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LOS ANGELES, CA – May 10, 2018: Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell in his downtown LA office at the Hall of Justice building on May 10, 2018. Sheriff McDonnell has been Sheriff of L.A. County for nearly four years as he talks about progress he has made in reforming the troubled agency. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

L.A. mayor selects longtime lawman Jim McDonnell as city’s next police chief

The decision to select McDonnell, who was an LAPD officer before serving as L.A. County sheriff, comes after a months-long search by Mayor Karen Bass.
FILE- A line of Holstein dairy cows feed through a fence at a dairy farm outside Jerome, Idaho, on March 11, 2009. A California man is going to prison for running a cow pat-to-green energy scheme that authorities say was a load of manure. Ray Brewer of Porterville was sentenced Tuesday, June 27, 2023, to six years and nine months in federal prison for a scam that bilked investors out of nearly $9 million. (AP Photo/Charlie Litchfield, File)

Bird flu deaths mount among California dairy cows: ‘More serious than we had hoped’

FILE - A ballot is dropped off on Election Day at the Registrar of Voters office, Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Norwalk, Calif. Slavery, same-sex marriage and shoplifting are among the 10 statewide ballot measures California voters will consider in November. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez,File)

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Irvine, CA - September 05: A construction worker works on the roof of new homes amidst a heat wave as the Great Park Balloon Ride rises in the horizon in Irvine Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Prop. 5 could unleash a flood of new affordable housing, road repairs, fire stations — and tax hikes

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FILE - A hiring sign is displayed at a grocery store in Deerfield, Ill., Thursday, July 25, 2024. On Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, the Labor Department reports on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits last week. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

U.S. job growth outperforms expectations as hiring resurges and unemployment drops

SOMES BAR, CA - AUGUST 15, 2024: Wearing wet suits, biologists maneuver a net to capture juvenile Coho salmon, Chinook salmon and steelhead trout in Wooley Creek, a tributary to the Salmon River which is one of the largest tributaries to the Klamath River on August 15, 2024 in Somes Bar, California. The Coho and Chinook are tagged with a monitoring device and also fin clipped for a genetic study.(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

Klamath River dam removal brings hope for threatened salmon

Sewage water filled with trash flow down the Tijuana River on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, in Imperial Beach, California. (Ana Ramirez/The San Diego Union-Tribune/TNS)

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