L.A. prosecutors have filed charges against Marc Ching, alleging that the Hollywood-backed animal activist practiced veterinary medicine without a license and engaged in deceptive advertising at his for-profit pet food store. latimes.com/california/sto…
The criminal case comes after a Times investigation uncovered years of complaints by veterinarians that Ching persuaded pet owners to abandon prescribed treatment regimens and instead give their ailing dogs and cats products he sells at his business. latimes.com/california/sto…
The Times also exposed troubling financial practices by Ching’s animal rescue charity, the Animal Hope and Wellness Foundation, and raised questions about his rescue efforts overseas. latimes.com/california/sto…
The Times found evidence contradicting claims about the authenticity of some of the gruesome videos he shot of animals being tortured and killed in horrifying ways, including by blowtorch, at slaughterhouses in Asia. latimes.com/california/sto…
Of the 20 most populous cities in the U.S., San Francisco has the lowest death rate per capita from COVID-19. If the entire country had followed the city’s approach, says a @UCSF doctor, there would be just 50,000 dead from the pandemic instead of 220,000+ latimes.com/california/sto…
Experts credit San Francisco’s success to a long partnership between public health officers and universities, most notably during the AIDS crisis. San Francisco is not monolithic, but its residents largely followed health guidelines.
The tech industry played a role too. Companies ordered their employees to work from home two weeks before San Francisco and other Bay Area counties shut down, Signaling to the rest of the region that they were taking the coronavirus seriously.
Shipping logs show that every month in the years after World War II, thousands of barrels of toxic waste were dumped near Santa Catalina Island.
As many as half a million of these barrels could still be underwater right now.
Tales of this buried secret haunted scientists for years: a largely unknown chapter in the most infamous case of environmental destruction off the L.A. coast.
Deep-sea robots have allowed researchers today to take photos and samples of the seafloor. latimes.com/projects/la-co…
Steve Qunell he finds himself at the center of a raging debate over how to fight the coronavirus, which is surging in Montana like never before. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
Montana's governor, a Democrat who is in the final stretch of a senate race and has been reluctant to impose restrictions that could hurt his campaign, called on the hardest-hit counties to consider shutting bars and enforcing a statewide mask mandate. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
Places like Whitefish once could afford to view the pandemic as a big-city problem. Through mid-September, sparsely populated MT had a death toll of 140.
But that figure has doubled over the last five weeks as a new wave of infections sweeps the country. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
Monica Ramirez drove herself to the ER on a July afternoon. She was 30 weeks pregnant and she could not breathe.
She woke from a coma nearly 3 weeks later. In a different city. In a different hospital. Hooked up to a ventilator. And with her baby nearby. latimes.com/california/sto…
Emiliana was born July 13 — 10 weeks early, weighing 3 pounds, 6 ounces. She needed a ventilator for the first several days of her life. More than a month would pass before she felt her mother’s touch. She spent her first eight weeks in the neonatal ICU. latimes.com/california/sto…
Little is known about the impact of COVID-19 on women and the babies they carry. It is still not clear how a pregnant woman passes the virus on in the rare cases in which a baby has become infected. latimes.com/california/sto…
The values that molded Mike Pence, the former congressman and Indiana governor, first loom into view on the drive into Columbus.
The city has seen its politics bending, slowly but steadily, along a more liberal arc. latimes.com/politics/story…
Columbus’ population has grown by more than 80%, with foreign workers streaming into one of the most manufacturing-intensive counties in America. And the city government has rejected some of the hard-right social conservatism that Pence made his signature. latimes.com/politics/story…
Last year, Columbus elected its first Democratic-majority City Council in 36 years.
And in the Spring, Republican Mayor Jim Lienhoop marched alongside Black Lives Matter demonstrators in downtown Columbus latimes.com/politics/story…
Versions of Chang'e — a goddess who lives on the🌙 — exist across Asian cultures.
In some, her lover set aside immortality pills to be together forever but Chang'e ingests both to stop an enemy. In others, she takes them & flees to the moon with a🐰in tow latimes.com/entertainment-…