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More lightning could hit Northern California fire zone
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Los Angeles police will resume enforcing a ban on homeless people pitching tents and lean-tos around the Venice boardwalk
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A San Fernando Valley animal rescue is suing Los Angeles Animal Services, arguing that the city must reopen two of its animal shelters that have been shuttered since April.
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The UC Santa Cruz campus and nearby towns have been under evacuation orders due to wildfires in the region.
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The Orange County Health Care Agency said Thursday that the California Department of Public Health has approved the reopening for in-person learning at at least 24 private elementary schools and one public K-6 school.
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Witnesses told sheriff’s officials that a man was firing a handgun indiscriminately outside a Vons shopping center.
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The COVID-19 pandemic and cutbacks at USPS have created chaos in the mail system. Do you work for the Postal Service? We want to hear from you.
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After Britney Spears moved to oust her father as her sole conservator, Jamie Spears agreed to bring back a co-conservator to manage her person and estate.
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UCLA will further scale back fall reopening plans, sharply limiting on-campus housing and in-person classes, to comply with strict L.A. County public health rules on what local colleges and universities must do to protect against the coronavirus.
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California’s job growth decelerates last month, lagging the overall U.S., amid rising COVID-19 infections and shuttered businesses.
State Laws, Politics & Policy
Newsom rekindled his criticism of Trump — which has focused on the president’s environmental and immigration policies — on national television Thursday evening.
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A bill to add tough penalties for police officers who do not intervene when witnessing a fellow officer use excessive force was sidelined in the California Legislature on Thursday. Assembly Bill 1022 by Assemblyman Chris Holden (D-Pasadena) would have made an officer an accessory to a crime if they were capable of stopping an incident of excessive force by another officer and failed to do so.
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Facing extraordinary circumstances because of the COVID-19 pandemic and a looming deadline for legislative action, California lawmakers on Thursday reduced the number of bills moving forward that deal with the state’s affordable housing crisis.
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Skelton: Don’t pay any attention to Trump. Voting by mail in California is safe, secure and reliable
Skelton: Don’t pay any attention to Trump. Voting by mail in California is safe, secure and reliable
“Voters should be able to cast their ballots in the safest way possible,” Democratic Secretary of State Alex Padilla said. “The safest bet is to vote by mail.”
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Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday he plans to apply to the federal government for a $300 weekly supplemental unemployment benefit for jobless Californians.
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Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., a former cop who murdered 13 people and raped more than 50 women and girls, was sentenced to life in prison.
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The first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Los Angeles was a man from Wuhan, China, who was hospitalized in a secret ward in January and remained the sole patient diagnosed with the virus here for five weeks.
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Accounts from employees at California postal facilities provide a glimpse of the chaos amid both the pandemic and widespread cuts imposed by the USPS.
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Fires in Northern and Central California have killed at least five people, destroyed 629 structures and scorched more than 1,400 square miles.
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As L.A. County’s coronavirus cases decline, a top county medical doctor says waivers for reopening elementary schools may soon be possible.
Now that San Diego County is off the state’s COVID-19 watchlist, businesses and schools are formulating plans to move their operations back indoors.
The teenage girl, whose age and identity were not released, had underlying medical conditions, the county’s health department said.
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With 233 positive tests among inmates — 226 in roughly the past two weeks — Folsom has the largest coronavirus outbreak in the state’s prison system.
Mail would no longer be delivered to residents’ doors at Mar Vista Gardens under a new plan. Officials say it would keep letter carriers safer, but residents are skeptical.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti ordered the power cut at a swanky Hollywood Hills residence that police say held parties in violation of public health orders and is the home of several TikTok stars, including Bryce Hall.
Health officials note an overall drop in death rates across all demographics and a “narrowing of the gap” among coronavirus victims of varying racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds.
Sacramento has been plagued by bottlenecks in its COVID-19 testing system that have reduced capacity and slowed results, especially during the summer surge.
Have you noticed any issues with mail delivery or with the postal service in your area? How have these issues affected you? Share your experiences with The Times.
The pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on Latinos — and on the mortuaries that help families say goodbye to their loved ones
Coronavirus is ravaging Kern County in the hard-hit Central Valley. But local leaders say there is confusion over public health measures.
Photos: Christian faithful have been gathering, raising their hands skyward and, for some, stepping into the cool Pacific to be baptized.
Catholic schools in California are seeking waivers to open for in-person learning. In Nevada County, one has gone back to class.
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For fixing their daughters’ admission to USC, Lori Loughlin and J. Mossimo Giannulli were sentenced to two months and five months, respectively, in prison.
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Instruction formally began Thursday in Los Angeles schools with students, parents and teachers largely prepared to soldier through despite technical glitches and other difficulties.
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An entire UC campus was ordered to flee from flames marching toward Santa Cruz as tinder and redwoods burn unimpeded after many dry years.
Housing & Homelessness
One reason L.A.'s homeless people have avoided a COVID disaster could be that they live outside
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Southern California home prices rose 8.5% in July from a year earlier, as buyers rushed to take advantage of rock-bottom mortgage rates.
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Santa Ana City Council has decided to reduce affordable housing requirements to encourage development during the economic downturn
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Have you tried to renegotiate your rent during the pandemic? If so, we’d like to hear about your experience.
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L.A.'s growing population of homeless people had enough troubles. They didn’t need the coronavirus on top of them — or this wretched, blistering heat wave.
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On Sept. 1, California’s courts will begin processing eviction and foreclosure cases again. With a federal deal far from certain, all eyes are on Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state Legislature to come up with a fix.
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A magnitude 4.8 earthquake was reported 57 miles from Ridgecrest.
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A magnitude 4.0 earthquake was reported at 5:55 p.m. Tuesday 13 miles from Ukiah
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The magnitude 3.3 earthquake at 1:27 p.m. Monday was centered two miles from Fremont, four miles from San Jose and eight miles from Santa Clara, Calif.
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The early Monday morning Northern California earthquake occurred 12 miles from Clearlake, 21 miles from Santa Rosa and 28 miles from Ukiah.
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Evacuations expand in the Bay Area and across the state as more than 694,000 acres burn and more than 500 structures are destroyed.
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The L.A. city attorney has filed more than 300 charges against the owners of four downtown buildings after a May 16 explosion burned 11 firefighters.
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More than 60,000 people have been forced to evacuate their homes from the threat of the fires, which have been propelled by erratic winds near the coast and hampered by resources stretched thin by dozens of blazes.
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A cluster of wildfires has again prompted evacuations in Sonoma County and other parts of the North Bay.
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Hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion is openly naming fellow rapper Tory Lanez — who is now under investigation — as the person who shot her a month ago.
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A Long Beach backyard turns into a DNC watch party. Socially distanced, of course.
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The judge said that any prosecutor in Dist. Atty. Todd Spitzer’s office who won the case would be in a position of making his boss look foolish for saying the case could not be prosecuted.
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One after the other, the agents settled into the witness box and related what teenaged girls and young women had told them: Naason Joaquin Garcia, the leader of La Luz Del Mundo, an international church headquartered in Mexico, had raped them.
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‘Ghost guns,’ inking parties and a decades-long struggle to crack down on cliques within the Sheriff’s Department
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California’s oldest state park has suffered extensive damage from the C.Z.U. August Lightning Complex fires.
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Authorities on Thursday released body-camera video, which police say shows Anthony McClain was armed with a gun while running away from officers.
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Friends say the 55-year-old entertainment lawyer, who attended college and law school in Southern California and lives in L.A.'s Brentwood, would “make an impact” should Biden and Harris win in November.
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Two Los Angeles County sheriff’s captains are on administrative leave following allegations of sexual misconduct, according to officials and public safety sources.
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The California Independent System Operator, which runs the electric grid for most of the state, said further power outages aren’t anticipated.
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Two people have been arrested in connection with the robbery and beating of three transgender women in Hollywood, the LAPD announced.
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The Pacific Gas & Electric employee was assisting fire crews when he was found unresponsive in his vehicle Wednesday near Vacaville, Cal Fire officials said.
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San Francisco Bay Area air quality is hazardous. Much of the ground is covered in ash distributed by gusty winds, adding to pollution already clouding the vicinity.
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A majority of respondents said they opposed reopening K-12 schools for in-person instruction in fall 2020 amid the pandemic.
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In California’s first major unemployment fraud case in the coronavirus outbreak, 21 people in Northern California allegedly helped steal $250,000.
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Diamond Bakery on L.A.'s Fairfax Ave. has survived a lot over 74 years. Loyal customers and a GoFundMe campaign hope to carry it through the pandemic.
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Some of the state’s largest coronavirus outbreaks have occurred in workplaces, but fear of retaliation is preventing employees from voicing safety concerns, workers and labor organizers say.
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The body that runs the electric grid for most of California has declared a statewide Stage 3 emergency due to excessive heat driving up electricity use and straining the grid.
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Migrant farm workers across California fear evictions as the coronavirus forces them out of jobs. Without legal status, they have few protections.
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Airbnb will for the first time be taking legal action against a guest for violating its ban on unauthorized parties, the company said Wednesday.
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Some of the 400 vendors who peddle wares at weekend swap meets say they are the hapless victims of a dispute that has been at an impasse since May.
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The Pavilion, on the first floor of South Coast Plaza’s North parking structure, is accessible only by appointment. About 100 boutiques are participating.
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The city delayed the return of street sweeping tickets by two months or more to encourage residents to stay home.
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The pandemic has forced thousands of workplaces to quickly adjust to remote work. Will your employer keep some of those changes in place permanently?
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A bridge that was supposed to take a year is incomplete after four, partly because of corrosion and other problems involving California’s high-speed-rail contractors.
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With coronavirus cases surging and indoor dining banned, cities are letting struggling restaurants use sidewalks, parking spaces and private lots to serve meals.
