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Investigators say a small plane that crashed into a Southern California home was getting ready to land at a nearby airport when its engine stalled
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Caren Carl Mandoyan asked a judge to order Sheriff Alex Villanueva to conduct a new investigation into the domestic violence allegations against him. -
A magnitude 3.2 earthquake was reported Monday at 4:46 a.m. 12 miles from Soledad, Calif., according to the USGS.
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L.A. County is home to more than 30 library systems, with a growing number of patrons signing up for multiple cards to borrow digital books. But Macmillan Publishers is tightening the rules.
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Dropping out early, she helped her vice presidential prospects and reelection chances
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A 28-year run for TV coverage of the California Legislature will end in January
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It’s hard for poet Daniel Morales Leon, 38, who works as a cook at a coffee shop in the Arts District, to think of himself as an artist with a capital A.
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Plus, the biggest headlines shaping California this morning.
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Any speculation — and there’s lots of it — about which candidate will benefit most from California Sen. Kamala Harris dropping out of the race last week isn’t worth much.
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Claremont United Methodist Church unveils a Nativity scene evoking images that have become synonymous with criticism of the Trump administration’s border policies.
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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As the Supreme Court takes up a case on criminalizing homelessness, it’s worth considering the costs of incarceration verses providing rent and services.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has agreed to develop an plan to build more housing and to appoint someone from the private sector to oversee it.
L.A. city officials won a key battle Thursday over a pair of local laws meant to ease the way for more housing for homeless people, defeating a challenge from a Venice group that sought to overturn the ordinances.
The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to approve a new law that will crack down on campaign contributions from real estate developers seeking city approval for their projects.
Robert Marbut, known for urging cities to stop “enabling” homeless people, is poised to become the next executive director of federal homeless agency. His predecessor, Matthew Doherty, will advise California on homelessness.
Hesperia passed an ordinance intended to address what one City Council member called a “demographical problem” — the city’s increasing black and Latino population, prosecutors said.
After five years of leading LAHSA through restructuring and growth, Peter Lynn is stepping down as executive director. Homelessness has increased 33% during his tenure.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation contends that L.A. approves too many “luxury” buildings and not enough affordable housing. Judges have rejected its efforts to overturn approval of high-rises in Hollywood.
Herb Wesson, who is running for L.A. County supervisor, has a new campaign ad in which he is seen searching skid row for his homeless son, Doug.
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Climate & Environment
It came as a bittersweet surprise to biologists and government agencies monitoring the steadily shrinking Salton Sea’s slide toward death by choking dust storms and salt.
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The Marshall Islands’ capital city is flooded by storm waves, dengue fever and flu are rampant, and its president pleads for help from the global community.
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Storms caused by atmospheric rivers cause about $1 billion damage each year, a new study shows, with more damage in California than any state studied.
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Throw out romaine lettuce if it came from California’s Salinas Valley, the Food and Drug Administration advises as an E. coli outbreak grows.
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Climate models been frequently attacked by climate change deniers, but guess what? They did a remarkably good job of predicting what actually happened.
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The weather phenomenon accounted for $42.6 billion in flood damage in 11 Western states over 40 years, with most of the destruction in California.
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The Resnicks have donated additional funds to help upgrade UCLA’s photo lab.
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Five-hundred homeless families in L.A. will get to skip a wait as long as 10 years for subsidized housing under program offered by the city and LAUSD.
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A ProPublica review finds many UC health science professors do not fully disclose outside income as required. The UC system requires them to turn over such earnings above a certain cap.
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A magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Sunday at 11:03 a.m. 29 miles from Ukiah, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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A magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported Friday evening at 8:27 p.m.
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The earthquake was reported Friday at 4:20 p.m. 10 miles from Avalon and 10 miles from Long Beach, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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A magnitude 3.4 earthquake was reported Thursday evening at 9:33 p.m. Pacific time 30 miles from Ridgecrest, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Police also seized a cache of weapons, including assault rifles and handguns, from the home of a Camarillo man last week.
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Sanctuary founder Patty Perry reportedly fell after a tiger wrapped its paws around her legs and another jumped onto her and “began to pull on her.”
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A video replete with slurs targeting African-Americans that was allegedly shot on U.C. Berkeley’s campus has gone viral and drawn a furious response.
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Robert Stahlnecker is arrested. He allegedly made eight calls in seven minutes to one office, threatening to kill an intern who answered the phone.
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As of Sunday morning, the heaviest rain in Los Angeles County was in the mountains and foothills.
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Therapists are challenging a California law requiring that they report it to police when a patient has admitted viewing child porn online. “This is a terribly unpopular cause,” one therapist says.
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Overtime pay for firefighters has surged by 65% in the past decade, further evidence of the toll an unprecedented string of wildfires has taken on California.
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Claremont United Methodist Church unveils a Nativity scene evoking images that have become synonymous with criticism of the Trump administration’s border policies.
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L.A. County is home to more than 30 library systems, with a growing number of patrons signing up for multiple cards to borrow digital books. But Macmillan Publishers is tightening the rules.
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Never has the coffee shop been a more charged symbol than in a neighborhood going through gentrification. The Free Cafe in traditionally black Leimert Park wants to spur dialogue about this and other issues. But some say it’s a symptom of gentrification.
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Overtime pay for firefighters has surged by 65% in the past decade, further evidence of the toll an unprecedented string of wildfires has taken on California.
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The region’s 24-year-old alt weekly abruptly shuttered the day before Thanksgiving.
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Laws & Policy
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Three City Council members called for full taxpayer financing of election campaigns in L.A., reviving an idea that was proposed before and went nowhere.
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California’s new inspector general has found more than $13 million in “disallowed” expenditures reported by state and local government agencies.
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California’s campaign watchdog agency has suspended a policy barring members from contributing to federal candidates after one commissioner donated to Bernie Sanders.
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Karim Webb’s company has helped nearly a dozen applicants advance past an initial step in the licensing process, prompting questions about fairness from some rival entrepreneurs.
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After being elected to the Senate in a 2016 cakewalk, Sen. Kamala Harris should have spent the next three years focused exclusively on representing Californians in Congress, helping the state on such vital issues as water development, environmental protection, healthcare and homelessness.More Coverage
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