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LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 12, 2023 - Server Battur Erdenebat, center, tends to customers at Louise's Trattoria in Larchmont Village in Los Angeles on September 12, 2023. It is the only remaining Louise's outpost in an empire that once included 15 restaurants in Southern California and four others scattered across the country. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

This L.A. Italian restaurant chain was an incubator for star chefs. Now, one location remains

Louise’s Trattoria, the once ubiquitous L.A. chain that employed food luminaries such as TV personality Guy Fieri and chef Gino Angelini, has dwindled to one restaurant.

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Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho holds a poster collage titled "criminal behavior" as he announces on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023, that his office is suing the city of Sacramento for creating a public nuisance by failing to take stronger action on homeless camps. A Sacramento prosecutor is suing California's capital city over failure to clean up homeless encampments. Sacramento District Attorney Thien Ho says his office asked the city to enforce laws around sidewalk obstruction and to create additional professionally operated camping sites. (Hector Amezcua/The Sacramento Bee via AP)

D.A. sues Sacramento over failure to clean up homeless encampments

Sept. 20, 2023

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COMPTON CA SEPTEMBER 20, 2023 - A Cessna made a hard landing today on a street adjacent to Compton/Woodley Airport on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 22023, but no one was hurt. The plane was damaged in the landing, which was reported at about 8 a.m. on 159th Street and Central Avenue, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

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Plane crash-lands in Compton neighborhood

The pilot of a single-engine plane crash-landed in a Compton neighborhood near the airport Wednesday morning. The FAA is investigating.

SANGER, CA - FEBRUARY 22: A water well, shown left, went dry in August 2022 on the property of Michael Torres, 66, and wife Anita Torres, 61, not shown, along Fairbanks Ave. in the Tombstone neighborhood, unincorporated Fresno County, on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023 in Sanger, CA. Torres bought the property 27-years-ago, living on a smaller home since 1998. He built a new home in 2007 where he lives with his wife and two adult chidren. He signed up with Self Help Enterprises who transport non-potable water to a 2500 gallon tank located on his property. His granddauther is also shown at left. In the community of Tombstone in Fresno County, residents' wells have continued going dry during the drought as nearby farms have heavily pumped groundwater, drawing down the water levels. Residents have lost access to water and are now depending on tanks and deliveries of water by truck. A potential solution for the area would involve connecting to water pipes from nearby Sanger, but progress has been slow. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

Thousands of California wells are at risk of drying up despite landmark water law

Sept. 20, 2023

Rimforest, CA - December 04: Water pours out of a pipe beside one of the sites in the San Bernardino Mountains where the company BlueTriton Brands collects water for bottling. Photos taken in San Bernardino National Forest on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021, near Rimforest, CA. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

California orders bottled water company to stop ‘unauthorized’ piping from springs

Sept. 19, 2023

POMONA, CA - SEPTEMBER 13: Lynsey Kwon , 27, moved back to California where she grew up, and works as a registered nurse at Pomona Valley Hospital in Pomona, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
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Much-needed nurses are flocking to California — for some of the same reasons others are fleeing

Sept. 19, 2023

Westlake Village, CA - September 13: The Las Virgenes reservoir on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023 in Westlake Village, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

A celebrity-studded L.A. water district has a very big drought idea: Seafloor desalination

Sept. 19, 2023

Suspect arrested in killing of L.A. County sheriff’s deputy in Palmdale

Sept. 18, 2023

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The California conundrum: Fewer people, more homes, but an acute housing shortage

Sept. 18, 2023

‘Round them up and castrate the boys’; California conservationists take aim at wild burros

Sept. 17, 2023

Receiving food stamps won’t kill your green card chances. How ‘public charge’ works

Sept. 17, 2023

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LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 23, 2022 - - Construction workers walk past Building 207 that is being refurbished as housing for veterans on the Veteran Affairs West LA campus in Los Angeles on June 23, 2022. This is the Collective's first project, a 60-unit building for senior veterans and their families and is scheduled to open this fall. Along with U.S. VETS, the Collective is made up of Century Housing, a nonprofit that builds and finances affordable housing, and Thomas Saffran and Associates, a Brentwood-based for-profit affordable housing developer. The master plan calls for 14 buildings to be brought up to current standards but preserved in their original form with another 14 built from the ground up. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Veterans’ claims over misuse of the VA West L.A. campus may go to trial

A judge has set the stage for a possible trial over the slow progress of West L.A.’s Veterans Affairs’ campus to build housing for homeless veterans.

Sept. 20, 2023

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