March 4, 2013, 11:49 AM
Southern California’s Mount Wilson is a lonesome, hostile peak – prone to sudden rock falls, sometimes ringed by wildfire – that nevertheless has attracted some of the greatest minds in modern science. Today, Mount Wilson is the site of a more terrestrial but no less...
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December 6, 2012, 12:05 AM
U.S. Department of Justice representatives will visit California this month as part of an ongoing investigation into whether the state's courts are violating federal laws for failing to provide interpreters in many civil and family law cases. The investigation stems from a December 2010...
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August 10, 2012, 12:05 AM
Most major California cities are failing to address the growing health care costs of government retirees, which have ballooned to more than $1 billion in some areas and soon could threaten municipalities' ability to pay other expenses, according to a recent financial analysis by a nonprofit...
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July 30, 2012, 12:05 AM
Expanding a major Los Angeles freeway in an area known for traffic-related air pollution could improve public health, according to a draft environmental impact report issued last month by the California Department of Transportation. The project, known as the I-710 Corridor Project, could...
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June 29, 2012, 12:05 AM
Vernon has failed to develop several policies and procedures to make key government reforms, a state audit reported. While the city of Vernon – plagued by a corruption scandal and mounting debt – vowed last year to implement numerous reforms, it lacks the procedures to make those...
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June 21, 2012, 12:05 AM
Gov. Jerry Brown backed away from a fight with environmentalists yesterday, abandoning a plan to exempt the $68 billion California bullet train project from environmental laws. Brown had hoped to fast-track construction of the controversial project by sidestepping key provisions of the...
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May 25, 2012, 12:48 PM
Alexander Johnson arrived at Barack Obama Global Preparatory Academy to pick up his 12-year-old after school on May 19, 2011. When his son, A.J. didn’t appear, Johnson went inside the Los Angeles middle school. What he found was devastating. A.J. and a friend had gotten into a...
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February 10, 2012, 3:20 AM
LOS ANGELES – Fifteen-year-old Juan Carlos Amezcua was just five minutes late for school and already at the corner by Theodore Roosevelt High School when a police cruiser’s siren went off last Nov. 16. The consequences of what happened next – handcuffing, allegations of...
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October 7, 2011, 12:05 AM
The way Downey resident Lauren Baumann tells it, she was putting on Christian rock concerts at a mini-golf fun park and renting a $10,000-a-month historic mansion in order to serve God. And also to pay off a $2.9 million judgment from a 1990s fraud conviction in Texas. To federal prosecutors,...
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September 13, 2011, 12:05 AM
School board officials in Los Angeles will determine today whether a deeper look into cheating is needed at one of their top-ranked charter schools, a district official said. Fred Navarro, superintendent of the Lennox School District, said officials will discuss cheating allegations at...
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July 7, 2011, 12:05 AM
Two congressional candidates are throwing down big money in western Los Angeles as they vie to succeed retired Rep. Jane Harman, one of Congress’ wealthiest Democrats, who stepped down in February to head a Washington think tank. Democrat Janice Hahn, a Los Angeles city councilwoman, and...
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February 7, 2011, 12:05 AM
The Los Angeles City Council spends the most money – about $1.7 million per seat – and pays the highest salaries – an average $178,789 – of 15 cities examined in a recent study by the Pew Charitable Trust's Philadelphia Research Initiative. Two other California city...
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June 24, 2010, 12:05 AM
A top official involved in pushing for new teacher evaluation procedures and other reforms at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was appointed Tuesday as second in command at the Los Angeles Unified School District. After discussing the appointment in closed session, the LA Board of...
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June 5, 2010, 7:58 PM
Hundreds of marijuana delivery services are circumventing bans on storefront dispensaries, bringing marijuana directly to people’s homes, offices and more unconventional locations across the state.
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May 31, 2010, 12:05 AM
The City of Los Angeles protects foothill communities from potentially devastating mudslides through a "debris basin system," according to a video recently posted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The video shows the tremendous power of the mudslides racing down the...
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