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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Nov. 14, 2024
A substitute teacher at Beverly Hills High says she was fired after sharing posts criticizing Trump and condemning the behavior of students at a MAGA rally.
Nov. 14, 2024
Four Los Angeles residents are accused of creating videos of a fake bear ravaging pricey automobiles to cash in on the insurance money.
Nov. 13, 2024
The school district placed the teacher on leave after a profanity-filled anti-Trump lecture he gave to his history students. Some students have pushed back.
Nov. 13, 2024
A Glendale man owed a couple $80,000, so he shot the husband, kidnapped and killed the wife, and burned the bodies in different deserts, prosecutors allege.
Nov. 13, 2024
Construction worker Heber Enoc Diaz of Pasadena was convicted of brutally slaying Chyong Jen Tsai, 76, with a hammer, a jab saw and a box cutter during a 2019 burglary.
Nov. 13, 2024
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Nov. 12, 2024
For weeks a woman complained about sounds coming from under her El Sereno home at night. Police made a terrifying discovery: a man in the crawl space.
Nov. 11, 2024
The L.A. County Registrar-Recorder’s Norwalk headquarters received a bomb threat on Saturday — the latest in a string of threats targeting election hubs across the region and country.
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