Javier Panzar is a reporter and digital editor for the Los Angeles Times. He used to cover state and regional politics as well as breaking news for the California section. He was born and raised in Oakland. His reporting has appeared in the Boston Globe, the Seattle Times, the Orange County Register and UC Berkeley’s independent student newspaper, the Daily Californian.
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Hermosa Beach police have cleared a man they arrested Thursday on suspicion of arson and arrested a new suspect in connection with a blaze that destroyed a beachfront house and damaged four others.
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A supervisor at a Los Angeles Unified School District after-school program pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges he sexually assaulted four boys at a Gardena elementary school over the last year, prosecutors said.
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A 29-year-old Irvine man was sentenced this week to 10 years in federal prison for selling narcotics on a darkweb marketplace where he was listed as a top vendor, federal prosecutors said.
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A 35-year-old man has been sentenced to 32 years to life in state prison for sexually attacking four women across the Westside in 2016, including two attacks near the beach in Santa Monica, the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office said Thursday.
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A 25-year-old West Covina man was charged with involuntary manslaughter and elder abuse in the death of a 51-year-old man with an intellectual disability who was left inside a car last summer, according to court records.
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Authorities are investigating whether a 23-year-old man involved in a violent head-on crash that killed another driver had intentionally sped onto the 73 Freeway in Newport Beach going the wrong way, California Highway Patrol officials said Thursday.
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A 65-year-old Corona del Mar woman was killed Wednesday morning after a Mercedes speeding the wrong way on the 73 Freeway at more than 100 mph crashed head-on into her BMW in Newport Beach, authorities said.
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Butte County officials have released the names of two additional victims from last year’s deadly Camp fire — a 68-year-old grandmother and her adult granddaughter — bringing the number of those identified as having died in the massive blaze to 77.
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A 30-year-old Sylmar man who was caught on video punching two women in the face at a downtown Los Angeles hot dog stand has pleaded guilty to two counts of battery.