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Joe Biden and President Trump might be fighting over riots and law and order, but Black activists in California are undeterred in planning more protests against police brutality.
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A USC professor was asked to step away from teaching his class after students complained that an example he gave in Mandarin sounded like a racial slur.
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The small neighborhood of Westmont is in the spotlight after two police shootings there this year. But residents want officials bring something to the community they think is missing: a message of hope.
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The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office said a settlement with a motel in an area of Pomona beset with prostitution represents the first time county prosecutors have used consumer protection laws to target sex trafficking.
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Reports of man flying jet pack near LAX prompt FBI call for public’s help
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The California Public Employees’ Retirement System may force its next chief investment officer to sell securities that could pose conflicts of interest.
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Los Angeles County officials also reported an additional 47 deaths related to COVID-19 and 1,439 new cases.
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A Compton man who has spent nearly 20 years in prison for a shooting will be released from prison after attorneys and prosecutors engineered his release amid questions about the evidence.
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With the holiday coinciding with a heat wave, Southern California’s coastal communities are bracing for an influx of visitors.
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California is exempting two dozen more professions from a landmark labor law designed to treat more people like employees instead of contractors.
State Laws, Politics & Policy
Jeff LeTourneau resigns as vice chair of the Democratic Party of Orange County after he shared a Facebook post praising Ho Chi Minh
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Failing to pass important housing and police reform bills, while forcing a legislator on maternity leave to return to Sacramento, is not a good look.
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California and the Trump administration issued protections this week that keep many tenants from losing their homes
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What happened in the California state Senate on the final night of the two-year legislative session Monday was a prime example of machines dispatching decorum and crippling civility.
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California lawmakers say there is growing evidence of possible widespread fraud in the state’s unemployment benefits system, which is overseen by the Employment Development Department. The news comes as Californians report stalled jobless benefits from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A USC professor was asked to step away from teaching his class after students complained that an example he gave in Mandarin sounded like a racial slur.
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Gov. Newsom declares a state of emergency as California utilities warn that sweltering conditions and increased demand could result in power outages.
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Dan and Betty Broderick’s divorce played out over five vicious years, was the talk of La Jolla. Betty finally put an end to it all -- with a .38-caliber revolver.
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Reports of man flying jet pack near LAX prompt FBI call for public’s help
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The shutdown of the Foster Farms plant this week due to coronavirus deaths exposes lapses in one of the most dangerous workplace sectors.
In the U.S., Latinos have been disproportionate casualties of the virus. They are about 39% of the population in California, but Latinos make up 60% of positive cases and 48% of deaths.
Health officials are cautioning against crowded holiday celebrations in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
The fallout from the recent summer surge in new coronavirus cases is here: More deaths.
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Labor Day is here, the unofficial end of summer and the time of year we start looking toward holiday festivities. But not this year: Coronavirus concerns are canceling popular Halloween and holiday light shows around Southern California.
All drive-through testing sites run by the city will be closed over the 3-day weekend, but a few pop-up testing events will be held Friday and Saturday.
Health officials warn the reopenings come with warnings as the virus remains widespread in the community.
The news, nine days after the start of SDSU’s fall semester, was a significant setback for a university that brought 7,997 of 35,485 students back to campus.
The move is the second time the city has disconnected utility service at a residence accused of hosting crowded gatherings amid stay-at-home orders.
The iconic Monterey Bay Aquarium has been closed since March because of the pandemic, forcing major cutbacks. Still, the animals must be cared for.
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed the California DMV to expand online services such as title transfers, registrations and driver’s license renewals, reducing the need for people to wait in person at a field office.
It’s hard to predict what may happen when California’s primary schools reopen. But when it comes to the state’s youngest students, data are more robust and reassuring.
For 10 years, downtown L.A. was booming with a youthful, renegade vibe. The coronavirus puts those hard-won gains at risk.
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Kindergartners benefit from socializing with their classmates. The effects of videoconference overload and at-home learning will be felt for years.
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County health officials said schools may offer services for small groups of students who have individualized education plans, are English language learners, or need assessments or specialized in-school services. The county will not be reopening the waiver program for students in grades TK-6.
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The Superior Court judge’s ruling came in a case challenging the use of test scores for students with disabilities but will affect all students.
Housing & Homelessness
L.A. housing department employee’s moonlighting job with a motel led to a fine and concerns that he should have flagged dangerous practices there.
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The California Assembly passed a measure to allow duplexes on single family lots, but the legislative session ended before the Senate could vote.
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Protections against eviction are extended by five months for California renters facing financial hardship because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The plan, which faces the high hurdle of having to get a two-thirds vote in each house of the Legislature by Monday night, was seen as a compromise with landlord groups who oppose a pending bill that would have kept tenants from being evicted if they did not pay any rent as late as April.
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California bill would end single-family zoning by allowing duplexes on single family parcels.
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s regulator is delaying a new fee on most mortgage refinances that could raise costs for borrowers. It now starts Dec. 1.
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A magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported Friday at 4:26 a.m. Pacific time 10 miles from Calexico, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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A magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported at 1:48 a.m. Thursday 13 miles from Ukiah, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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A magnitude 2.5 earthquake was reported Friday at 11:19 p.m. Pacific time in Huntington Beach, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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A magnitude 4.8 earthquake was reported 57 miles from Ridgecrest.
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Kimberly Holman-Maiden has been posting videos to Facebook almost every day to urge people to come into this boutique, which has struggled because of the pandemic.
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Piles of unopened mail and packages were discovered at two locations near each other Thursday morning in Glendale. It is unclear whether the incidents are related.
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The arrests included people convicted of battery, rape and kidnapping, said ICE, adding that, among those arrested locally, over 100 are now deported.
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Pandemic or not, Griffith Park takes you to L.A.'s urban edge and plunges you into what remains of our wilder side. Let this mini-guide send you on your way.
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Jessica Garrison discusses her new book “The Devil’s Harvest.”
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Family members recall a family-oriented man who was hit hard by the death of his mother as a young adult and had been working on finding his way in life.
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Census officials said Sept. 30 is the deadline but door-knocking will finish earlier in some areas.
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The L.A. County sheriff’s deputies involved in Dijon Kizzee’s fatal shooting are identified as a trainee and a supervising officer.
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Silento, the rapper known for the 2015 hit “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae),” has been charged with trying to hit two people with a hatchet in their home.
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Marion Moses, a leader on pesticides who advocated for the health and safety of farmworkers, was 84.
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A boom in mountain lion births has occurred this summer in Southern California.
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A House subcommittee asks the Department of Justice to investigate alleged abuses by “criminal gangs” in the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department.
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In new court documents, Britney Spears supports the #FreeBritney movement and is ‘vehemently opposed’ to her father sealing her conservatorship case.
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Federal authorities arrested George Posey IV and Dean Mirabal and two others on allegations of theft of government property.
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Temperatures are expected to climb 15 to 20 degrees above normal — and well into triple digits — in some areas of Southern California this weekend.
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Mayor Eric Garcetti said a missing L.A. firefighter may have been violently kidnapped in Baja California, but a prosecutor there could not confirm it.
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Attorneys general from several states seek court order to force Trump administration to restore USPS operations
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Well-intentioned climate policies don’t necessarily create good jobs. UC Berkeley researchers have some ideas for California.
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California could become the first state to develop its own line of generic drugs if Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bill approved by the legislature Monday.
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A bill would provide millions of employees who work for smaller businesses with 12 weeks of job protections while taking family leave.
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At the end of a legislative session marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, legislators passed a series of bills to provide protections for those affected by the coronavirus.
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California lawmakers on Sunday sent the governor a bill that would require greater diversity on corporate boards in the state, saying the shortage of people of color is a hurdle to racial justice.
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Newsom takes a more cautious and stringent four-tier approach than his first reopening effort. ‘We’re going to be more stubborn this time,’ he says.
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Millions of Californians who are out of work during the COVID-19 pandemic will soon receive a $300 weekly supplemental unemployment benefit starting retroactive to Aug. 1, state officials said Monday.
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California lawmakers introduced a proposal to extend a fee on utility customers to pay for wildfire response and mitigation projects.
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Some just got out of prison; others came off the streets. They are practically unemployable. But thanks to COVID-19, an L.A. nonprofit is able to put them to work at hotels taken over to house the homeless during the pandemic.
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The driver, a 22-year veteran of the agency, most recently drove on Line 611, through Cudahy and Huntington Park.
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The city delayed the return of street sweeping tickets by two months or more to encourage residents to stay home.
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The pandemic has forced thousands of workplaces to quickly adjust to remote work. Will your employer keep some of those changes in place permanently?
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A bridge that was supposed to take a year is incomplete after four, partly because of corrosion and other problems involving California’s high-speed-rail contractors.
