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Temperatures are expected to be about 10 degrees above normal, with highs reaching the mid-70s on Friday and Saturday before a slight dip on Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.
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Trump administration threatens to yank federal funds from California if the state continues to require health insurance plans to cover abortions. -
San Francisco’s district attorney announced that his office will be ending cash bail for criminal cases.
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Three gray whales have died on their recent southbound journey along the West Coast, prompting fears of another year of strandings and questions about what is imperiling the creatures.
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Elections officials are mailing cards to millions of California’s unaffiliated voters saying they can’t vote in the Republican presidential party. It’s true, and that’s exactly how GOP officials want things.
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At the VA campus in West L.A., two veterans took this year’s annual homeless count very seriously. One credits the VA with saving his life.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom has pilloried the utility, whose plan to emerge from bankruptcy needs approval by the California Public Utilities Commission, where Newsom has substantial influence.
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For Asian communities celebrating the biggest holiday on the calendar, what to give is fraught with pressure, rivalry and comical misunderstanding.
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All three men could be eligible for the death penalty if convicted on all charges
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Two prominent local Republicans, San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer and party chairman Tony Krvaric, said candidates should “stick to the issues.”
Times Investigations
Nearly 300 drinking water wells and other water sources in California have been found to have traces of man-made chemicals linked to cancer.
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Los Angeles Times reporters found two dozen cases in which a death investigation was harmed by the procurement of body parts.
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How firms helped rewrite a law to make it difficult for coroners to stop them from harvesting body parts.
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The Times found a rising number of death investigations across the country were complicated or upended after transplantable body parts were taken before a coroner’s autopsy.
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The Times found dozens of cases in which autopsy investigations were hindered or delayed by the procurement of tissues or organs — something the industry claims never happens.
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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti hopes to reach a preliminary agreement with the Trump administration on a joint plan to help combat the city’s swelling homeless crisis.
The Southern California median sales price hit a new record of $550,000 last month, a 7.2% increase from the same period a year earlier.
Sen. Holly Mitchell and a coalition representing low-income communities have come out against Senate Bill 50, complicating a key legislative deadline.
I stood at the front of the classroom and made my pitch to the 25 students who had been accepted into Careers for a Cause, an inaugural training program in homeless services offered at Los Angeles Southwest College.
Careers for a Cause equips people to work in homeless services. These participants, fresh from their own hardships, can relate
For 15 years, Clementina Verjan has run the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s annual point-in-time count.
A Facebook group for homeless people has more than 1,200 members. They share stories and tips on surviving on the streets.
Oakland’s ordinance is the strictest of its kind in the state, covering both public and private housing.
An LAPD commander pointed to the city’s growing homeless population and an uptick in crimes committed by and against homeless people.
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Climate & Environment
Trump’s move to soften fuel-economy and emissions standards “will lead to vehicles that are neither safer, nor more affordable or fuel efficient,” a Democratic leader says.
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Gov. Newsom’s water policies appear in flux amid lobbying by competing interests. “A lot of people are wondering what’s going on,” says one environmental activist. “It’s a huge mess.”
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Big oil companies shower consumer and environmental groups with subpoenas, burdening them with costs.
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The Trump administration overhauls Obama-era water safeguards, significantly narrowing which bodies of water deserve federal protection.
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The U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced it wants to transform 22,000 acres of public land in the southern Owens Valley into one of the largest geothermal leasing sites in the state.
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There’s so much to do in the Southern California garden right now, such as creating water-saving berms -- called hügel berms -- in your backyard.
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University of California students protest plans to raise tuition this fall at a Board of Regents meeting Wednesday as Gov. Gavin Newsom takes their side.
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In-state UC students are getting a great deal. Make the rich ones pay much more so poor students can benefit.
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The head of Cal State University asks trustees to delay a vote on adding a fourth year of quantitative reasoning as an admissions requirement.
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Light shaking was felt in the San Fernando Valley
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Stellar Solutions Inc. has mothballed a costly project aimed at improving detection of electromagnetic pulses - ‘luminosities’ - thought to precede earthquakes.
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The deployment of 35 specialists came in response to a request from the Puerto Rican government to the California Governor’s Office after the quakes.
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The earthquake occurred 28 miles from California City, 58 miles from Barstow, 60 miles from Tehachapi and 62 miles from Rosamond.
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Police are investigating the fight as an assault with a deadly weapon.
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“When city staff reached out to operators in the area, they were told that the number of shelter beds was too small to justify the operators’ bids,” Mayor Will O’Neill said.
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The Lydia D. Killefer School voluntarily desegregated in 1944, three years before Méndez vs. Westminster forced Orange County schools to integrate.
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The worker was tied to the caryota palm about 11 a.m. Thursday when it fell and injured him at the Embassy Suites by Hilton San Diego-La Jolla
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In Defense of Animals criticizes movement of elephants, captive breeding
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Reports of hate crimes rose in Los Angeles for the fifth straight year in 2019, increasing 10.3% over the year before and reaching their highest level since 2002, according to data released Wednesday.
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An aviation company has identified the three firefighters who died in an air crash in Australia, where they were flying in a California-based C-130 and helping to battle wildfires.
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For Asian communities celebrating the biggest holiday on the calendar, what to give is fraught with pressure, rivalry and comical misunderstanding.
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Two prominent local Republicans, San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer and party chairman Tony Krvaric, said candidates should “stick to the issues.”
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Elections officials are mailing cards to millions of California’s unaffiliated voters saying they can’t vote in the Republican presidential party. It’s true, and that’s exactly how GOP officials want things.
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Authorities say Anurag Chandra of Corona chased six teenagers after one of them played a “ding-dong-ditch” prank at his home.
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Three gray whales have died on their recent southbound journey along the West Coast, prompting fears of another year of strandings and questions about what is imperiling the creatures.
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Laws & Policy
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State Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) showed effective leadership when she pulled Senate Bill 50, which targets single-family zoning and would lead to greater housing density, from the chamber’s appropriations committee, giving it a fighting chance at passage.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom is urging a federal judge to reject Pacific Gas & Electric’s blueprint for getting out of bankruptcy and renewing his threat to lead a bid to turn the beleaguered utility into a government-run operation.
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Momentum is building in California to legalize wagering on athletic contests, setting off intense competition among rival gambling interests.
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Two council members co-sponsored resolution to convince MLB to give L.A. 2017 and 2018 World Series titles
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Los Angeles is repealing a law that required companies seeking city contracts to reveal any ties with the National Rifle Assn., weeks after a federal judge blocked the city from enforcing those rules.
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