Clara Harter is a breaking news reporter at the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she covered politics and education for the L.A. Daily News. While at the Daily News, she published a series on fentanyl addiction that won a first-place investigative journalism award from the L.A. Press Club. Harter majored in political science and Middle Eastern studies at Columbia University. She loves surfing and, when not reporting, can most likely be found in the ocean.
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A former assistant pastor at an Oxnard church admitted to stealing $200,000 from the house of worship while the congregation’s founder was on his deathbed, authorities said.
The L.A. County Department of Public Health is offering its final free community blood testing event Friday to screen victims of January’s firestorm for possible exposure to lead.
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A semitruck collided with a Metrolink train in an agricultural area of Moorpark on Wednesday afternoon, killing the truck driver.
Police arrested a man suspected of opening fire at Santa Monica Place mall. The man is also a person of interest in an incident where a suspect shot at a Waymo.
As Children’s Hospital Los Angeles scales back healthcare for trans youth, Stanford Medicine has stopped performing gender-affirming surgeries on patients younger than 19.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center in Westwood Tuesday afternoon to seek emergency care for a detainee, drawing a crowd of protesters concerned about the agents’ presence.
Chandler Jones, who set records as a wide receiver at Bishop Montgomery High in Torrance and San José State University, died Sunday at age 33 in a freeway accident, authorities said.
National Guard troops that were mobilized to help respond to immigration protests in Los Angeles were then sent more than 100 miles away to protect federal agents enforcing immigration laws on marijuana farms in the Coachella Valley, according to court documents.