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A K-9 with the Long Beach Police Department died after being left in his handler’s department-issued vehicle, authorities said Friday.
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Initial reports indicated the crash was a derailment, but the Sacramento Regional Transit District now says the commuter train struck a maintenance train, which was not moving when the crash occurred. -
After 37 years in prison due to a shady jailhouse informant, this Long Beach man walks free
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Increased humidity and light winds helped firefighters slow the growth of a brush fire that exploded a day earlier, forcing evacuations and destroying three homes.
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Mosquitoes with West Nile virus have been found in Long Beach, Cerritos and Northridge, the Greater Los Angeles Vector Control District announces.
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USC is asking a judge to quash a subpoena from a father accused of getting his daughter into the school through fraud and bribery.
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Police say they seized multiple high-powered firearms from the home of Rodolfo Montoya, a Long Beach hotel cook accused of planning a mass shooting.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom, in response to the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants, is weighing pardons for Californians targeted for deportation.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement shut down a real hotline for detained immigrants run by the California group Freedom for Immigrants less than two weeks after it was prominently featured on the show.
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Los Angeles County could soon become the nation’s largest jurisdiction to ban the sales of flavored tobacco — a move aimed at fighting what public health officials increasingly call an epidemic of e-cigarette use among teenagers.
Times Investigations
College admissions scandal renews scrutiny of recruited athletes to elite colleges.
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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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The 9th Circuit court ruling striking down anti-camping ordinances will harm the very people it purports to protect.
Gov. Gavin Newsom is pushing Southern California officials to plan for more than three times the new housing they proposed.
Los Angeles could bar people from sleeping on streets and sidewalks near schools, parks and day cares and in other prohibited areas under a newly proposed set of rules that has drawn fire from activists.
With wildfire season underway, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti announced a plan to make it easier to clear homeless encampments in severe fire zones.
Miguel Santana, the former city administrative officer who has prodded Los Angeles to be more urgent and efficient in building housing for homeless people, is leaving the Proposition HHH citizens oversight committee.
The homeless crisis is rewriting the history of Los Angeles. Can the city meet the challenge?
First in a series: Big Mama and her neighbors live in a homeless encampment in Los Angeles. Through a special housing initiative they’ll soon have the opportunity to move into apartments.
Big Mama and her friends were promised new apartments, but there were delays. Weeks later, a few residents received new apartments, but Big Mama and Top Shelf were left behind.
After moving into their apartments, Big Mama, Top Shelf, and other former residents of the homeless encampment find life indoors difficult.
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Climate & Environment
At 86, Julie Newmar, the curvy dancer/actress who made Catwoman an icon, has a simple plan for overcoming life’s challenges: “Take everything you have and make it better.”
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Trump shocked the world when he said he was serious about wanting to buy Greenland. Just how much is it worth, and how does climate change fit in?
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Bernie Sanders announced a $16-trillion plan to face climate change during a California visit. Here’s a look at Green New Deal proposals out there.
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The Amnesty International comment came after President Jair Bolsonaro suggested without evidence that some nongovernmental groups may be setting fires over loss of funds.
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California fishermen are reporting one of the best salmon seasons in years after heavy rain and snow ended the state’s historic drought.
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Tropical cyclones in the Pacific basin rarely range north to California. In 1939 there were four in one month.
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An ethnic studies requirement for all high school students in California is on hold.
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A video of Pacifica High School students doing a Nazi salute reflects rising racial tension as Orange County grows more diverse.
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School officials are reopening their investigation into high school students caught on video making a Nazi salute as new racist footage surfaces.
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Earthquake early-warning systems will be installed or strengthened in Lake Tahoe, Death Valley and Mammoth.
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New techniques to detect small earthquakes have deepened scientists’ understanding of what causes bigger quakes.
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Data from seismic sensors in buildings across Southern California show how the 7.1 Ridgecrest earthquake produced surprisingly long periods of shaking in some areas.
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ShakeAlertLA, the early warning app, will now issue alerts for weaker shaking after the Ridgecrest quakes in July didn’t register in L.A.
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Los Angeles scooter riders received 643 tickets from the LAPD in the first seven months of 2019, mostly for riding on the sidewalk and for riding without a helmet, city data shows.
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The organizers have been denied a permit, and it remains unclear what — if anything — will transpire the day of the planned event.
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We erase more than we landmark. What’s left, however, like Raymond Chandler’s Drexel Avnue house, is so close to us in time and place, we can still add to the story.
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Rotating power outages are just part of the summer and wildfire season. Here are 7 ways to prepare so you can still feel chill.
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The Sacramento Fire Department reported just after 10 p.m. Thursday that the agency had multiple units on the scene at Roseville Road and Marconi Avenue.
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A magnitude 4.0 earthquake was reported Thursday evening at 10:34 p.m., 15 miles from Ridgecrest, Calif.
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Authorities say Garden Grove police shot and killed a man in neighboring Westminster on Thursday.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement shut down a real hotline for detained immigrants run by the California group Freedom for Immigrants less than two weeks after it was prominently featured on the show.
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USC is asking a judge to quash a subpoena from a father accused of getting his daughter into the school through fraud and bribery.
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Federal authorities have broken an international crime ring that stole millions through fraud schemes and money laundering.
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Los Angeles scooter riders received 643 tickets from the LAPD in the first seven months of 2019, mostly for riding on the sidewalk and for riding without a helmet, city data shows.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom is pushing Southern California officials to plan for more than three times the new housing they proposed.
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Laws & Policy
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Gov. Gavin Newsom says California will join other states in asking a federal court to block the new rules that seek to indefinitely detain immigrant minors and families.
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The gun lobby is fighting California legislation that would eliminate ghost guns by requiring background checks on purchasers of a firearm’s essential part.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom visited Paradise Ridge Elementary School on Wednesday and told a second-grade class about Potter, his first pet.
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Sacramento Police cited an anti-vaccine activist for assaulting vaccine bill author state Sen. Richard Pan on Wednesday near the Capitol.
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The Gilroy shooter bought his weapon legally in Nevada. Now some California lawmakers want to meet with their Nevada counterparts and talk gun control.
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