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Low vaccination rates among Latino residents may be attributed to the difficulties of making and traveling to appointments and suspicion of the vaccine.
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No Democratic candidate has come forward to challenge Gov. Gavin Newsom yet, but my colleague Seema Mehta reports on why many political experts believe it is inevitable.
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A deadly fireworks explosion in Ontario is a reminder of California’s patchwork of pyrotechnics laws: illegal in L.A., legal in the next town over, sometimes. The current status quo partly dates to a Sacramento corruption and sex scandal in the 1980s.
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The city of Los Angeles plans to clear a large homeless encampment at Echo Park Lake on Thursday and close the park for renovations, sources told The Times.
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Online conspiracy theorists have pivoted their focus to a “new world order” that targets vaccines and even the Gov. Gavin Newsom recall election.
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Can Black Americans and Asian Americans make common cause in battling white supremacy?
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Attorneys for family of Black man killed by Pasadena police say video shows shooting was unjustified
Attorneys for family of Black man killed by Pasadena police say video shows shooting was unjustified
Anthony McClain was shot and killed by Pasadena police during a traffic stop in August 2020.
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The EPA’s investigation found that staff and detainees were instructed to apply HDQ Neutral, a pesticide, inside the facility as often as every 30 minutes, without proper ventilation and at a dilution rate that’s double the concentration allowed for disinfectant use.
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Attack was partially captured on Zoom.
State Laws, Politics & Policy
Gov. Newsom will soon name a replacement for former state Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra, who was just confirmed as Biden’s secretary of Health and Human Services.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom resolved to save as many lives as possible at the beginning of the pandemic -- but he lost that resolve as time went on.
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No prominent Democrat has stepped up as a potential Newsom alternative. Experts say the party should have a backup for a worst-case scenario — but doing so may hurt Newsom.
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Requiring only 12% of the voters who turned out for the previous election to sign a petition is too low a threshold in this political era.
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Newsom’s choice to succeed Xavier Becerra will land in a prime position to run for governor or U.S. Senate in a few years.
California: Most read
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Online conspiracy theorists have pivoted their focus to a “new world order” that targets vaccines and even the Gov. Gavin Newsom recall election.
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Four members of Orange County’s resurgent far right spoke at a pro-Trump rally in Washington the day before the Capitol riots. Their violent rhetoric targets foes both real and imagined.
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The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the incident in Diamond Bar as a possible hate incident.
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The Biden administration is said to be mulling a $3-trillion infrastructure plan it may soon unveil. California transportation agencies are onboard.
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L.A. County is focusing on second doses, but the bottleneck will be less severe at sites run by the city. L.A. officials say they’ll offer 70,000 shots this week.
In the race to improve vaccination rates in California’s most vulnerable areas, community groups are leading the charge.
Parents say health concerns and an unsatisfactory hybrid learning plan are fueling their reluctance.
As schools in more urban parts of California debate the particulars of reopening campuses, their counterparts in rural Northern California may have lessons to offer.
Los Angeles County public health officials continued to report a decline in coronavirus case numbers Sunday, raising hope that more restrictions on businesses might soon be relaxed.
The pandemic robs Southern California’s Indigenous communities of cultural celebrations.
Students can sit three feet apart in classrooms, instead of four or six, potentially allowing schools to avoid hybrid, part-time schedules. L.A. Unified will stick with six feet.
The pandemic is far from over. But for scores of movie-crazed Angelenos, the reopening of multiplexes signals hope is on the way.
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Young people continue to drive community transmission of the virus, while older people account for most fatalities, county health officials said.
Last March, Gary Handman drew the first of what would add up to 365 cartoons to mark each day of the COVID-19 pandemic. His daily offerings grew to become his “Journal of the Plague Year.”
The physician penned new lyrics to the popular Hamilton song, “My Shot,” to inspire people to get vaccinated.
To date, 23% of Californians have received at least one vaccine dose, putting the state in 33rd place. Johnson & Johnson supplies should increase soon.
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The CDC says pupils can sit 3 feet apart in classrooms, changing from the 6-foot rule that forced some schools to remove desks and stagger scheduling.
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A former teacher on what the state needs to do to make its new ethnic studies curriculum successful.
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An Asian and Pacific Islander student group complained to the school after seeing the post by faculty member Thomas Smith
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As the pandemic eases, USC said Thursday that it would be able to hold in-person commencement ceremonies this spring, allowing students to celebrate this rite of passage in classic fashion.
Housing & Homelessness
Shelter and housing get people out of homelessness. But L.A. needs expansive programs to prevent people from becoming homeless in the first place.
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The median home price in the Southern California region rose nearly 15% in February compared with a year earlier, according to data from DQNews. The record-high shows how a pandemic-fueled housing boom is extending into 2021.
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They met on a cold night, both taking refuge in the waiting room at Union Station, then upgraded to a tent in the homeless camp on the banks of Echo Park Lake.
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Architect professor Alexis Navarro designed and built an accessory dwelling unit that is affordable and attractive. The result is inspiring.
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Architectural designer Demar Matthews is using the Black vernacular — language, art, landscape, even hairstyles — to inform his work.
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After facing fines and the threat of an abatement warrant, El Centro Cultural de México in Santa Ana will agree to work with the city to clear a homeless encampment in its parking lot.
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A magnitude 3.0 earthquake was reported Saturday afternoon at 3:49 p.m. in Ontario.
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Tsunami watch canceled in Hawaii after magnitude 8.1 quake; no threat for California.
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A magnitude-3.6 earthquake was reported at 5:46 a.m. Sunday 63 miles from Porterville, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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A magnitude 3.8 earthquake was reported at 12:45 a.m. Sunday 28 miles from King City, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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The district attorney’s office said Steven Tennant, 32, of Yorba Linda posted a fellow officer’s photo and personal cellphone number on a dating website.
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Family plans to sell 1887 Culver House, built to match Twin Inns
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A chorus of elected leaders, including Mayor London Breed, called for San Francisco Board of Education Vice President Alison Collins to resign for a series of tweets she posted in 2016.
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After a year of lodging homeless people, the center will be repurposed to lodge children arriving at the border without parents
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Forced to shut down because of the pandemic, Amoeba Music plans to open in its new Hollywood Boulevard location on April 1.
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The share of unaffiliated, independent voters in California’s electorate has dropped by almost 5 percentage points over the last two years.
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Plus, a look at the week ahead and the biggest headlines from across California.
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Sia Marie Xiong was identified Sunday as the victim of a fatal shooting in Compton, and her family is calling for the 28-year-old’s death to be investigated as a possible hate crime.
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Sunday’s rally followed others this weekend in Atlanta and across the country, including in Southern California and the Bay Area.
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The Triton alumnus, who began the collection about 25 years ago, says he has “always been interested in stories less told.”
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The investigation is continuing to determine whether the suspect was using the drone to sell drugs, police said.
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While President Biden has taken steps to change Trump administration asylum policies, many are still in effect to keep asylum seekers out of the U.S.
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Multiple women accuse owners of the Cloak & Dagger nightclub of sexual misconduct and of overlooking misconduct by famous members.
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The far right in Orange County remains a force and is building on a long history of extremism.
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A gathering in San Francisco called for an end to hate against Asians in wake of shootings in Atlanta.
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An ACLU attorney said the case raises questions about whether immigration officials are undercounting detainee deaths during the pandemic by releasing people just before they die.
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In the wake of this week’s shootings at three Atlanta-area spas, advocates hope the national focus on hate crimes and incidents toward Asian Americans will empower more people to report their experiences.
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A woman was arrested in connection with a house fire that killed her two children and grandmother in Lake Elsinore in January.
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Columnists
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Cannabis entrepreneurs complain that the sluggish rollout of L.A.’s social equity program is hurting some of the people it was supposed to help.
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San Diego, Riverside, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties were among those freed from the most-stringent tier in California’s reopening plan
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After months of COVID-19 closures, Los Angeles County unlocked a significant portion of its battered business sector Monday, allowing in-restaurant dining, gym workouts, movie-going and a host of other activities at indoor venues.
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The governor’s address came after the EDD said its backlog of delayed, unapproved claims has doubled since the start of the year to more than 1 million.
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The venues will be allowed to welcome back fans far sooner than expected under new guidance the state unveiled Friday.
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More parts of California moved out of the most restrictive purple tier Tuesday.
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The iconic and trendy Melrose Avenue shopping district in Los Angeles has seen its business struggling as the COVID-19 pandemic hits its one-year anniversary. The reopening of Pink’s Hot Dogs after a two-month shutdown reflects the cycle of hope and despair.
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In the Central Valley, the spring harvest is coming, and the transition to Blue Shield is complicating efforts to vaccinate farmworkers against COVID-19.
