00

A new Spanish-language television ad attacking Los Angeles mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel for being registered as a Republican during the Pete Wilson years is drawing push-back from her campaign. The 30-second commercial, which was produced by a...

June 1, 1968, San Francisco The rival Kennedy debates his Democratic primary rival, Sen. Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, on the ABC News program "Issues and Answers.

2013-06-06 10:18:00

Jolinda Shands of Chambersburg, Pa., tries to keep cool in the 80-degree heat while holding a sign of support for Franklin County judge candidate Jeremiah Zook. Shands said she earlier was supporting Zook at a polling place in Rouzerville, Pa.

2013-05-21 00:00:00

Shading shows voter turnout by city council district in March's primary election.

2013-05-16 12:27:14