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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. -
Police shut down a street in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday after finding a fireworks-laden drone atop a building.
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Officer William Rodriguez, a 10-year LAPD veteran most recently assigned to the Valley Traffic Division
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John Lee Cowell, a 28-year-old parolee, is accused in the “prison-yard type of attack” that killed an 18-year-old and injured her 26-year-old sister.
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The incident was reported near UCLA’s campus at Westwood Boulevard and Le Conte Avenue
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Buena Park officials are warning residents of coyote encounters, noting the predators’ activity tends to increase in the summer.
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A look at the gruesome tactics allegedly employed by a Valley group of the MS-13 gang.
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Richard Orcutt, of San Luis Obispo, has been charged with 10 felonies. Authorities say he sent threatening greeting cards to property owners on his street.
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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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In the most extensive study to date on sea level rise in California, researchers say damage by the end of the century could be far more devastating than the worst earthquakes and wildfires in state history.
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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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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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The Los Angeles Unified School District is not giving the public enough information about how schools use more than $1 billion a year in state funding meant for high-needs students, according to a complaint filed Thursday with the California Department of Education.
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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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The necessity of stockpiling supplies became more pronounced after twin earthquakes rocked Southern California, yet many people still fail to prepare, experts say.
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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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After nearly 800,000 gallons of oil and water seeped into a dry creek bed near Bakersfield, the cleanup continues.
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My quest had something to do with my parents dying in recent years, with memories and regrets, with the meaning of family, and borders and what separates and connects us.
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A faction within MS-13 used gruesome tactics to kill seven people in the L.A. area since 2017, prosecutors said.
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A magnitude 4.2 earthquake was reported Tuesday evening at 7:29 p.m.
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An accident involving a CHP officer has led to a shut down of the 10 Freeway in San Bernardino.
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A faction within MS-13 used gruesome tactics to kill seven people in the L.A. area since 2017, prosecutors said.
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Officer William Rodriguez, a 10-year LAPD veteran most recently assigned to the Valley Traffic Division
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A look at the gruesome tactics allegedly employed by a Valley group of the MS-13 gang.
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Buena Park officials are warning residents of coyote encounters, noting the predators’ activity tends to increase in the summer.
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The necessity of stockpiling supplies became more pronounced after twin earthquakes rocked Southern California, yet many people still fail to prepare, experts say.
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Laws & Policy
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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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California just became the first state to outlaw racial discrimination based on hairstyle. Gov.
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