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A fast-moving fire has scorched more than 250 acres of brush today near the Golden State (5) Freeway north of Santa Clarita.
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As firefighters continued battling a 3,500-acre brush fire in Kern County, air quality officials today issued a smoke advisory for L.A. County areas.
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The Los Angeles Unified School District board will decide today whether to continue the Breakfast in the Classroom program.
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Posted Turned Off Digital Billboards Cannot Be Converted Into 'Regular' Signs, says Court Order
in Raw FeedAn update in our ongoing coverage of billboard regulation in L.A. -
South Korean President Park Geun-hye will visit Korean business leaders as she continues a five-day unity-building visit to the United States.
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The switching yards and tracks would be about four miles from the Port of Los Angeles, shortening trips trucks currently make to a rail yard farther inland.
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The council, which represents more than 14,000 local Scouts, is calling for a policy that would include gay Scout leaders as well as gay Scouts.
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Civil rights groups sued the Los Angeles Police Department and the L.A. County Sheriff's Department today over both agencies' alleged failure to produce records related to the use of automatic license plate readers.
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About seven-tenths of an inch of rain fell in downtown Los Angeles overnight and today, helping give firefighters a break but doing little to buoy the season rainfall total, which remains less than half of normal.
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Backers of an initiative to impose a 9.5 percent tax on oil and natural gas extracted in California, primarily to increase funding for education, received permission last week to begin gathering signatures.
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Former students and colleagues today paid their final respects and hailed the career of former LAUSD teacher Sal Castro, who joined his students in Eastside school walkouts in 1968 to protest inequities in educational opportunities for Latinos.
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The educator and activist who played a major role in the East L.A. blowouts died peacefully earlier this month.
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The average delay Sunday night in Southern California was three hours.
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Photo: Rumjaku/Flickr/Creative Commons License [Update, 8:08 p.m.: The fire was 85 percent contained. as of late this afternoon. All evacuations have been lifted.] A brushfire in the canyons and mountainsides above Monrovia has blackened about 125 acres and was 55...
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Firefighting aircraft were called in to protect homes in Monrovia today, as a brushfire covering about 150 acres sent a huge cloud skyward.
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Photo: annzstream/Flickr/Creative Commons License Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today announced $5 million in federal funds that could jump start the development of an earthquake early warning system in Southern California A fully operational system is still a few years...
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Posted Early Tally Shows Newcomer and Former 'Gangster Mayor' Heading to Runoff in Compton
in Raw FeedInitial results indicate incumbent mayor Eric Perrodin was ousted in Compton's election yesterday. -
L.A. Department of Water and Power officials have proposed ending a costly, decade-old practice of dumping drinkable water into a dry lake bed in Owens Valley that would otherwise be stricken with dust storms.
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The former two-lane road for horses is now visited by hundreds of thousands of cars every year.
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Officers with bomb-sniffing dogs will patrol airports today and law enforcement agencies will beef up personnel at places where people assemble in large numbers.
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Southland law enforcement officials were on heightened alert today as they monitored the investigation into bombings at the finish line of the Boston Marathon that killed two people and injured nearly two dozen more.
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Note to procrastinators: Today is the deadline to file your taxes, so a handful of local post offices will be staying open late to ensure you can get them in the mail.
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Backers of an initiative to increase oversight of the timber industry received permission Friday from Secretary of State Debra Bowen to begin gathering signatures.
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Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, an Orange County Republican, sponsored legislation today that would stop authorities from prosecuting federal laws against marijuana use in states that have decriminalized the drug.
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First-quarter entertainment production in the Los Angeles area grew 17.8 percent, thanks largely to television production, which had its strongest showing since 2007, figures from FilmLA showed today.
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In new court filings, attorneys argue that Measure B puts an "intolerable burden" on the right to free expression and is thus unconstitutional.
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Posted State of the City: Villaraigosa Disheartened by Mayoral Candidates' Education Vision
in Ballot BriefHe admonished what he perceives as timidity on the part of Councilman Eric Garcetti and Controller Wendy Greuel, the two mayoral candidates in the May 21 election. -
A popular local store is accused of intentionally mislabeling food products.
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A proposed bill in Sacramento would mandate water quality testing and an independent study to address health and safety issues raised by opponents of fracking.
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As part of distracted driving month, which starts today, police across Southern California will be ticketing for texting drivers, those holding a cellphone to their head or drivers whose attention wanders for any reason.
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A fast-moving fire has scorched more than 250 acres of brush today near the Golden State (5) Freeway north of Santa Clarita.
-
As firefighters continued battling a 3,500-acre brush fire in Kern County, air quality officials today issued a smoke advisory for L.A. County areas.
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The Los Angeles Unified School District board will decide today whether to continue the Breakfast in the Classroom program.
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Posted Turned Off Digital Billboards Cannot Be Converted Into 'Regular' Signs, says Court Order
in Raw FeedAn update in our ongoing coverage of billboard regulation in L.A. -
South Korean President Park Geun-hye will visit Korean business leaders as she continues a five-day unity-building visit to the United States.
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The switching yards and tracks would be about four miles from the Port of Los Angeles, shortening trips trucks currently make to a rail yard farther inland.
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The council, which represents more than 14,000 local Scouts, is calling for a policy that would include gay Scout leaders as well as gay Scouts.
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Civil rights groups sued the Los Angeles Police Department and the L.A. County Sheriff's Department today over both agencies' alleged failure to produce records related to the use of automatic license plate readers.
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About seven-tenths of an inch of rain fell in downtown Los Angeles overnight and today, helping give firefighters a break but doing little to buoy the season rainfall total, which remains less than half of normal.
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Backers of an initiative to impose a 9.5 percent tax on oil and natural gas extracted in California, primarily to increase funding for education, received permission last week to begin gathering signatures.
