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The killings occurred Saturday night in Pico Rivera, near Los Angeles International Airport and in East L.A.
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California has entered another drought. But depending on who you ask, the last one may have never really ended.
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After Adam Toledo, Daunte Wright and Caron Nazario, I’d like to think something has changed. But the many calls for police reform sound just as hollow.
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In-person schooling looks very different from neighborhood to neighborhood, especially at the elementary school level.
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The demonstration for police-shooting victims Daunte Wright and Adam Toledo was patrolled by dozens of Los Angeles police officers in riot gear, but there were no signs of violence.
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The Los Angeles County Department of Health reported 527 new coronavirus cases and 29 related deaths on Saturday.
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Liliana Carrillo’s unraveling over the last year alarmed people in her life.
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The 55-year-old pier in Ocean Beach has significant deterioration that could cost up to $50 million to fix
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Tijuana recently finished repairs after sewage flowed over the border for weeks, shuttering beaches as far north as Coronado.
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West Hollywood will regularly shut down part of Robertson Boulevard to vehicle traffic starting Saturday to let businesses offer goods and services outside.
State Laws, Politics & Policy
Senate Bill 93 requires employers in hospitality and business services industries to offer new positions for similar work to employees laid off during the pandemic.
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The former L.A. mayor has criticized the recall effort targeting his 2018 gubernatorial foe, Gavin Newsom. But he hasn’t publicly ruled out a run.
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A key legislative committee approves bills to help overhaul the EDD’s operations as the agency apologizes for another error that interrupted payments.
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California’s congressional Democrats have the chance to demand restoration of state and local tax breaks. Will they take it?
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Bills moving forward in the state Legislature were applauded by an array of civil rights and police reform groups.
California: Most read
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Liliana Carrillo’s unraveling over the last year alarmed people in her life.
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In-person schooling looks very different from neighborhood to neighborhood, especially at the elementary school level.
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California has entered another drought. But depending on who you ask, the last one may have never really ended.
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University of California admissions officers explain their decisions in a year of record applications that brought widespread heartbreak and some joy for high school seniors competing for spots.
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Disneyland and other theme parks are reopening with pandemic safety protocols, many of which lean heavily on tech.
Vaccine hunters are the unofficial heroes of the coronavirus age. Wielding smartphones and tablets, PCs and Macs, these internet wranglers blast through barriers that stand between loved ones’ arms and COVID vaccines.
Some 40,000 California workers quit the labor force in March, pulling the unemployment rate down slightly to 8.3% but feeding stubborn joblessness.
Researchers are developing vaccines that could be taken as a capsule, a dissolvable tablet or a nasal spray. But the barriers to success are high.
More than half of Californians 18 and older have been at least partially vaccinated, according to CDC data.
The goal is to have a pediatric vaccine available for all ages from 6 months to adulthood
With everyone 16 and older now eligible to get vaccinated, Riverside County health officials expect herd immunity to COVID-19 in eight to 10 weeks.
Officials moved the lone remaining occupant of the category, Merced County, into the less-stringent red tier after reexamining the region’s data.
California removes the last barrier to widespread adult access to COVID-19 vaccines, though getting an appointment may still take some patience.
During the pandemic, these clinics have helped women with painful gynecological issues avoid long waits in ERs or longer waits to see their doctors.
Among communities with at least 5,000 residents, those that saw the largest relative increases in their vaccination rates over a weeks-long stretch ending Monday were lower-income areas with predominantly non-white populations.
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After more than a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, close physical contact has become anything but routine. Here are some stories of first post-vaccine hugs.
First routine, then forbidden and now cherished, hugs have come to symbolize the next phase of the pandemic
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One photo shows someone wearing a T-shirt that says “Catholics vs. Convicts III,” another shows Cathedral players making a gang sign
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The late state Sen. William Craven of Oceanside promoted the school’s founding, but he upset many with his remarks in the 1990s about immigrants.
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This year’s astounding number of rejections for UC applicants reveals several big problems, including the woeful unpopularity of the humanities.
Housing & Homelessness
L.A. County Supervisor Kathryn Barger recommended Dr. David Drew Pinsky, more commonly known as “Dr. Drew,” to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority commission, prompting outcry among some homeless service advocates.
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Is a tiny house really a glorified toolshed? Are the unhoused serving as guinea pigs for architect’s design experiments? Our columnist visits L.A.'s new wave of shelter solutions.
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The philanthropic company of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan is spending millions to help South Los Angeles landlords.
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L.A. could soon usher in a new law that would ban landlords from harassing renters. Landlords oppose the measure, citing several objections.
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In March, slightly more than half of homes sold for over the asking price across Los Angeles. In some spots, the share was even bigger.
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After the countywide homeless count was canceled, Hollywood activists conducted their own. The surprise: Street homelessness was down 12% in Hollywood.
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A magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported at 9:30 p.m. Thursday 18 miles from Fortuna, Calif.
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A magnitude 3.1 earthquake was reported at 2:45 a.m. Sunday seven miles from Ridgecrest, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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A magnitude 3.4 earthquake was reported Saturday at 7:13 a.m. Pacific time three miles from Santa Rosa, Calif., according to the USGS.
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A magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported at 8:57 p.m. Friday in Yucca Valley, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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There were 15 hate crimes reported against Asian Americans in 2020, the LAPD found, up from seven in 2019 and nine the previous year.
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Oakland police say the march began peacefully, but the crowd began throwing objects at officers.
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‘It always felt to me like I’d fallen off a fire escape,” says Yale graduate Shawn Pleasants, “and once you get on the ground, the ladder is 12 feet up in the air.’
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COVID-19 vaccine eligibility is opening up, and more than half of California adults have now had a shot — even with Johnson & Johnson’s paused for clot concerns.
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The ArcLight Hollywood with its Cinerama Dome means a great deal to Hollywood the neighborhood. Here’s hoping for a rescue that saves it but doesn’t try to reinvent something that works.
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Baldwin Park had the second highest rate of COVID-19 deaths in the San Gabriel Valley, yet it lagged in vaccinations. Here’s how a church and various other groups set up a clinic
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A medic rappelled down to the man who was clinging for dear life off the side of a vertical cliff face. Below lay “imminent death.”
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Sgt. Anthony White was a 31-year veteran of the LAPD.
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Fresno County sheriff’s deputies are searching for two suspects who they said were working in the fields with the victims.
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Face masks and social distancing will be enforced. Signs will direct foot traffic, and furniture and bookshelves have been reorganized.
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The owners of Mrs. Dalloway’s bookstore in Berkeley are ready to retire and pass the torch.
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Last year, Jacob Cruz’s niece received a phone call at work: Her uncle was coming home. The news was so impossible to believe that she hung up to gather herself.
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Republicans capped state and local tax deductions in 2017. California Democrats aren’t joining their East Coast colleagues in insisting on a fix now.
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Dozens of protesters marched in Hollywood calling for justice following the fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright in a Minneapolis suburb.
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City staff is proposing replacing the island’s old drainage infrastructure with an automated pump station.
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Anaheim City Council votes 5 to 2 to give City Manager James Vanderpool the ability to approve more contracts without members’ consent.
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Videos from LAPD body cameras show a group of officers slowly trailing Samuel Ponce for several blocks last month, firing hard foam projectiles at him. After Ponce threw a hammer and lifted a second object, an officer opened fire.
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Mother admits drowning three children in Reseda apartment
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The lone remaining denizen of the purple tier is Merced County after Inyo County advanced to the less-restrictive red tier Tuesday.
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California reopens enrollment for its state health insurance exchange as new federal assistance could lower monthly premiums by $1,000 or more.
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Your questions about vaccination-related civil liberties, privacy and discrimination are answered.
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June 15 is the targeted reopening date California officials unveiled, as the number of COVID-19 cases continues to fall and more people are getting vaccinated.
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Final vote of new regulations governing Airbnb-style rentals clears the way for imposing a yearly cap on whole-home rentals that will not go into effect until July 2022
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After more than a year of coronavirus-related closures, California has a reopening date: June 15. Here are the basics.
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California aims for a full reopening on June 15, depending on a sufficient vaccine supply and a stable, low hospitalization rate, and masks.
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