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A magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported at 1:22 a.m. Friday 14 miles from El Centro, Calif.
San Diego County must pay $7 million to a man who suffered brain damage in custody.
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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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Hope View Elementary teacher Holly Sjogren presented Guide Dogs of America with a $2,000 check Wednesday.
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A Superior Court judge declares that Measure J, which Los Angeles County voters approved last year to set aside public funds for social services, is unconstitutional.
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Within a week after Aiden Leos was fatally shot on the 55 Freeway in Orange County, his suspected killer was brandishing a gun at another driver on the same highway, prosecutors said in a court filing Wednesday.
Evacuations have been ordered as firefighters battle a fast-moving brush fire in a sparsely populated area of Lancaster on Thursday afternoon.
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Carlon was memorialized as a beloved fire specialist whose modest demeanor belied his fierce dedication as a public servant for two decades.
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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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California officials announced the latest total, 40,098,803 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, Thursday afternoon.
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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.
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If California legislators didn’t pass a budget by their June 15 constitutional deadline, by law their pay would be withheld. But there’s a lot in the plan and it’s not just a placeholder, columnist George Skelton writes.
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A state appeals court has given the state a deadline for moving defendants deemed incompetent to stand trial into treatment. They now languish in jail for months before they get help.
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Given California’s low coronavirus infection rates and high vaccination levels, Newsom’s move to rescind restrictions will likely ensure that the shutdowns and political missteps that helped fuel dissension fade into memories by the time voters head to the polls for a recall election, political observers say.
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The man collecting the Loma Linda hospital’s COVID victims was all but invisible
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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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Jennifer Rocha wanted to celebrate her bachelor’s degree in sociology from UC San Diego with a photo shoot, but instead of run-of-the-mill graduation pictures, she decided to honor her parents and the sacrifices they made for her.
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The allegations of misconduct and inappropriate “boundary crossing” at the Thacher School date to the 1980s.
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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.
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.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced Tuesday that cable cars will resume running in August with free ridership for a month.
The San Francisco order will go into effect once the FDA gives formal approval for one of the COVID-19 vaccines.
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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Gov. Newsom selected 10 top winners Tuesday in California’s COVID-19 vaccine sweepstakes. Each takes home $1.5 million.
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.
Here’s a rundown of what changes today: No more masks required for most vaccinated people, with a few exceptions.
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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.
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Rory Siwula, 9, is looking for greater accessibility to restrooms at Killybrooke Elementary, where she attends.
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School districts anxiously await fall to see how many families stick with the education choices they made over the last year. A lot is at stake.
Housing & Homelessness
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 26-year-old Long Beach man was arrested on charges of driving under the influence and vehicular manslaughter in the death of a pedestrian in a wheelchair.
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Councilman Mike Bonin says he’s angry about the suffering he sees. So let’s get going on solutions.
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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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A magnitude 4.1 earthquake was reported at 11:54 p.m. Saturday, 10 miles from Healdsburg, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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You can buy a plethora of earthquake kits online, but which ones are the best for the price? Here’s a look at four off-the-shelf options.
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An infant boy was found inside a trash can in a women’s bathroom at Yvonne Burke-John D. Ham Park
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Janine Bouey has filed a complaint against CBP, saying she was singled out, penetrated vaginally and strip-searched over the course of three hours.
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Authorities said the man was armed and wanted for assault with a deadly weapon in Ventura County. The deputies involved are on administrative leave.
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The isolated showers developed over Orange County on Thursday morning and moved into the San Gabriel Valley, the National Weather Service said.
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In response to soaring temperatures, California’s electrical grid operator issues a Flex Alert asking residents to conserve energy during peak evening hours Thursday and Friday.
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A man charged with barreling his pickup into a San Jose bar, killing 1 person and injuring 2, was having oral sex at the time, court documents show.
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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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Their feathery displays adorn and agitate a swath of the San Gabriel Valley, but peacocks may soon face the wrath of the Board of Supervisors, who are exploring whether to ban residents from feeding the birds.
‘The sheer violence of it’: How updates in DNA technology may solve SoCal bank teller’s 1997 slaying
‘The sheer violence of it’: How updates in DNA technology may solve SoCal bank teller’s 1997 slaying
How updates in DNA technology may solve Southern California bank teller’s 1997 slaying.
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Garcetti chief of staff Ana Guerrero said she regrets posting certain private Facebook messages, saying they “were never meant to be seen” outside her small group of friends.
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San Francisco police have arrested a man after he allegedly stabbed a 94-year-old Asian woman Wednesday in an unprovoked attack.
Officials responded to multiple brush fires along the southbound lanes of the 73 tollway on Wednesday afternoon, forcing a closure of the highway.
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A candidate seeking to unseat L.A. City Councilman Curren Price says she asked the Ethics Commission to investigate whether he had violated city rules.
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A woman died Wednesday while hiking on the Pacific Crest Trail near the community of Anza in Riverside County.
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Sheriff’s deputies completed the lockout early Tuesday morning. The ex-wife of the saloon and grill owner initiated the eviction.
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L.A. council backed a ban on the sale of flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes. Some hookah products were exempted.
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William Gude, a regular critic of the LAPD, said his 22-year-old son Marcelis was shot dead in an incident that also left an 8-year-old girl wounded.
Columnists
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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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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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For many seniors, the end of high school is marked by the first in-person gathering of their entire class since March 2020 — graduation.
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Japan has a sophisticated system to alert its residents, and Mexico City has ubiquitous sirens. Is California’s early warning system ready?
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People are much more important than kits. People will help each other when the power is out or they are thirsty. And people will help a community rebuild and keep Southern California a place we all want to live after a major quake.
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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.
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Vaccinated Californians 18 and older will have a chance to win trips to San Francisco, Palm Springs, Anaheim, Los Angeles or San Diego in a new Vax for the Win lottery to be held July 1.
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California poised to drop mask rules for vaccinated workers and distancing rules for everyone at workplaces.
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The California workplace safety board suggested it will move to allow fully vaccinated employees to stop wearing masks while on the job, even around those who are not vaccinated.
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The long-promised change will take effect Tuesday, the same date as the state’s full economic reopening, and bring the state into alignment with the CDC’s COVID-19 guidelines.
