The House Ethics Committee expects to end the case against Rep. Maxine Waters, accused of aiding a bank with ties to her husband.WASHINGTON — For three years, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) steadfastly maintained that during a call with the Treasury secretary in the midst of the nation's financial crisis she was looking out for the interests of all minority-owned banks — not just o...

About $1,500 of the money stolen in a Canyon Country bank robbery and tossed by suspects during a police chase through South L.A. has been recovered. Officials say they are looking to find more.

A Bell man was booked, then released on bail, in connection with the robbery of an East L.A. bank by men who threatened the branch manager with explosives.An acquaintance of the bank manager who told authorities she was kidnapped and strapped with explosives as part of bank robbery in East L.A. has been arrested in connection with the crime, several law enforcement sources familiar with the incide...

With the cops closing in, bank robbery suspects throw currency from a car, snarling the streets of South L.A.Even in the land of police chases, it was a wild ride.

The cards, under study now, would provide a form of identification for those without driver's licenses and could be used to open bank accounts, transfer funds and access cash.Los Angeles officials are considering a plan to turn the library card into a form of identification that the city's large illegal immigrant population could use to open bank accounts and access an array of city services. ...

Robbers strap an apparent explosive device to a Bank of America branch manager and force her to give them a large sum of cash. Police later safely remove the device, but the robbers remain at large. A bank manager said she was leaving her Huntington Park home for work Wednesday morning when two masked men snatched her in her garage.

Brian C. Mulligan says officers threatened to kill him, beat him badly and kept him against his will. He claims at least $50 million in damages. Police have a different account.By sunrise, the bank executive was laid up in the hospital, his face swollen, the result of a late-night confrontation with two LAPD officers in Highland Park.

Some cities, counties and nonprofits that rallied to keep cash-strapped California parks open want money back after officials found $54 million in a parks fund.When cash-pinched state officials announced last year that they couldn't afford to keep 70 California parks open, residents jumped in to help. Neighbors held bake sales, cities dug into their reserves, and nonprofits rallied big donors. ...

The city attorney accuses the bank of being a slumlord and demands that it clean up properties it foreclosed on.For Mary Sanchez, the vacant, foreclosed home across from hers on Abner Street in El Sereno was an assault on the senses and her piece of mind.

Accreditation report says the college has paltry financial reserves, a dearth of leadership and a slow-moving style of governance. The 77-year-old school now must make a case for continuing to exist.SAN FRANCISCO — The report this month from the accreditation commission was scathing.

Cadiz Inc. could realize $1 billion to $2 billion in revenue over the plan's 50-year life. Opponents say public resources are being used for private profit.CADIZ, Calif. – Three decades ago a group of businessmen pored over NASA satellite imagery as part of a worldwide hunt for large groundwater reserves they could tap to grow desert crops. They found the signs they were looking for here in ...

Dirma Rodriguez wonders how a house she'd been paying on for years, and which is specially modified for her severely disabled daughter, could be taken from her.Dirma Rodriguez had five minutes to gather her things and vacate the West Adams house she and her severely disabled daughter had lived in for more than 25 years.

The student-run station at Mount San Antonio College in Walnut has become a rock 'n roll Eden to about a dozen broadcasting students who live and breathe radio.Seconds before showtime, the DJ took his place before the bank of monitors, switches and dials. He took a deep breath, a light flickered on above the door. Waffles was on the air.

Richard Lee plans to transfer Oaksterdam University and a pot dispensary to others but vows to remain an advocate for legalization.Richard Lee, whose bid to legalize marijuana in California brought him international attention, plans to give up ownership of his Oakland-based marijuana businesses after a federal raid this week seized many of their assets, including plants, bank accounts, records and...

The Los Angeles mayor also orders the hiring of a recognized public safety analyst, formerly of the LAPD, to oversee the department's accounting of its performance. Seeking to bolster public confidence in the beleaguered Los Angeles Fire Department, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa late Thursday called on the City Council to dip into budget reserves to activate six more ambulances and ordered the appoin...

The collection, which includes 5,000 props, costumes and devices used by such famed names as Harry Houdini and Harry Blackstone Sr., was once housed in a Hollywood bank basement but is now in storage.If only these stage sorcerers could reach into a black top hat and pull out a home for their magical paraphernalia.

Other L.A. County supervisors back her request and urge Sheriff Baca to be more transparent about the program. His report is expected next week.A Los Angeles County supervisor called on the Sheriff's Department on Tuesday to be more transparent about how taxpayer dollars are being spent within its volunteer reserves program.

The council votes to require financial institutions seeking city business to submit regular reports on local lending and charitable giving. But members drop a plan to rate the banks because of the expense involved.Months after demonstrators with Occupy L.A. demanded an aggressive crackdown on Wall Street banks, the Los Angeles City Council approved a watered-down plan requiring regular reports on ...

Bank of America's desire to escape the legacy of its Countrywide problems also helped secure a combined $12 billion in principal write-downs for the state.California walked away with the biggest chunk of this week's landmark foreclosure settlement partly because of the state's size but also because of Bank of America's desire to escape the legacy of its Countrywide problems.

The suit also targets Pension Consulting Alliance Inc., which the Los Angeles City Employees' Retirement System used as its investment consultant. The suit contends the bank and consultant engaged in unlawful business practices.Los Angeles officials alleged in a lawsuit this week that they were misled by a longtime investment bank trying to protect its own financial interests, resulting in more th...

The capital gains taxes from initial public offerings can funnel hundreds of millions of dollars into state coffers. Can California bank on Facebook going public in 2012?The future of California's public schools, universities and health programs could be linked partly to the fictional town of FarmVille.

As authorities probe at least 39 arsons in the Los Angeles area that began Thursday morning, a 'person of interest' is seen on a video from a Hollywood garage.Inside a mobile command center parked in the heart of Hollywood, Los Angeles City fire captains huddle around a bank of radios, monitoring six frequencies used by local law enforcement agencies.

Some worry about a clash between environmentalists and fishing enthusiasts if violators are confronted by observers who hold no law enforcement authority.Wardens won't be the only people on patrol when new fishing restrictions take effect Jan. 1, setting up a network of state marine reserves on about 15% of the Southern California coast.

The FBI now thinks the robber, who in one holdup had an oxygen tank with a tube to his nose, may be a younger man wearing a mask and gloves. After the latest of his 16 heists, he sprinted away.For more than two years the bank robber dubbed the Geezer Bandit has flummoxed law enforcement, pulling off 16 heists and leaving little evidence behind.

More than 70 are arrested in downtown L.A., and several unions call on the city to let protesters stay at a bank plaza on Bunker Hill. At a march in Manhattan, 200 are taken into custody.Hundreds of people were arrested across the country Thursday in a series of sometimes confrontational street demonstrations protesting efforts to break up Occupy Wall Street-inspired camps.

Officers end four-hour standoff after Occupy movement demonstrators, mostly UC students, take over a bank lobby in San Francisco's financial district. Protesters in the Occupy Wall Street movement seized a Bank of America branch in the city's financial district Wednesday, a demonstration that forced jittery customers and employees to flee and ended in nearly 100 arrests.

While serving as general manager, Patrick Lynch received the money from Tony Estrada, who deposited it at a Miami bank. Lynch's attorney says the funds had nothing to do with stadium operations.Patrick Lynch, while serving as general manager of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a stadium contractor who deposited the money in a Miami bank, according t...

The Gudiel family stages protests against the bank and lending agency in the loss of their home. But the story is more complicated than it seems.Rose Gudiel wept in her kitchen, as she told me a story about death and a $408,000 loan.

First California Bank promises to cooperate with officials reviewing actions of the veteran political campaign treasurer, who had signature authority over more than 400 accounts. State banking regulators have launched an inquiry into how First California Bank handled numerous accounts controlled by Kinde Durkee, a longtime treasurer for prominent politicians who has been accused of fraud.

On the first Friday of each month, more than 570 residents 65 or older wait in line for free groceries at the Pasadena Senior Center, its director says. An additional 100 have food delivered. In 2008, approximately 350 sought assistance.The director of a senior citizens food bank in Pasadena said demand for groceries has almost doubled over the last three years.