From Los Angeles Times

  • Megan Thee Stallion, Roc Nation sued by personal cameraman, who makes a provocative allegation

    Megan Thee Stallion is being sued by a personal cameraman who alleges the "Hot Girl Summer" singer, her management company and several other related entities engaged in hostile work environment harassment and various labor-law violations. The lawsuit alleges that MTS — whose legal name is Megan Pete — had sex with a woman riding in an SUV in Europe with two other passengers and her and the cameraman, Emilio Garcia. The lawsuit also alleges that the singer fat-shamed the cameraman, saying things...

  • Lawsuit accuses Newport Beach fertility clinic of poisoning embryos

    For two weeks in January, a Newport Beach fertility lab had a zero-percent rate of successful implantation, allegedly because embryos were exposed to hydrogen peroxide or another caustic chemical, according to a lawsuit filed this week on behalf of nine couples. More than a dozen embryos were already nonviable when the lab, Ovation Fertility, implanted them into the would-be mothers, said the lawsuit, which accuses the lab of negligence. The "catastrophic error" occurred between Jan. 18 and Jan....

  • She was saving money to move back to Nicaragua. Then she was killed on an L.A. subway

    Each night for Mirna Soza was a bit like the last. She worked every day for the last three years as a security guard at Original Tommy's hamburgers in North Hills, clocking in around 7 p.m. and working until 3 or 4 a.m. Then, usually, she would hang around the restaurant until the sun started to rise before taking public transit home, where she would sleep until she had to wake up and do it again. It was safer to ride when the sun came up, she thought. But sometimes she was too tired to wait and...

  • What to know about California's new state park, a scenic green space where two rivers meet

    On June 12, California will open its first new state park in nearly a decade, setting aside 1,600 acres near the confluence of the Tuolumne and San Joaquin rivers in the San Joaquin Valley. The park will give visitors a glimpse of what the valley's waterways were like before the arrival of agriculture, but it will be a while before the site offers many activities. Or has a name. The site is known as Dos Rios, but state officials have yet to officially name it. It sits eight miles west of...

  • Several crew members injured in crash on Georgia set of Eddie Murphy film

    Several crew members were recently injured in a crash on the Georgia set of an Amazon MGM Studios film starring Eddie Murphy, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday. The studio confirmed to the AP that the accident happened Saturday while shooting a sequence that "did not go as planned." Two of the injured crew members were hospitalized following the incident, a person close to the production told the news outlet. One was still in the hospital as of Tuesday afternoon. "We are still in the...

  • NBA disagrees with LeBron James and Lakers, supports calls made late in Game 2 loss

    The NBA endorsed the calls made by officials during the final two minutes of the Lakers' 101-99 playoff loss to the Nuggets on Tuesday night. LeBron James and the Lakers, who led by as many as 20 points in the third quarter, complained shortly after losing on a buzzer-beating shot by Denver's Jamal Murray and falling behind 2-0 in the Western Conference playoff series. In the two-minute report the league issues assessing officiating decisions made late in games, the sole error the NBA flagged...

  • Break-in suspect left bloody scene while 'targeting' Mayor Bass, prosecutors say

    The man who broke into Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass' home Sunday was specifically "targeting" her when he forced his way in and reached the second floor, Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón said Tuesday. Prosecutors provided disturbing new details about the incident after announcing the filing of burglary and vandalism charges — both felonies — against Ephraim Hunter, 29, of Los Angeles. Hunter pleaded not guilty to both counts. Appearing at a news conference, Gascón said Hunter broke...

  • Southland top 20 high school softball rankings

    The top 20 high school softball rankings for The Times by CalHiSports.com. (previous rank) 1. (1) Norco 21-3 2. (4) Orange Lutheran 18-3 3. (5) Garden Grove Pacifica 20-2 4. (7) Anaheim Canyon 21-4 5. (2) Murrieta Mesa 21-3 6. (9) Los Alamitos 19-5 7. (3) Riverside Poly 24-2-1 8. (10) Granada Hills 23-2 9. (8) El Modena 17-8 10. (12) California 24-3 11. (13) La Mirada 19-4-2 12. (15) Mission Viejo 18-5-1 13. (14) Long Beach Millikan 18-8 14. (16) West Torrance 20-4 15. (18) Esperanza 13-9 16....

  • Bullying over weight drove Jelly Roll offline, wife Bunnie XO says: 'It hurts him'

    "It hurts him." That's what Jelly Roll's wife, Bunnie XO, says in a promo clip for this week's episode of "Dumb Blonde." In text overlaid on the clip, she promised: "This week I go off on the podcast.. def going to ruffle some feathers & I didn't stutter." She's about to "go off" about bullying, apparently. "My husband got off the internet because he was so tired of being bullied about his f— weight," she said. "And, like, that makes me want to cry, because he is the sweetest angel baby." She...

  • Jay Toia's dalliance with transfer portal ends in a triumphant return to UCLA

    Turns out there’s no need to cross one big name off UCLA’s spring football roster. Jay Toia returned to practice Tuesday, five days after he entered the transfer portal to assess his options. “I'm just excited big man is back,” Bruins coach DeShaun Foster said of the 6-foot-3, 325-pound defensive lineman. “We knew with our culture here, our beliefs, the way we coach, our development — we just felt that that really, at the end of the day, overcomes anything that's coming inside trying to take...

  • Man accused of killing woman on L.A. subway is linked to earlier violence on Metro train

    A 45-year-old man suspected of fatally stabbing a woman as she got off a Metro train in North Hollywood had attacked a passenger once before, leading a judge to order him to keep his distance from the rail system for three years. Elliot Tramel Nowden was arrested Monday not long after a woman was found mortally wounded on the ground at the Universal Studios train platform, interim Los Angeles Police Chief Dominic Choi announced Tuesday during a Police Commission meeting. The victim, Mirna Soza,...

  • Luke Bryan didn't slip on a cellphone onstage: 'I was kind of hamming that up'

    It wasn't a cellphone that did Luke Bryan in, it was a slick spot on stage, the country star explained. The "Play it Again" and "That's My Kind of Night" singer cleared the record about his weekend wipeout onstage during his Coast City Country show at B.C. Place in Vancouver, Canada, which he initially chalked up to slipping on a fan's cellphone, according to the Vancouver Sun. Despite falling on his back, Bryan took the moment in stride and returned a phone that had been onstage to an audience...