‘Love Island’: Cierra Ortega out amid racist posts backlash
This season of “Love Island USA” has lost yet another contestant after their past use of a racial slur resurfaced online: Cierra Ortega left the…
New audit flags more than $200,000 in spending by former LAFD union president
The parent organization of the Los Angeles Fire Department’s labor union has doubled down on allegations that the union’s top official failed to properly document…
Yulissa Escobar shows the fastest way off of ‘Love Island’
Want to succeed in reality show love? It might be best to keep your public life free of racial slurs.“Love Island USA” contestant Yulissa Escobar,…
Top LAFD union officers suspended after audit flags $800,000 in credit card spending
The president and two other top officers of the Los Angeles Fire Department’s labor union were suspended from their posts Monday after an investigation by…
A Times investigation: LAFD union head made $540,000 in a year, with huge overtime payouts
Long before the devastating fire in Pacific Palisades, leaders of the Los Angeles Fire Department’s labor union complained that the agency did not have enough…
Freddy Escobar leads the LAFD union in a turbulent time
With piercing brown eyes, a biker mustache, a gravelly voice and the build of an NFL defensive end, Freddy Escobar has long cut an imposing…
Pablo Escobar mugs and T-shirts set to be made illegal – for tragic reason
The infamous drug lord - immortalised in Netflix hit Narcos - is a source of tourism in Colombia, but now the country's Congress wants to…