Two days after Heather Gonzalez’s sixth birthday, her mother walked out the door for the final time. As far as anyone knows, 27-year-old Teresa Wismer McKinley was headed to Peña Adobe, a ...

(Stock image) Nicole Perales, 50, faces charges including oral copulation with a boy who was 15 at the time, the District Attorney’s Office said in a statement Friday. Perales, who has worked for the ...

Teresa Watanabe covers education for the Los Angeles Times. Since joining the Times in 1989, she has covered immigration, ethnic communities, religion, Pacific Rim business and served as Tokyo ...