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Magnitude 3.4 earthquake rattles Fontana

A magnitude 3.4 earthquake hit the Fontana area on Saturday.
November 16, 2024. Fountain and Highland Avenue in Hollywood, CA, USA. This is a fire that I was told started at Auto Zone at Fountain and Highland Avenue in Hollywood on the evening on Nov.16, 2024, shortly before sundown.

Fire rips through Hollywood auto parts store

Undated handout photo from attorney Aaron Spolin.

Westside lawyer who represented hundreds of inmates hit with new state bar charges

Health workers are photographed during mpox vaccination at the General hospital, in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

First U.S. case of mpox variant reported in San Mateo County

ORANGE COUNTY-Nov. 16, 2024-After nearly two months of relearning how to use his arms and legs, the Orange County Fire firefighter Andrew Brown returned home. Brown was one of eight OCFA Hand Crew members hospitalized on Sept. 19 after their firetruck overturned while they were on their way home from battling the Airport Fire. "I thought I was gonna die in that ambulance," said Brown. (KTLA)

O.C. firefighter who feared he was paralyzed in freeway crash walks out of rehab

An investigation is underway after three people were shot to death in the 44500 block of North Tabler Avenue in Lancaster.

Three shot dead, home set afire in Antelope Valley

Ceremony welcoming the Team USA Olympic athletes on North Portico at the White House in Washington, Friday, April 27, 2018.

Trump, the 2028 Olympics and what it all means for L.A.

Los Angeles, CA - May 12: Photos of murder suspects Daries Stanford, left, Dontae Williams, center, and Dejean Thompkins are displayed as Capt. Jonathan Tippet, not pictured, who leads the Los Angeles Police Dept. Robbery-Homicide Division, speaks during a press conference to announce that Los Angeles police detectives took several suspects into custody in connection with a triple slaying outside a Benedict Canyon home earlier this year in LAPD in Los Angeles Friday, May 12, 2023. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Assassins in L.A. killed on a budget, police say

Man arrested in connection with suspicious bag that prompted shutdown of Torrance courthouse

California regulators propose plan that could close Aliso Canyon. Or is it just ‘kicking the can’?

Crypto ‘godfather’ of Bel-Air: Probe widens into L.A. deputies’ alleged links to mogul

California Politics

FILE - State Senator Marie Alvarado-Gil, D-Jackson, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, July 10, 2023. Alvarado-Gil announced Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, that she is switching to the Republican Party. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli,File)

California lawmaker accused of sexual harassment by former staffer countersues

California Sen. Marie Alvarado Gil (R-Jackson) countersues her former chief of staff, alleging he told her he was responsible for the death and disappearance of Chandra Levy.
Los Angeles, CA - November 14: Jim McDonnell is sworn in as the 59th chief of the Los Angeles Police Department on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

New LAPD chief says people aren’t calling the police enough — and that needs to change

LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 5, 2024 - - Ysabel Jurado, running for Los Angeles City Council District 14, greets a supporters when she arrives at her Election Night Party at Block Party Highland Park on November 5, 2024. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

Arellano: Ysabel Jurado vanquished Kevin de León. Will winning change her?

Credit LEFT: Courtesy Will Rollins for Congress; RIGHT: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call

Republican Rep. Ken Calvert reelected in Riverside County, beating Democratic challenger Will Rollins

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally at Bojangles Coliseum, in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

California Gov. Kamala Harris? New poll finds she’d have a clear advantage

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Los Angeles, CA - May 12: Photos of murder suspects Daries Stanford, left, Dontae Williams, center, and Dejean Thompkins are displayed as Capt. Jonathan Tippet, not pictured, who leads the Los Angeles Police Dept. Robbery-Homicide Division, speaks during a press conference to announce that Los Angeles police detectives took several suspects into custody in connection with a triple slaying outside a Benedict Canyon home earlier this year in LAPD in Los Angeles Friday, May 12, 2023. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
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Spirit Air, cramped hotels, In-N-Out: Police say Chicago hit men killed in L.A. on a budget

The alleged assassins behind several recent murder-for-hire cases in Los Angeles were sloppy, authorities say, leaving behind a trail of evidence that links the killings to Chicago gang disputes.
portion of an autopsy report indicating homicide with text: "Battered child syndrome, encased in cement"
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A child’s murderer could be freed. Does anyone in L.A. care that there was a second dead child?

REDONDO BEACH, CA - OCTOBER 11, 2024 - - Lila Omura, right, Redondo Beach's housing navigator, speaks to Billy Schmitt, 44, about finding him a place to live in Lilenthal Park in Redondo Beach on October 11, 2024. Omura was able to find Schmitt a place to live a week later. Omura plays a key role in getting homeless people off the city's streets and into housing quickly. She has helped the city achieve what's called functional zero homelessness-more people leave homelessness than become homeless and no one stays on the street more than 90 days. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)
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How Redondo Beach brought its homeless numbers to ‘functionally zero’

LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 28, 2024 - - L.A. County District Attorney George Gascon spends a moment with his re-election campaign staff before a rally at the SEIU 2015 headquarters in Los Angeles on September 28, 2024. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)
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How L.A.’s progressive ‘godfather’ wound up struggling to keep his job as D.A.

ME.Dahlia/reporters.1016.7.Fowler, left(with hat), was the first reporter to arrive at the scene of LA's most famous unsolved killing, The Black Dahlia killing, on Ave., between 39th and Coliseum Streets, where the dismembered body of Elizabeth Short was found on Jan. 16, 1947. Photo Credit: RLOliver/Los Angeles Times
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The Black Dahlia mystery: Wild theories, enduring myths and a long-overlooked suspect

Crimes of The Times

The Manson follower who tried to assassinate a president — and the man who stopped her

John and Christina DeLorean leaving Federal Court. (Los Angeles Times)

John DeLorean built the ‘car of the future.’ Then came the briefcase full of cocaine

Jurors of the McMartin case visit the McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach, California, April 19, 1989, that had been restored to the way it looked at the time of alleged molestations that caused the school closure. Judge William Pounders talks to the jurors answering questions through the walkthrough. Photo Credit: Lacy Atkins / Los Angeles Times

Wild claims of mass child molestation rocked an L.A. beach town. Truth was the first casualty

(Original Caption) LOS ANGELES, CA: Defense attornies for Charles Manson and members of his group, Ronald Hughes (L) and Paul Fitzgerald, comment to newsmen here on a remark made by President Nixon in Denver, August 3. The president described Manson as "guilty, directly or indirectly, of eight murders without reason." Manson's defense attornies submitted a motion for a mistrial in the case on the basis that the president's remarks prejudiced the case.

He was Leslie Van Houten’s ‘hippie lawyer.’ Then, he defied Manson

Oct. 1, 1910: A panorama of the ruins of the Los Angeles Times building after the bombing. Print from the former Los Angeles Times History Center.

Two brothers and 16 sticks of dynamite: The bombing of the L.A. Times

The site where helicopter crashed during filming of "Twilight Zone" killing Victor Morrow and two child actors, 6 others were injured.
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Cameras were rolling when a chopper killed an actor and two kids. Was A-list director to blame?

Paul Morantz at press conference following rattlesnake attack in 1978.

A cult targeted a crusading L.A. lawyer. The weapon: a rattlesnake

William Leasure

L.A.’s dirtiest cop: A mild-mannered traffic officer who moonlighted as a hit man

Los Angeles- LAPD officials escort Robert Bardo into the rear entranceof Parker Center August 10, 1989.

A young actress, an obsessed stalker and a Hollywood murder that changed America

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California

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The dirty secret of California’s legal weed

An L.A. Times/WeedWeek investigation finds alarming levels of pesticides in cannabis products at dispensaries across the state

How we tested for pesticides

Legal Weed, Broken Promises: A Times series on the fallout of legal pot in California

L.A. Influential

Ava Duvernay
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The Creators: A Hollywood trailblazer, a gaming visionary, a horror genius...

Selena Gomez
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The Connectors: A story huntress, a new kind of cop, a food tastemaker...

EL SEGUNDO-CA-DECEMBER 7, 2023: Magic Johnson is photographed at the Los Angeles Times in El Segundo on December 7, 2023. DO NOT PUBLISH. FOR THE POWER LIST PROJECT ONLY. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)
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The Money: A Magic billionaire, Hollywood’s political bundler, agricultural barons...

Odelia Romero
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The Civic Center: A groundbreaking mayor, a housing advocate, a giver of food...

Palmer Luckey
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The Disruptors: The Mattel miracle maker, the modern Babe Ruth, the street vendor avenger...

CALABASAS, CA - JAN 15: Kris Jenner is photographed for the LA Powerless in Calabasas, CA on January 15, 2024. (Evan Mulling / For The Times)
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The Establishment: Mother of Kardashians, the nation’s vice president, a live music overlord...

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Queer super heroes rise up through the clouds

Our Queerest Century: A series on LGBTQ+ people’s indelible contributions

Our Queerest Century

a pair of hands with a rainbow manicure pull back a curtain to reveal a group of queer people

Queer people have shaped America. Why celebrating that fact protects kids

A portrait of LGBTQAI+ activist Ernestine Eckstein

America is again stuck in darkness. Queer people of color have always known the way out

a portrait of Ramon Novarro in a broken frame on the floor with a postcard of Hollywood and a celebrity magazine

We’ve been telling the wrong story about queer people in Hollywood

A figure stands facing the facade of a large brightly colored church

‘I don’t have to be caged for your happiness’: Why I find hope in today’s queer youth

A hand reaching for an outstretched hand emerging from a cloud of flowers.

We must remember the heroes of the AIDS epidemic, not just the trauma

Los Angeles, CA - April 04: Dayanna Gamez (She/They), Mark Chavez (He/They), Iziaih Choquette (They/ Them) and Emmi Gonzalez-Soto (She/They) pose for a portrait at the L.A. LGBT Center on Thursday, April 4, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

These young queer people in California share their vision for the future, in their own words

"Darkroom Mirror _2070386," 2017, 24 x 32 inches

Queer photographers’ most radical act? Turning the lens on themselves

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Our Queerest Century: A curated timeline

SAN FRANCISCO CA APRIL 18, 2024 - Nonbinary queer activists Elio Garcia (R) and Evan Johnson (L) stand for a photo at Delores Park in San Francisco, California on April 18, 2024. (Josh Edelson / For The Times)

How have LGBTQ+ people had a positive influence in your life? We want to hear from you

LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 05: Eliza, a junior at University of California, Berkeley, is photographed with a pride flag from Gender Equity on campus, at the beach near Los Angeles, CA, Friday, March 5, 2021. Eliza, who is out as gay while at school, has not come out at home and has chosen to have her identity obscured. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Americans deeply divided on issues involving queer children, poll shows

LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 05: Eliza, a junior at University of California, Berkeley, is photographed with a pride flag from Gender Equity on campus, at the beach near Los Angeles, CA, Friday, March 5, 2021. Eliza, who is out as gay while at school, has not come out at home and has chosen to have her identity obscured. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Americans deeply divided on issues involving queer children, poll shows

St. Paul, Minnesota. State capitol. Transgender Day of Visibility Rally. Activists and community members celebrate the triumphs and struggles of transgender individuals. (Photo by: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Religion and politics create the sharpest divides over LGBTQ+ Americans, poll shows

A demonstrator waves the intersex-inclusive Pride flag during the We The People March on July 2, 2023 in Los Angeles.

The U.S. has caught up to California on views of LGBTQ+ rights, poll shows

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