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Animals seized in cruelty cases can be stuck in shelters for months. New bill aims to change that
A bill supported by L.A.
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'Please control your children': California restaurateur charges parents when kids run wild
The owner of a restaurant in Northern California has charged parents as much as $327 for damages wrought by their unruly children.
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'Los Rugrats' cartel boss charged with narco-terrorism in Southern California
Authorities said the suspect appeared to have named his faction after the Nickelodeon animated series "Rugrats," a show about a group of tod
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Toddler suffers brain injury after daycare worker tosses him into the air, lawsuit alleges
A family is suing a fitness and hospitality center in El Segundo after their toddler allegedly suffered a severe brain injury when an employ
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Centro de detención de ICE pagará 100,000 dólares en un acuerdo histórico en California
Los inmigrantes detenidos trabajan por un dólar al día en el centro de Geo Group en el Valle de San Joaquín.
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Lopez: On Skid Row, it's been decades of frustration. Will the next mayor have a plan?
Exhausted Skid Row merchants' rep: "If something is working down here, you can't prove it by me."
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Riverside County's Volcano fire grows, briefly forcing evacuations
Three fires broke out in Southern and Central California amid warm temperatures Tuesday, triggering evacuations.
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They bring therapy to homeless Californians — anywhere they can help
When people in California talk about mental health and homelessness, it’s usually the sickest people who come to mind: Those living on the s
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West Nile is spreading faster than it has in 20 years. Here's how to keep yourself safe
Orange and Los Angeles counties are catching West Nile virus activity early in the season and urging residents to avoid getting bit.
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Therapy in a tent: The healthcare many homeless Californians need but aren’t getting
Like many people who are or have been homeless, Jessica Scott struggles with debilitating anxiety.
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Proposal would allow drivers to trade personal data for potentially lower insurance rates
AB 311 would change California insurance law by allowing drivers to opt in to being tracked through telematics, which transmits data to insu
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They’ve got milk, but many California kids can’t tolerate it. Schools can now offer alternatives
A federal law change lets schools offer nondairy beverages instead of milk, but they’re more expensive.
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How crime and the politics of crime rise and fall in California
Over two decades, political pressure forced California lawmakers to toughen criminal penalties.
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California colleges reveal their military weapons stockade after CalMatters investigation
According to state law, campus police can own military weapons to uphold safety as long as they report it to the public.
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How student journalists can report on the military weapons on your campus
The College Journalism Network at CalMatters investigated how public campuses throughout California were complying with a state law that req
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A charred body, tacos and ICE: L.A. food stand owner, employees accused in murder plot
The co-founder of the popular Tacos Rios Naomi stands and two other employees are charged with conspiring to kill a co-worker, whose burned
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Immigrant detainees in California win key workplace safety settlement
A settlement announced this week now affirms that private immigrant detention facilities are subject to California's workplace safety and he
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Chabria: UC could go back to using the SAT and ACT for admissions. Here's why that doesn't add up
UC is not Harvard, and was never meant to embody that type of self-perpetuating exclusivity disguised as a meritocracy.
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Instead of uniting the left, California's billionaire tax measure has split Democratic allies
The union leader behind California's proposed billionaire tax was in talks with Gov.
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Arellano: The Trump 'curse' at the World Cup is his latest red card against Americans
For the past 11 years, I've waited for a scandal, a slip up, a moment of clarity that would finally make President Trump's supporters realiz
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ICE detention center to pay $100K settlement in landmark California case
Immigrant detainees work for $1 a day inside a Geo Group facility in the San Joaquin Valley.
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Empresa penitenciaria privada vende dos de los centros de detención de inmigrantes de California al gobierno federal
La empresa privada de prisiones CoreCivic continuará operando dos grandes centros de detención del ICE en California después de vender las p
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Environmental justice group sues California over carbon market overhaul
The lawsuit claims that California's air regulator rushed changes to its signature cap-and-invest program without proper environmental revie
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Fans slam FIFA's cooling breaks. Why the U.S. World Cup team doctor disagrees
This year's World Cup, hosted across the U.S., Canada and Mexico, is the hottest played since the tournament began in 1930.
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Inland Empire amusement park Fiesta Village is closing after 52 years
Fiesta Village Fun Park, an amusement park in Colton, is closing.
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DHS buys two California immigrant detention centers for $1.5 billion
The purchase comes as the Department of Homeland Security has moved to scale up its capacity to detain immigrants without relying as heavily
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Heat wave bakes Los Angeles. Here's when it will be hottest
A heat wave is set to bake Los Angeles County this week, with temperatures predicted to be 10 to 15 degrees above normal.
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Metal pole pierces windshield, hits pregnant driver after falling off truck on SoCal freeway
A woman pregnant with twins is alive and her unborn children healthy after authorities say she survived a metal pole flying through her wind
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Gangsters jailed in India smuggled drugs, orchestrated crimes in California, feds charge
Federal authorities and Los Angels police said Tuesday had made arrests and filed indictments against organized crime groups whose leaders a
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SoCal businesses lose fight over gas-powered appliances
Southern California air regulators can move forward with new limits on the sale of certain gas-powered appliances, including water heaters.
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Push to shutter Oakland charter school hinges on a misguided approach to accountability
Local education officials in Oakland cherry-picked a single data point to justify closing of an important charter school, argues former gove
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Tech devices in California’s new cars create thorny political issues
Devices that record vehicle operational data for state air quality regulators could also violate privacy and be used to tax drivers by the m
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Abortion pills could come to California community college health centers
A California bill would require community colleges with health centers to provide access to medication abortion if lawmakers provide funding
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Jennifer Siebel Newsom sought to redefine the role of first spouse. Now, she faces her biggest test
Siebel Newsom faces a predicament as her husband positions himself as Trump's chief antagonist and prepares for a possible 2028 White House
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DMV could revoke thousands of California licenses due to mysterious testing 'anomalies'
Thousands of Californians got DMV letters telling them of testing irregularities.
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L.A. County rescue teams deployed to Venezuela leaned on support team at home. "We're all working together"
LA county rescue teams deployed to Venezuela leaned on support team at home.
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Prefab housing builders seek to show their stuff in L.A. fire recovery
Prefab home builders are rolling out new designs to appeal to Eaton and Palisades fire survivors.
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Woman missing for weeks found dead short walk from her desert home
A Piñon Hills woman who went missing in late May was found dead in a desert area near her home, authorities said.
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Downtown L.A. fixture PwC will move to Century City
In another blow to the struggling downtown office rental market, longtime stalwart corporate tenant PricewaterhouseCoopers has agreed to mov
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Hours of chaos, vandalism in Newport Beach: Are viral social media posts to blame?
Newport Beach's Balboa Peninsula neighborhood became a scene of chaos Saturday night after hundreds of teens and young adults showed up at t
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'Enough!': Hot dog vendor speaks out against violence after attack in downtown L.A.
Arabelia Martinez, 62, called for an end to violence against street vendors while flanked by city officials in downtown Los Angeles on Monda
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Private prison company sells two of California’s immigrant detention centers to the feds
Private prison company CoreCivic will continue operating two large ICE detention centers in California after selling the properties to the D
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Car crash shuts down Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu in both directions
Pacific Coast Highway was set to be blocked off for hours Monday afternoon after an early-morning hit-and-run crash into a pole.
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Las escuelas de California son las más segregadas del país, a pesar de los programas voluntarios de transporte escolar
Tras décadas de desegregación voluntaria, las escuelas de California se han vuelto más segregadas, no menos.
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Gunman opens fire at Mexico soccer celebration in East L.A.; 4 wounded
Four people were wounded by gunfire in East L.A.
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Steve Hilton: Can this British-born Republican be CA’s next governor?
As the Republican candidate for California governor, Steve Hilton has a steep mountain to climb.
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Who is Steve Hilton? Here’s how he has rebranded himself multiple times
Steve Hilton made the British Conservative Party more liberal and has held policy positions spanning the political spectrum.
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California schools are the nation’s most segregated, despite voluntary busing programs
After decades of voluntary desegregation, California schools have grown more segregated, not less.
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Judge rejects California tribes’ latest attempt to kill blackjack at cardrooms
California’s tribal casinos found an ally in Attorney General Rob Bonta who sought to ban blackjack at private cardrooms, but a judge ruled
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Humans, machines or nothing: Case will decide future of California court transcripts
California's Supreme Court will decide whether to allow electronic recordings of most civil court proceedings.
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New federal caps on graduate school loans send students and colleges scrambling
New federal caps sharply restrict graduate school student loans.
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Even without birthright citizenship, Supreme Court co-signs much of Trump's immigration agenda
Recent Supreme Court decisions raise significant consequences for immigrants who have made their lives in the U.S.
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When grief needs a voice: Finding comfort in California's 'wind phones'
After tragedy, a line of comfort: throughout California you can find wind phones, memorials to lost loved ones that encourage those who visi
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'Uncharted territory' as brewing El Niño, roasting oceans, heat bring risk for California, planet
Scientists are raising alarms over the planet's warming oceans, which — coupled with a strong El Niño — could increase temperatures for land
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Jackie and Shadow fled during Big Bear fireworks but returned to nest and eaglets the next day
Fireworks can frighten animals and send them scattering, but Jackie and Shadow's eaglets apparently are made of sterner stuff.
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After the Fourth, SoCal's hot weather is making a bad air-quality situation worse
It's so hot, even the fallout from the fireworks is sluggish.
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L.A. County heat advisory: When will high temperatures peak in SoCal?
The National Weather Service issued a heat advisory, as parts of Los Angeles County could experience temperatures between the 80s and low 10
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Fireworks and fights: Hundreds arrested at Fourth of July celebration in Newport Beach
Eyewitness footage shows police charging into beach crowds — which appear to be made up of mostly teens.
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L.A. sued over police shooting of dog wearing Knicks T-shirt
Attorneys for Marie Marseille filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles seeking damages for what the suit contends was un
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Woman killed, several injured in Fourth of July fireworks incidents across SoCal
Fourth of July fireworks sparked dangerous explosions and raging fires across Southern California, leaving several injured and displacing fa
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