Adam Elmahrek is an award-winning investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times who specializes in corruption. He started his journalism career in 2010 at the nonprofit news website Voice of OC, where he broke stories exposing misconduct in local government.
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Council President Nury Martinez requested a report on the city’s relationship with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California after a Times article detailed a pattern of accusations from women who worked there.
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L.A. County on Sunday reported 1,936 new coronavirus cases and 82 related deaths, comparatively low numbers that may in part reflect reporting delays.
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An assistant principal at a high school in San Bernardino County is accused of repeatedly sexually abusing a child when she was 7 and 8 years old.
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‘They thought I was so low’: Women say they were harassed, bullied, ignored at powerful water agency
‘They thought I was so low’: Women say they were harassed, bullied, ignored at powerful water agency
In interviews with current and former staffers and reviews of district records, court documents and audio recordings, The Times found a pattern of complaints alleging harassment and bullying of women at the Metropolitan Water District.
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Videos of the wedding show attendees without masks, an apparent violation of state and local COVID-19 rules in place at the time.
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Weeks after election, questions still swirl about Westminster voting center
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Already, hospitals are struggling to keep up with the pace of new COVID-19 patients. With the surge showing no signs of slowing down, L.A. County facilities are preparing for how to allocate care in a crisis situation.
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FBI agents served search warrants on three L.A.-area local government officials in an investigation sources said focused on permits for cannabis businesses in the city of Baldwin Park.
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New coronavirus infections are surging in L.A. County and around much of the nation in daily numbers not seen since August, officials said.
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It’s not clear whether an unofficial voting site under investigation by Orange County authorities was in violation of any election laws. Some of those involved in politics in Westminster’s large Vietnamese community defended it Wednesday as a natural outgrowth of a robust political culture.