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A bullet fired from the street entered a home and killed a 59-year-old Long Beach woman.
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Gas blow out sparks concerns over oil wells throughout Southern California
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Police are searching for the suspect in a shooting outside a Glendale laser tag facility.
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Members of the now-defunct white supremacist group Rise Above Movement were sentenced in Charlottesville, Va.
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Co-chairs of a task force on homelessness want a right-to-shelter requirement. But building large shelters and forcing people indoors may prove difficult.
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Heavy winter rainfall damaged roads leading into Idyllwild, leaving the artsy mountain community largely cut off from surrounding areas.
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The former Crystal Cathedral, a Southern California landmark that has long stood at the intersection of kitsch and postmodernism just three miles from Disneyland, has been officially rededicated by the most unlikely of saviors: the Catholic Church.
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L.A. County got a record 21,631 homeless people into housing in the past year. But a breakdown of that number obtained by The Times shows a much more complicated picture of who gets housed and how.
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College admissions scandal renews scrutiny of recruited athletes to elite colleges.
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A magnitude 3.0 earthquake hits six miles from Ridgecrest
Times Investigations
The Department of Homeland Security has dismantled or ended multiple programs intended to counter WMD attacks, a Times investigation found.
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The FBI is investigating a secret society of tattooed deputies in East Los Angeles as well as similar gang-like groups elsewhere within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, multiple people familiar with the inquiry said.
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A Southern California father has admitted to paying $250,000 to get his son into USC as a bogus volleyball player and will plead guilty to fraud conspiracy, his attorney and prosecutors say, as the list of wealthy and powerful parents charged in a federal investigation into college admissions fraud grew for the first time Friday since William “Rick” Singer’s decadelong scheme was uncovered in March.
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George Tyndall, the gynecologist accused of sexual misconduct toward hundreds of USC students, was arrested Wednesday and charged with committing more than two dozen felonies at the campus clinic where he practiced for decades.
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Two years ago, when the mayor’s office in St.
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HUD says L.A. failed to ensure properties built with public money were accessible to people who use wheelchairs or have other disabilities.
Oregon has advanced the most ambitious response to housing affordability challenges in the country while California Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers have struggled to pass strong renter protections and legislation that would significantly increase the state’s supply of homes.
A law allows sanitation crews in Los Angeles to seize and destroy property kept by homeless people on city sidewalks. A new lawsuit challenges that practice.
Foreign purchases of U.S. residential real estate fell 36% to the lowest annual rate since 2013, as slowing overseas economies, the strong dollar and the White House’s anti-immigrant rhetoric put a chill on demand.
A coalition of skid row advocates accused Los Angeles of wanting to give the bulk of skid row over to luxury housing developers, ignoring the thousands of people living in tents and shelters in the blighted downtown district.
When Eric Garcetti ran for mayor six years ago, he rode a wave of anger over the political power wielded by the union that represents workers at the Department of Water and Power — and later vowed to reform the agency that Los Angeles residents love to hate.
Over the last several months, cities and counties across California have been releasing homeless counts.
Property owners and residents of shelters on skid row are going to court to block a contentious legal settlement that restricts Los Angeles’ ability to clear homeless encampments in the heavily blighted downtown district.
As of this week, landlords of Los Angeles rent-controlled buildings can raise rent by 4%, the first time in a decade the annual cap isn’t 3%.
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Climate & Environment
After a series of tense exchanges over California wildfires, the Trump administration and the state have agreed to continue their firefighting partnership under existing reimbursement rates.
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As Sen. Dianne Feinstein chastises Chevron Corp. for an 800,000-gallon oil spill near Bakersfield, California officials confirm more leaking.
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A biological finding by the National Marine Fisheries Service threatens to derail the Trump administration plan to increase Delta water deliveries to Central Valley farmers.
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After a ‘near-miss’ last year, Southern California Edison said it is confident transfer operations will go smoothly.
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Think of the most radioactive landscapes on the planet and the names Chernobyl and Fukushima may come to mind.
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Talking about global warming with friends and family helps them learn key facts about the scientific agreement on climate change and influences their beliefs.
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San Diego Union-Tribune finds allegations likely unwarranted
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The University of California on Thursday unveiled a plan to raise tuition for incoming class of freshmen and transfer students, but then freeze it for six years.
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Federal law enforcement agents have seized the records of an L.A. charter school that recently closed amid allegations of fiscal mismanagement.
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A magnitude 3.6 earthquake was reported Friday at 11:40 a.m. , 12 miles from Palm Springs, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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A magnitude 3.3 earthquake was reported Thursday evening at 5:57 p.m. Pacific time 8 miles from Borrego Springs, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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A magnitude 4.6 earthquake was reported Wednesday evening at 8:59 p.m. near Ridgecrest, Calif.
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A magnitude 4.3 earthquake was reported Tuesday afternoon at 1:11 p.m. near Livermore, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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A young Oxnard couple has been arrested on suspicion of strangling a newborn baby boy in a hospital just hours after the woman gave birth.
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The nearly hourlong chase started on the 405 Freeway in Orange County, eventually ending as a foot pursuit into the ocean.
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A man has been arrested on suspicion of arson after a fast-moving fire swept through several acres of brush in San Pedro near the Harbor Freeway.
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An aide to L.A. Councilman Jose Huizar is on leave as police investigate possible illegal recordings made inside a district office.
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Aaron Carreto was playing outside his Compton apartment complex July 6 when, he says, two adult neighbors approached him with an illegal homemade firework.
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California Retrospective: Architect Cesar Pelli created many landmark buildings, but few were as controversial as the Pacific Design Center.
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The blast rocked the Riverside County neighborhood and killed Wade Kilpatrick, 31, a construction technician for Southern California Gas Co.
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College admissions scandal renews scrutiny of recruited athletes to elite colleges.
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Heavy winter rainfall damaged roads leading into Idyllwild, leaving the artsy mountain community largely cut off from surrounding areas.
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The former Crystal Cathedral, a Southern California landmark that has long stood at the intersection of kitsch and postmodernism just three miles from Disneyland, has been officially rededicated by the most unlikely of saviors: the Catholic Church.
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Co-chairs of a task force on homelessness want a right-to-shelter requirement. But building large shelters and forcing people indoors may prove difficult.
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Mark your calendars. The 60 Freeway will be closed from Ontario to Riverside for 15 weekends.
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The California Supreme Court refused earlier this week to hear an appeal by the administration disputing lower court rulings that found the state mistakenly used a portion of the money — paid by large banks and lenders as part of a nationwide legal agreement in 2012 — to pay off housing bonds.
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Some of the governor’s supporters are baffled by his decision to block two Bay Area cities from raising local taxes above state limits, exemptions he said were unneeded.
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Ophthalmologist John Tanton became the unlikely architect of the modern-day anti-immigration movement in the United States through founding and funding propositions, nonprofits, activists and publications on a local and national level over the past 40 years.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom did the right thing with a new law to help utilities pay for costs associated with wildfires sparked by their equipment.
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Like thousands of Central American parents seeking asylum in the United States, Patricia panicked when, after she and her son crossed the Rio Grande into Texas last year, U.S. border agents took the boy away.
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