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San Dimas High School and Lone Hill Middle School are placed on lockdown Thursday morning after reports of someone with a weapon on campus, officials say.
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A 22-year-old Santa Ana man told police he was using meth while caring for the child, authorities say.
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David Lesh and a passenger spent about half an hour in the water Tuesday after the single-engine Cessna went down in Half Moon Bay, near San Francisco.
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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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“My City of Angels helped me,” says Duanne Hardaway, who moved from the street to a new apartment under a program called Encampment to Home.
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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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As developers lobby the Trump administration for endangered species relief, California is moving to backstop wildlife threatened by federal rollbacks, including the San Bernardino kangaroo rat.
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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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Trump wants to buy Greenland from Denmark. In Solvang, the self-declared Danish Capital of America, people laughed at the idea.
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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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.
When L.A. tried to move an entire homeless encampment off the streets, some residents jumped at the opportunity. Others couldn’t overcome past struggles.
A homeless advocate has filed a federal lawsuit against a Sacramento County sheriff’s deputy, claiming that he retaliated against her for protesting the clearing of an encampment.
Culver City approved a temporary rent control measure Monday, joining other Southern California cities that have boosted tenant protections.
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Climate & Environment
The Amnesty International comment came after President Jair Bolsonaro suggested some non-governmental 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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Rising demand from unwitting consumers, local greed amid a failing economy, weak controls and corrupt law enforcement are driving the Danube’s last wild sturgeons to the brink of extinction.
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What’s happening on So Cal’s gardening scene? A big begonia show, a succulents symposium and lessons about invasive plants, mini roses and exotic cacti
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Law enforcement officials are targeting pot-growing sites in the Sierra where they say Mexican drug traffickers have been using a dangerous pesticide.
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Jair Bolsonaro said that nonprofits whose budgets have been cut may be setting fires “to draw attention against me, against the government of Brazil.”
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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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A broad coalition of educators and student groups is defending California’s draft ethnic studies curriculum.
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LAUSD will regain full control over programs for students with disabilities after decades of costly outside supervision.
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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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A dip in summer heat has led firefighters to do their mitigation work unusually late into the summer, ahead of what could be another terrible fall.
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Omar Salgado defied the odds in Room 20. But his is not a story about a miracle — it’s a story about medicine’s inability to accurately diagnose consciousness.
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A storefront library on a rundown stretch of Stockton’s east side is the product of a lifetime of collecting for Richard Soto.
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The troubled utility company is asking the state Legislature to let it borrow money without paying taxes so it can compensate victims of a devastating wildfire caused by its equipment
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A search was underway late Wednesday in an apartment building where authorities believed they would find a sniper who wounded a deputy in the parking lot of the Lancaster station.
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The pilot of the twin-engine Cessna Citation jet aborted its takeoff at Oroville Municipal Airport for unknown reasons shortly before noon, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said.
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The environmental law nonprofit Earthjustice filed the lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, National Parks Conservation Association, WildEarth Guardians and the Humane Society of the United States.
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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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Long Beach police said the man told a coworker Monday that he planned to come into work and shoot people. The hotel’s management contacted police.
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A dip in summer heat has led firefighters to do their mitigation work unusually late into the summer, ahead of what could be another terrible fall.
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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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Sheriff’s officials spent hours overnight searching an apartment building after a gunman fired at Deputy Angel Reinosa while he walked to his car.
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Laws & Policy
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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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California Gov. Gavin Newsom accused President Trump of trying to scuttle California’s strict car emissions standards to help the oil industry, calling it a “pathetic” decision that was disguised as a way to assist automobile manufacturers.
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L.A.'s Ethics Commission fined former planning chief Michael LoGrande $281,250, the largest penalty levied against a current or former city employee. It is the biggest fine ever imposed by the city for a “revolving door” case.
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