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A week after the City of Commerce approved local cannabis businesses, city officials were involved in a brawl at a convention.
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A federal indictment detailing killings by the MS-13 gang’s Fulton clique shows the Central American gang’s bloody tactics could be escalating in the Valley.
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Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter.
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Mass murderer? Cult leader? Musician? Charles Manson’s son, Michael Brunner, wrestles with father’s legacy and notoriety
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Growing up, there were things about my mom that never changed, like the way she’d take us downtown to shop in her old Toyota Corolla, get spun around and end up terribly lost.
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A biological finding by the National Marine Fisheries Service threatens to derail the Trump administration plan to increase Delta water deliveries to Central Valley farmers.
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A reporter wanted new sources on Charles Manson. Then he found Manson’s son.
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Every weekend one of the most colorful markets sets up on the sidewalk of the Piñata District. It’s street food theater that overwhelms the senses.
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Call it a bailout or pure pragmatism, Gov. Gavin Newsom did the right thing with a new law to help utilities pay for costs associated with wildfires sparked by their equipment.
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A magnitude 4.6 earthquake was reported Wednesday evening at 8:59 p.m. near Ridgecrest, Calif.
Times Investigations
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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Two years ago, when the mayor’s office in St.
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Foreign purchases of U.S. residential real estate fell 36% to the lowest annual rate since 2013, as slowing overseas economies, the strong dollar and the White House’s anti-immigrant rhetoric put a chill on demand.
A coalition of skid row advocates accused Los Angeles of wanting to give the bulk of skid row over to luxury housing developers, ignoring the thousands of people living in tents and shelters in the blighted downtown district.
When Eric Garcetti ran for mayor six years ago, he rode a wave of anger over the political power wielded by the union that represents workers at the Department of Water and Power — and later vowed to reform the agency that Los Angeles residents love to hate.
Over the last several months, cities and counties across California have been releasing homeless counts.
Property owners and residents of shelters on skid row are going to court to block a contentious legal settlement that restricts Los Angeles’ ability to clear homeless encampments in the heavily blighted downtown district.
As of this week, landlords of Los Angeles rent-controlled buildings can raise rent by 4%, the first time in a decade the annual cap isn’t 3%.
Apartments and condominiums for the middle class could be coming to skid row, under a rezoning plan unveiled Tuesday.
For years, President Trump has taken pleasure in beating up on his archnemesis of California, even when his attacks don’t align with the facts.
More than a decade ago, Los Angeles stopped putting people in jail for sleeping in the streets — a compromise laid out in a court settlement that halted police enforcement of laws barring encampments in public spaces until the city could build more housing for homeless people.
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Climate & Environment
After a ‘near-miss’ last year, Southern California Edison said it is confident transfer operations will go smoothly.
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Think of the most radioactive landscapes on the planet and the names Chernobyl and Fukushima may come to mind.
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Talking about global warming with friends and family helps them learn key facts about the scientific agreement on climate change and influences their beliefs.
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The Earth could support enough additional trees to eliminate about two-thirds of the carbon that’s in the atmosphere today as a result of human activities.
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The amount of sea ice circling Antarctica has suddenly plunged from a record high in 2014 to record lows in 2017. Scientists are stumped by the turnaround.
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Over the course of its expected lifetime, existing energy infrastructure will emit too much carbon dioxide to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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Federal law enforcement agents have seized the records of an L.A. charter school that recently closed amid allegations of fiscal mismanagement.
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The world’s biggest educational publisher will release all future editions of its U.S. titles digitally first, as students dump their traditional textbooks and switch to online learning.
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Shortly after federal authorities took down a national college admissions scam in March, officials at USC launched their own investigation with emails to dozens of students.
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A magnitude 4.3 earthquake was reported Tuesday afternoon at 1:11 p.m. near Livermore, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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A magnitude 4.5 earthquake was reported Tuesday afternoon at 1:15 p.m. Pacific time seven miles from Ridgecrest, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Aftershocks of the magnitude 7.1 earthquake near Ridgecrest have been creeping into areas close to two major earthquake faults, sparking concern.
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It’s been more than a week since two of the largest earthquakes to hit Southern California in nearly two decades hit, and the aftershocks keep coming.
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LAPD officers have cordoned off the area as they search for the suspect.
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Former Chief Alicia Ault said she was told it was incoming Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s “No. 1 priority” to reinstate Caren Carl Mandoyan by the Friday before Villanueva took office.
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Eight years after the Diocese of Orange purchased the glittering Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, the renamed Christ Cathedral has reopened its doors.
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Deputies were responding to a report of a man with a gun inside his vehicle threatening people.
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A judge in the murder case against Robert Durst agreed Wednesday to allow some handwriting analysis of a cadaver note that prosecutors say links him to a murder.
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Rufus the 150-pound tortoise escaped from his 10-acre yard in Santa Ynez.
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Los Angeles prosecutors have charged a Hawthorne man with murder, alleging he intentionally drove his family off a wharf, killing his two autistic sons.
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Mass murderer? Cult leader? Musician? Charles Manson’s son, Michael Brunner, wrestles with father’s legacy and notoriety
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A federal indictment detailing killings by the MS-13 gang’s Fulton clique shows the Central American gang’s bloody tactics could be escalating in the Valley.
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Former Chief Alicia Ault said she was told it was incoming Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s “No. 1 priority” to reinstate Caren Carl Mandoyan by the Friday before Villanueva took office.
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Every weekend one of the most colorful markets sets up on the sidewalk of the Piñata District. It’s street food theater that overwhelms the senses.
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A magnitude 4.6 earthquake was reported Wednesday evening at 8:59 p.m. near Ridgecrest, Calif.
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Laws & Policy
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Like thousands of Central American parents seeking asylum in the United States, Patricia panicked when, after she and her son crossed the Rio Grande into Texas last year, U.S. border agents took the boy away.
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The Majestic Yosemite can be called the Ahwahnee Hotel again.
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After six hours of heated testimony from conservationists and off-road vehicle enthusiasts, the California Coastal Commission on Thursday rejected the recommendation of its staff and voted against restricting vehicle access to Oceano Dunes — at least for the time being.
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There’s a new twist in the California-Trump brawl in the state Legislature.
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