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Los Angeles County voters are concerned about a host of voter fraud issues that could disrupt the Nov. 3 general election, even though they have a high degree of confidence in local elections officials, according to a new poll funded by the nonprofit California Community Foundation. Nearly three-quarters of respondents expressed concern that false rumors…
Damage from a week’s worth of high surf and El Niño-related storms brought many warnings from officials. Beaches were closed. Homes were evacuated and red-tagged. But one alert was targeted to a specific audience: owners of electric vehicles that were submerged by the flooding. “If you notice smoke, hissing, popping or unusual heat, move away…
Southern California’s specter of ruinous wildfire is back. The first Santa Ana winds of the season are expected to bring 20- to 40-mph winds, and gusts potentially exceeding 60 mph to valleys and coastal mountain ranges through Friday afternoon. Scientists have projected that by 2100, human greenhouse gas pollution will cut back the number of…
Southern California’s unprecedented humidity fueled by El Niño conditions is giving a boost to mosquitoes and helping spread West Nile virus, experts say. West Nile virus cases in Los Angeles County are the highest they’ve been in more than a decade, records show. The spike is thanks in part to Southern California’s sweltering summer, with…
UC San Francisco’s medical school illegally used race in admissions, discriminating against white and Asian applicants in favor of Black and Latino ones, the Department of Justice alleged Tuesday. The allegations expand the Trump administration’s scrutiny of University of California admissions after similar findings against UC Berkeley’s law school this month and medical schools at…
There was no public indication that things weren’t going well at the nonprofit known as Furget Me Not Purebred Cat Rescue. For years, the Pomona-based organization showcased its work on Facebook, posting photos of new cat owners, rescue operations and the faces of cats and kittens it had saved. But that sunny image took a…
A worker opened fire at a senior living facility in South Los Angeles on Monday morning, wounding three co-workers, one of them critically, police said. The shooting occurred at the facility near West 70th Street and Denver Avenue before 11 a.m., police said at a news conference. It’s unclear what prompted the shooting, but the…
A murder suspect who led law enforcement on a violent chase across Placer County, ramming a patrol car and lighting forest fires as authorities closed in, was killed in a shootout Monday morning. The pursuit eventually led officers into the forest outside Sacramento, where Derek Spencer, 44, held them at bay by hiding and firing…
Dispatch calls reveal supermodel Cindy Crawford’s son, Presley Gerber, who died Sunday, suffered an apparent overdose while staying at a luxury outpatient rehab facility. After Santa Monica police received a call reporting a cardiac arrest and another call for an overdose, officers responded to Resolutions Living, a $7.7-million, seven-bedroom mansion that operates as a rehabilitation…