U.S. Judge Stephen V. Wilson spent two hours Monday grilling a federal prosecutor over a plan to give L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputy Trevor Kirk a no-jail plea deal, despite the fact he was convicted of a felony in an excessive force case earlier this year.
To supplement the city’s bare-bones emergency management team, Mayor Karen Bass turned to an Illinois-based disaster recovery firm, Hagerty Consulting, inking a yearlong contract for up to $10 million.
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Wildlife officials estimate there are now 60,000 black bears in California, roughly triple the figure from 1998. With human-bear encounters on the rise, some rural areas want more leeway to hunt bears down.
An L.A. Times/WeedWeek investigation finds alarming levels of pesticides in cannabis products at dispensaries across the state
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