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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 01: A demonstrator carries a sign reading 'No More Money For Mass Deportations' as immigrants rights supporters march downtown during a 'March for Dignity' on March 01, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. The march was organized by faith groups along with immigrants rights organizations as a peaceful protest over the Trump administration's immigration policies. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

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SANTA CLARITA, CA - OCTOBER 14: A pedestrian runs through the rain on Soledad Canyon Road in Santa Clarita, CA on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025. The storm is expected to produce between three-quarters of an inch to an inch-and-a-half of precipitation across most areas with two to four inches possible on south-facing mountain slopes. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

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Los Angeles, CA - June 14: LAPD fires flash bangs at anti-ICE protesters on Spring St. during the "No Kings Day" rally on Saturday, June 14, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA. (Carlin Stiehl / Los Angeles Times)

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TV painting instructor/artist Bob Ross jubiantly holding up paint pallette & brushes as he stands in front of wall covered w. his landscape paintings in his studio. (Photo by Acey Harper/Getty Images)

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Hawthorne, CA - August 08: Ronald Fransico Maren a sales clerk at Bluebird Liquor, for good luck, rubs all the lotto tickets purchased for the $1.55 billion Mega Millions jackpot on a blue bird on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023 in Hawthorne, CA. Maren has worked at Bluebird Liquor for 31 years. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

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A massive police and SWAT response took place at an apartment building in downtown Los Angeles following a report of possible gunfire from a rifle or a shotgun Wednesday morning, and two suspects have now been taken into custody after a standoff lasting over seven hours.

Volley of gunshots at L.A. apartment building leads to 8-hour SWAT standoff

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Yucca Valley, CA - October 22: From left: Andrew Fortner, Patryk Swietek, Ryan Cherlin, Josh Rudin, partners of the Cohost Company, a luxury short-term management business, Joshua Tree's largest short-term rental management company, show off a short term rental property in Yucca Valley Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025. Operators are exiting the short-term rental market in the Joshua Tree area after the pandemic drove the number of listings to record highs. Some are selling, at times facing the prospect of losing money in a real estate market that has cooled. Others are seeking long-term tenants in a bid to offset their mortgages as they wait to see if home sales pick up. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
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FILE - In this June 5, 1968, file photo, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy addresses campaign workers moments before being shot in Los Angeles. At his side are his wife, Ethel, and his California campaign manager, Jesse Unruh, speaker of the California Assembly. Prosecutors for the first time are not opposing the release of Sirhan Sirhan. The 77-year-old prisoner on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, faces his 16th parole hearing for fatally shooting Kennedy in 1968. (AP Photo/Dick Strobel, File)
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Los Angeles, California, July 13, 1981 - HILLSIDE STRANGLER - Angelo Buono, "Hillside Strangler" suspect, smiles as he listens to motion by the deputy district attorney to dismiss murder charges against him. With him is one of his attorneys, Kathy Mader. Photo Credit: R.L. Oliver / Los Angeles Times

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Los Angeles, CA - May 29, 1986 : Richard W. Miller (center) with his defense attorney (right) watch as the jury arrives to the Little League Park location as part of the espionage retrial. The park is located at Ohio Ave, and Sepulveda Blvd. May of 1986. ( Al Seib / Los Angeles Times )

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(Original Caption) Only a few hours of life remaining. San Quentin, California: Pictured as she entered the San Quentin Prison gates today is Barbara Graham, 31, mother of three, who is doomed to die in the gas chamber at 10:00 am tomorrow for the 1953 murder of Mrs. Mabel Monohan, 62, of Burbank, California. A car brought her to San Quentin from the Corona, California prison. Two men convicted with her, Jack Santo, and Emmett Perkins, will be executed a few hours later in the same gas chamber.

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Oct. 1910: The bombed out Los Angeles Times building with poster announcing temporary locations of Times departments. On the back of this photo was written: Following the bombing, the newspaper moved its offices to a branch at 531 S. Spring St. A rival paper offered its presses to that the paper could be printed. In a box on the front page of the Times on Saturday morning Oct. 1, 1910, Harry Andrews, Managing Editor of the the Times wrote: They can kill on men and can wreck out building, but by the God above they cannot kill the Times.

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