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A special centennial badge Long Beach police officers will be wearing to honor the 100th year of the design. Photo courtesy the Long Beach Police Department.

Two men found dead after standoff with Long Beach Police

Two men were found dead inside a home after police exchanged fire with a man inside, prompting a standoff with police in Long Beach, police said.

Los Angeles, CA - October 17, 2026: Protestors march up 1st Street as the No Kings - Vote Early march makes its way through downtown Los Angeles, CA on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

‘No Kings’ protests mobilize across California as activists push for early voter turnout

Westchester, CA - March 15: Los Angeles City Controller Kenneth Mejia attends a canvassing event on Sunday, March 15, 2026 in Westchester, CA. (Eric Thayer / Los Angeles Times)

Nithya Raman has at least one friend in City Hall — City Controller Kenneth Mejia

LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 15, 2026: in Game four of the NLCS at Dodger Stadium on October 15, 2026 in Los Angeles, CA. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

The Dodgers’ dream of a three-peat was shattered. What went wrong and what are fans saying?

FILE - The OpenAI logo is seen displayed on a cell phone in front of an image on a computer screen generated by ChatGPT's Dall-E text-to-image model, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, file)

Here’s what we know about the man who allegedly bugged an OpenAI conference room in San Francisco

Long Beach, CA, - October 13, 2026: Waves continue to hit homes on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026 in Long Beach, CA. Storm waves have affected the Long Beach peninsula in recent weeks, causing damage to coastal homes. (Eric Thayer / Los Angeles Times)
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Lopez: It’s been a great romance, but it’s time to rethink our relationship with the California coast

The 10-year-old California Jack Russell Terrier named Luna had been lost for more than a month at Yellowstone National Park before rescuers, tourists and park employees helped reunite Luna with her California parents on Wednesday morning.

Luna, a 10-year-old Jack Russell, just survived a month loose in Yellowstone National Park

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, CA - OCTOBER 16, 2026: Burning embers swirl in balls of fire that have engulfed a multi-million dollar home above Calle Miramar during the Norte fire on October 16, 2026 in San Juan Capistrano, CA. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

SoCal braces for another day of heat and winds as fire destroys homes in Orange County

Arcadia surrogacy mansion mom fled U.S. after previous abuse charge, prosecutors allege

Hackers steal personal data of millions of California students in massive breach

Top LAFD union official accuses former president of battery

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DANA POINT, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 23, 2026: Sylvia Caliendo, 61, center, of Lake Forest, gets assistance from Eric Munoz, left, deck hand, and Lee Hamm, 39, right, of Poway, while reeling in a dorado aboard the Dana Pride, out of Dana Wharf Sportfishing & Whale Watching, on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, in Dana Point, California. Sportfishing is doing well this season due to the warm waters off the coast. A lot of species not normally seen this far north, or not normally seen in such numbers, are getting caught regularly, and sportfishing outfits are happy. (Gary Coronado / For The Times)
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El Niño shifts exotic sea creatures to Southern California’s coast. Here’s what anglers are seeing

In the last few months, sea creatures such as whale and hammerhead sharks, devil rays, wahoos and other fish species have been seen by beachgoers and amateur anglers from Orange County to Malibu.

LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 18, 2026 - - Los Angeles mayoral candidate and city council member Nithya Raman, center, enjoys a light moment with The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) Action members at a "Latinos Con Raman" rally at La Cita Bar in downtown Los Angeles on September 18, 2026. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)
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Latino voters have shifted away from Karen Bass in L.A. mayor’s race, according to new poll

Newberry Springs, CA, - August 23, 2026: The exterior of the Bagdad Cafe is seen on Route 66 on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026 in Newberry Springs, CA. The owner, Andrea Pruett, died in her 80s in January. The business, which is popular with tourists who are fans of the movie with the same name, has been struggling since the pandemic. (Eric Thayer / Los Angeles Times)
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A cult film made this lonely desert cafe famous. Now, it’s fighting to survive

LOS ANGELES, CA - September 06, 2026: Participants in the Barrio Athletics 5K Run pose for a group photo at Elysian Park on Sunday, Sept. 6, 2026 in Los Angeles, CA. (Caroline Brehman / For The Times)
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Arellano: A failed run club ‘takeover’ of Leimert Park shows what’s at stake for Black L.A.

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The online predator next door: Feds hunt down L.A. members of child sex abuse network

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, left, and California governor Gavin Newsom attend the California Economic Summit.

A little bipartisan bromance as Schwarzenegger, Newsom laud California’s climate-change wins

Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Gov. Gavin Newsom marked 20 years of California’s landmark climate law, celebrating a rare show of bipartisan unity amid deepening political polarization.

LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 04, 2026: The Los Angeles Police Department and federal agents are work a joint operation targeting “illegal narcotics activity” at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles on Thursday, June 4, 2026. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

California’s ‘No Vigilantes Act’ requiring ID from immigration agents blocked by 9th Circuit

UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 13, 2026: City Councilmember Nithya Raman speaks during a debate with Incumbent Mayor Karen Bass during the Los Angeles Mayoral Debate Tuesday, October 13, 2026. (Eric Thayer / Los Angeles Times)
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Lopez: Post-debate, lingering questions about who Raman is and how she would lead

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks to supporters during a campaign event at the Brookland-Lakeview Empowerment Center, Friday, Sept. 4, 2026, in West Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Mic Smith)

Newsom heads to New Hampshire to stump for Democrats, raise political profile

UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 13, 2026: Incumbent Mayor Karen Bass speaks during a debate
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Arellano: Karen Bass says L.A.’s political establishment doesn’t like Raman. Well, boo-hoo

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Los Angeles, CA., November 5, 1942: Peggy Satterlee, left, actor Errol Flynn, center, with his attorney Robert E. Ford, right, at a preliminary hearing in a crowded Los Angeles courtroom on Nov. 5, 1942. 16-year-old Peggy Satterlee, charged that Flynn raped her on two consecutive nights on his yacht. (George R. Watson / Los Angeles Times)
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Errol Flynn had a penchant for underage girls. His trial barely tarnished him

Comedian Lenny Bruce poses for a photograph
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Incendiary comic Lenny Bruce inspired generations. During his brief life, L.A vice cops hounded him

20030209 (LA/B5,SF/B5) –– DEVASTATION: The St. Francis Dam after it collapsed and sent a 10–story wall of water through San Francisquito Canyon. 20030209 (VN/B3) –– AFTER: The dam after it collapsed in 1928, sending a 10–foot wall of water roaring through San Francisquito Canyon. 00–10–14(Valley) –– (2 Photos) The St. Francis Dam, above left, was completed in 1926 and held water brought south in the L.A. Aqueduct. Above right, the dam shortly after it collapsed in 1928, killing more than 450 people. 98–03–08 (Ventura) –– Little was left after the St. Francis Damcollapsed, sendingbillions of gallons of water down San Francisquito Canyon. FILE PHOTO This is all that was left of the St. Francis dam in San Francisquito canyon after it collapsed in 1928.
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William Mulholland brought water to L.A. He failed to stop a disastrous flood

FILE - Escorted by sheriff's deputies, Robert Blake is surrounded by a crowd of photographers and reporters as he gets into his attorney's car after his release from jail to await his murder trial, in downtown Los Angeles, March 14, 2003. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
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He played an iconic cop on TV. Did Robert Blake get away with murder?

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Were the Zodiac killer and the Black Dahlia the same person? The devil is in the details

LA's most famous unsolved killing, The Black Dahlia killing
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An amateur codebreaker may have just solved the Black Dahlia and Zodiac killings

Iva Toguri D'Aquino, Tokyo Rose of the Japanese propaganda "Zero Hour" broadcasts which were beamed to American troops in the Pacific during the war, seems in a pensive mood as she looks through the bars of her cell in Yokohama, Japan, Oct. 28, 1945. Born in Los Angeles, 29 years ago to Japanese parents, she is awaiting trial for treason against the United States. (AP Photo)

This L.A. woman was jailed as a WWII traitor. How a pair of perjuries ensnared ‘Tokyo Rose’

Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson starts a Bible-reading marathon at Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, June 28, 1931. The contest will continue through July 1, with what is said to be the largest Bible in the world being used by contestants. (AP Photo)
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Toting a tambourine, she built L.A.’s first megachurch. Then she suddenly disappeared

MONTEREY PARK-CA-DECEMBER 9, 2013: Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca faces the media during a news conference in response to an announcement of the F.B.I. arrests of 17 sworn members of the Sheriff's Department in connetion with a federal probe into activities at county jails at the Department Headquarters in Monterey Park on Monday, December 9, 2013. (Christina House / For The Times)

A popular L.A. sheriff touted reforms in a troubled system. Then a young FBI agent showed up

Marvin Gaye, American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and musician photographed in Los Angeles.

Inside the tragedy that silenced a soul legend: Marvin Gaye’s last fight with his father

FILE - In this June 5, 1968, file photo, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy addresses campaign workers moments before being shot in Los Angeles. At his side are his wife, Ethel, and his California campaign manager, Jesse Unruh, speaker of the California Assembly. Prosecutors for the first time are not opposing the release of Sirhan Sirhan. The 77-year-old prisoner on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, faces his 16th parole hearing for fatally shooting Kennedy in 1968. (AP Photo/Dick Strobel, File)
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The assassination of RFK: An icon of hope, a hotel pantry and an ‘angry nobody’

Los Angeles, California, July 13, 1981 - HILLSIDE STRANGLER - Angelo Buono, "Hillside Strangler" suspect, smiles as he listens to motion by the deputy district attorney to dismiss murder charges against him. With him is one of his attorneys, Kathy Mader. Photo Credit: R.L. Oliver / Los Angeles Times

Homicidal cousins and the Hillside Stranglers case: A trial that nearly did not happen

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