Tagger-ravaged LA skyscraper spurs City Council strategy
Members voted 14-0 to instruct city departments to begin an abatement process to secure the site and restore the sidewalks should the property owners fail to respond by Feb. 17.
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Fentanyl kills Downey teen girl; drug dealer must spend nearly 16 years in prison, pay funeral costs
The Downey man who sold her the fentanyl-laced pills was sentenced Friday. In addition to federal prison time, he was ordered to pay $6,934 toward the 17-year-old girl's burial.
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Expert: Crash that killed two boys in Westlake Village in 2020 was caused by speed
Deputy District Attorney Ryan Gould told jurors that Rebecca Grossman was “flooring it” to get herself up to 81 miles per hour on a 45-mile-per-hour street.
New USC public policy institute in LA and D.C. launches with $59M gift
The university announced the new institute focusing on public policy issues to be anchored in Los Angeles and at the university's new Capital Campus in Washington, D.C.
LA and OC both drop on Milken Institute’s Best-Performing Cities Index
Among the criteria are job creation, wage growth and the output of the high-tech sector, along with housing affordability, community resilience, broadband access and income inequality.
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Former Anaheim elementary school teacher sentenced to prison for possessing child pornography
Richard O'Connor, 45, of Anaheim, pleaded guilty to a count of possession of child pornography. His attorney said O'Connor was "cleared" of any wrongdoing with students.
Fowler Museum at UCLA returns cultural artifacts to Ghana taken by British forces in 1800s
The returned objects include gold jewelry, an elephant tail whisk and an ornamental chair originally taken from the Asante Kingdom by British forces during a 19th-century conflict.
Man who stowed away on Denmark-to-LA flight gets 93 days and a bill
He passed through the boarding gate undetected, but during the flight the cabin crew noticed he moved between multiple unassigned seats.
Emergency declared as Southern California storm is called potentially catastrophic and life-threatening
Classes will be held remotely on Monday for several Cal State campuses.
Coast Guard searching for sailor, boat that went from Long Beach to Hawaii
The last contact with Noel Rubio occurred on Dec. 28, when he used a cell phone to call a friend from an area south of Catalina Island, the Coast Guard...