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LOS ANGELES, CA - DECEMBER 6, 2019: The Christmas tree at The Grove is 100-feet tall and has 15,000 lights and 10,000 ornaments on December 6, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. The white fir tree comes from the Mt. Shasta area.(Gina Ferazzi/Los AngelesTimes)

Eastside Santa Barbara holiday parade canceled over fears of ongoing ICE raids

Santa Barbara Eastside Society, which organizes the decades-old event, announced the cancellation of the this year’s parade due to ‘the threat to our Latino families documented or undocumented.’

The 8000 block of Alhambra Avenue, where the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said they encountered a man with a gun in one hand and the toddler in the other Thursday.

Man holding toddler is shot dead by sheriff’s deputies after standoff in Paramount

FILE - In this Aug. 17, 2011, file photo, concertina wire and a guard tower are seen at Pelican Bay State Prison near Crescent City, Calif. California's high court on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021, ruled that prison inmates cannot legally possess up to an ounce of marijuana behind bars under the state's 2016 law allowing recreational pot. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Some say California prisons should have more single-cell units

This photo, taken from a body-worn camera video, shows the moment before a San Diego Police Officer fatally shot 16-year-old Konoa Wilson as he ran away from gunfire on Jan. 28, 2025. (San Diego Police Department via AP)

San Diego to pay $30 million to family of 16-year-old teen shot by police

Motorists cruise Santa Rosa Avenue, better known as Christmas Tree Lane, in Altadena.

Christmas Tree Lane will light up tonight, carrying on beloved tradition in fire-ravaged Altadena

Los Angeles, CA - August 14: Gregory Bovino, Chief Patrol Agent of the El Centro Sector and Commander-Operation At Large CA (center), marches with federal agents to the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building after US Border Patrol agents produced a show of force outside the Japanese American National Museum where Gov. Newsom was holding a redistricting press conference on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA. (Carlin Stiehl / Los Angeles Times)

L.A. County will ban masked immigrations agents. The feds almost certainly won’t listen

Belmont Shore, CA - November 13: An aerial view of Dogz Bar & Grill, which is one of four in Long Beach's Belmont Shore area that agree to a 30-day change of operating hours, closing at midnight, rather than 2 a.m. in in Belmont Shore Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. On Tuesday, the bar was one of four in the city of Long Beach's Belmont Shore area to agree to a 30-day change of operating hours. Legend's, along with Shannon's Bayshore Saloon, Dogz Bar & Grill, and Panama Joe's are closing at midnight, rather than 2 a.m. Local residents are claiming Belmont Shore has become too dangerous, including public drunkenness and late night music. A 32-year-old man, Jeremy Spears, was killed in Belmont Shore in late October after a spat. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Crime, drunkenness and busking: Residents say Long Beach’s Belmont Shore is unsafe

African American students JoAnn Allen & Minnie Ann Dickey walk down the steps outside Clinton High School, Clinton, Tenn.

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Los Angeles, CA - December 04: The state of CaliforniaOs elections and business website appears to be hosting pornography and cash apps as seen through a web search on Thursday December 4, 2025. (Kelvin Kuo / Los Angeles Times)

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Belmont Shore, CA - November 13: An aerial view of Dogz Bar & Grill, which is one of four in Long Beach's Belmont Shore area that agree to a 30-day change of operating hours, closing at midnight, rather than 2 a.m. in in Belmont Shore Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. On Tuesday, the bar was one of four in the city of Long Beach's Belmont Shore area to agree to a 30-day change of operating hours. Legend's, along with Shannon's Bayshore Saloon, Dogz Bar & Grill, and Panama Joe's are closing at midnight, rather than 2 a.m. Local residents are claiming Belmont Shore has become too dangerous, including public drunkenness and late night music. A 32-year-old man, Jeremy Spears, was killed in Belmont Shore in late October after a spat. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
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Rancho Palos Verdes, CA - October 30: Joe Badame and Martha de la Torre and her mom, Elvia de la Torre, not shown, who are still living without municipal electricity and natural gas service due to ongoing landslide movement in the area in Rancho Palos Verdes, pose with their propane generator. It's been more than a year, and Joe is worried about the winter and wants SCE to reenergize their neighborhood. His mother-in-law requires power during the night, which is hard on their solar panel. SCE says it's still too dangerous to reconnect power. Photo taken in Rancho Palos Verdes Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
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Calabasas, CA - September 16: Black Box Security on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025 in Calabasas, CA. Ali and Suzanne Salehpour surrounded by family photos and investigative journals talk about the death of their daughter Amelia Salehpour. The parents of the young woman whose death was initially categorized as an accidental overdose, but has since led to murder charges. The couple is now suing the city of LA., alleging that LAPD botched or ignored numerous opportunities to save their daughter's life. (Al Seib / For the Los Angeles Times)
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Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson starts a Bible-reading marathon at Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, June 28, 1931. The contest will continue through July 1, with what is said to be the largest Bible in the world being used by contestants. (AP Photo)
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Iva Toguri D'Aquino, Tokyo Rose of the Japanese propaganda "Zero Hour" broadcasts which were beamed to American troops in the Pacific during the war, seems in a pensive mood as she looks through the bars of her cell in Yokohama, Japan, Oct. 28, 1945. Born in Los Angeles, 29 years ago to Japanese parents, she is awaiting trial for treason against the United States. (AP Photo)

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MONTEREY PARK-CA-DECEMBER 9, 2013: Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca faces the media during a news conference in response to an announcement of the F.B.I. arrests of 17 sworn members of the Sheriff's Department in connetion with a federal probe into activities at county jails at the Department Headquarters in Monterey Park on Monday, December 9, 2013. (Christina House / For The Times)

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FILE - In this June 5, 1968, file photo, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy addresses campaign workers moments before being shot in Los Angeles. At his side are his wife, Ethel, and his California campaign manager, Jesse Unruh, speaker of the California Assembly. Prosecutors for the first time are not opposing the release of Sirhan Sirhan. The 77-year-old prisoner on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, faces his 16th parole hearing for fatally shooting Kennedy in 1968. (AP Photo/Dick Strobel, File)
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Los Angeles, California, July 13, 1981 - HILLSIDE STRANGLER - Angelo Buono, "Hillside Strangler" suspect, smiles as he listens to motion by the deputy district attorney to dismiss murder charges against him. With him is one of his attorneys, Kathy Mader. Photo Credit: R.L. Oliver / Los Angeles Times

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Boster, Mark -- - LOS ANGELES,CA.,JUNE 9, 2009: Veteran LAPD detective Stephanie Lazarus,49, appears at the Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles for her arraignment on murder charges June 9, 2009. Lazarus is charged with the 1986 murder of Sherri Rasmussen. (Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times)

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Los Angeles, CA - May 29, 1986 : Richard W. Miller (center) with his defense attorney (right) watch as the jury arrives to the Little League Park location as part of the espionage retrial. The park is located at Ohio Ave, and Sepulveda Blvd. May of 1986. ( Al Seib / Los Angeles Times )

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(Original Caption) Only a few hours of life remaining. San Quentin, California: Pictured as she entered the San Quentin Prison gates today is Barbara Graham, 31, mother of three, who is doomed to die in the gas chamber at 10:00 am tomorrow for the 1953 murder of Mrs. Mabel Monohan, 62, of Burbank, California. A car brought her to San Quentin from the Corona, California prison. Two men convicted with her, Jack Santo, and Emmett Perkins, will be executed a few hours later in the same gas chamber.

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