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Police say Paul K. Kiyan, 34, was arrested by Los Angeles police after a homeowner saw him on surveillance video inside the house.
The Orange County district attorney is asking for anyone with information in any road rage incidents involving Marcus Eriz and Wynne Lee to call (714) 834-7000.
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Moises and Daniel Monterrubio heel-toed across a 2,800-foot-long highline strung across Yosemite gullies plunging as deep as 1,600 feet.
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June gloom will make a comeback in coastal areas, though hot weather and fire conditions will continue in other areas through Monday.
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A reporter reflects on years spent covering killings in Los Angeles County and what that’s taught her about people and human nature.
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More than 40 of the county’s law enforcement agencies have yet to provide the district attorney’s office names of officers who have histories of dishonesty and other misconduct that could affect their credibility in court.
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Crowds converged on a street festival in Leimert Park honoring Juneteenth, the long-celebrated holiday marking the freeing of slaves in the U.S. — and now the newest federal holiday.
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This COVID-19 vaccination strategy is considered key to reopen the U.S.-Mexico land border crossing, which has been closed to nonessential travel.
One person was dead and two others were wounded and taken to a hospital after a shooting in a South Los Angeles neighborhood.
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The unusual heat wave that baked Southern California is ending soon.
State Laws, Politics & Policy
Even as the economy is rebounding, unemployment remains high, and the debt is forecast to grow beyond the $24.3 billion estimated for the end of this year, state officials said.
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A 54-year-old Oakland man is arrested on suspicion of assaulting Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday during a visit to the city to promote small businesses.
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With the pandemic waning, Californians who receive unemployment benefits will next month have to start showing that they are looking for work
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Local elections officials began sounding the alarm soon after Democrats unveiled new legislation last week allowing the Newsom recall to be held as early as Aug. 24.
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A growing encampment has left significant damage in the freshwater marsh. But that’s no reason not to be sensitive to the needs of homeless people.
California: Most read
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June gloom will make a comeback in coastal areas, though hot weather and fire conditions will continue in other areas through Monday.
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A reporter reflects on years spent covering killings in Los Angeles County and what that’s taught her about people and human nature.
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Moises and Daniel Monterrubio heel-toed across a 2,800-foot-long highline strung across Yosemite gullies plunging as deep as 1,600 feet.
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The woman died in early June from an infection tied to the Alpha variant first detected in the U.K. She was older than 65 and had underlying health conditions, officials said.
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L.A. County is reporting about two COVID-19 deaths a day, while the Bay Area is reporting four.
Unemployment in California fell to 7.9% in May, the fourth month state payrolls grew by more than 100,000 jobs. Still, full recovery will be slow.
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Reopening lessons: Leave time to park, don’t talk at the movies and 10 more important things Angelenos forgot in the pandemic
Californians can now access a digital copy of their COVID-19 vaccination record as part of a new system unveiled by the state, officials said.
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Fully vaccinated employees in most workplaces can now stop wearing masks in their places of employment.
A state board ends physical distancing requirements for California workers and says many fully vaccinated employees can stop wearing masks.
Village Well Books & Coffee opened in L.A.'s worst pandemic month, on a famously doomed corner. For owner Jennifer Caspar, it was all a lucky break.
Dr. Courtney Martin is medical director for maternity services at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital. During the pandemic, she split her time between maternity COVID patients and an overflow COVID-19 ward.
The man collecting the Loma Linda hospital’s COVID victims was all but invisible
California fully reopened Tuesday, so residents who are fully vaccinated were able to go into many public places without masks, but many kept them on.
After a brutal year of economic uncertainty, booksellers in L.A. are expecting a full recovery. But the June 15 reopening is reigniting safety concerns.
Even if you are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, you don’t need to stop wearing a mask if doing so would make you uncomfortable.
Despite Tuesday’s massive reopening and the loosening of COVID-19 rules in California, many continue to wear masks in public.
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Creative Artists Agency and a group of filmmakers such as George Clooney are creating an L.A. magnet school to help train high schoolers for jobs on movie and TV sets.
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San Bernardino County school officials failed to provide proper oversight of millions of dollars meant for the neediest students, state officials said.
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Retired teachers say the desire among students to pursue a trade rather than college is admirable and should be supported, not belittled.
Housing & Homelessness
‘Faces of Mankind’ exhibit at Anaheim’s Muzeo Museum and Cultural Center displays 35 portraits of unhoused and formerly unhoused people.
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Redondo Beach addressed its homeless problem with a court diversion program that provides services instead of custody. When the pandemic brought it to a halt, the city came up with workaround. Now homeless court is held outdoors, in a police station parking lot.
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A San Clemente couple’s visit to Doheny State Beach to feed homeless people ended with the husband in handcuffs and his wife calling 911
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The city of Los Angeles filed a legal motion seeking dismissal of what it called a ‘misguided’ lawsuit that attempts to compel local government to provide shelter to thousands of homeless people living on downtown sidewalks and next to freeways.
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Two new studies say the nation’s housing availability and affordability crisis is expected to worsen significantly following the pandemic.
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With California’s economy reopening, rent in Los Angeles and other big cities is beginning to rise.
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A magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported at 1:22 a.m. Friday 14 miles from El Centro, Calif.
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A magnitude 2.7 earthquake was reported at 8:27 p.m. Thursday two miles from Redondo Beach, Calif.
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Bay Area counties prep for extended drought, particularly Santa Clara, which had to drain water behind a key dam deemed vulnerable to earthquakes.
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The temblor Sunday evening was 20 miles from Santa Rosa.
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President Biden signed legislation into law Thursday to make Juneteenth, or June 19, the 12th federal holiday.
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Los Angeles has reopened, but many first responders remain unvaccinated. Just over 50% of the city’s firefighters and police officers have gotten one shot.
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On Saturday — Juneteenth — CBS will air the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo, the nation’s only touring all-Black rodeo.
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Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It is Saturday, June 19.
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This week, a wildlife care center in Huntington Beach announced that 22 pelicans have been brought in since October with severe fractures to a bone in their wings.
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Juneteenth will be the first major opportunity to party in public after the city opens back up June 15.
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Josey Peters has been on a mission since 2007 to clean up other people’s messes in public areas.
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What you need to know about the drought in the Western U.S.
A Riverside County grand jury has indicted Councilman Joel Lopez and another man on charges of operating an illegal cannabis dispensary.
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The Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors unveiled the Beach Emergency Evacuation Lights System, or BEELS, on Friday.
A wildfire in the Los Padres National Forest has triggered evacuations, including for a Buddhist monastery.
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Garcetti said he was “disappointed” by his chief of staff’s Facebook posts. But he said he also knows she has “learned from those mistakes.”
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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the formation of an advisory commission that would develop a pilot reparations program targeted at a cohort of Black Angelenos.
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Several residents asked the Roseville City Council to consider a motion that would allow them to fly the flag in recognition of the LGBTQ community. The council voted against it.
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The Rev. Richard Van Horn, a dogged advocate in California for people with mental illness and their families, dies at 81.
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Juneteenth has always felt like one of the last corners of Black life untouched by mass consumerism. But now it’s open to all Americans. I’m worried.
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Black Lives Matter Los Angeles and other protesters claim the LAPD has “failed completely” to hold officers accountable for abuses in 2020.
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The Los Feliz home of reality show host Zak Bagans, once owned by the LaBianca family, has sold for the second time in three years for $1.875 million.
Columnists
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Consumers are asked to limit their electricity use between 5 and 10 p.m. to avoid the shutoffs that happened during last year’s heat waves.
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New research has found a 22% drop in humidity across the Southwest since the 1970s.
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MacKenzie Scott announced donations of $2.7 billion to 286 organizations. More than three dozen of the recipients in Scott’s latest round of giving are California community colleges and universities, arts groups and nonprofits that work for social justice.
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New California guidelines say that fully vaccinated people are no longer required to wear masks in most public settings.
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Here’s a rundown of what changes today: No more masks required for most vaccinated people, with a few exceptions.
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An excessive-heat warning was issued for 10 a.m. Tuesday through 9 p.m. Friday in the mountains of Ventura and Los Angeles counties, not including the Santa Monica range.
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In our final installment, we look at earthquake insurance, important documents and good, old-fashioned cash.
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The San Francisco order will go into effect once the FDA gives formal approval for one of the COVID-19 vaccines.
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As of Tuesday, restrictions were lifted at most businesses, and Californians fully vaccinated for COVID-19 could go without masks in most settings.
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Tuesday is not the first time California has tried to reopen its economy during the COVID-19 pandemic. But officials are hopeful it will be the last.
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Los Angeles will be the biggest beneficiary of the money, which was proposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to help cannabis businesses acquire permanent licenses.
