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Tracking your health with a device? Here’s where the data could go
Read More: Tracking your health with a device? Here’s where the data could goEvery day millions of people share more intimate information with their accessories than they do with their spouse. Wearable technology — smartwatches, smart rings, fitness trackers and the like — monitors body-centric data such as your heart rate, steps taken and calories burned, and may record where you go along the way. Like Santa Claus,…
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County audit finds lax accounting at L.A. homeless authority
Read More: County audit finds lax accounting at L.A. homeless authorityAn audit of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority has found that lax accounting procedures resulted in the failure to reclaim millions of dollars in cash advances to contractors and to pay other contractors on time, even when funds were available. LAHSA, a city-county joint powers agency, failed to establish formal agreements on how and…
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Why did someone add a giant meth pipe to MacArthur Park’s Prometheus statue?
Read More: Why did someone add a giant meth pipe to MacArthur Park’s Prometheus statue?A piece of guerrilla art appeared at Los Angeles’ MacArthur Park this week, underlining the park’s reputation as a center of drugs, addiction and despair. Prometheus is known in Greek mythology for rebelliously taking fire from the gods to give to humans, but at his statue near the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Alvarado Street…
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Opinion: New California rules trade short-term climate gain for long-term health and safety
Read More: Opinion: New California rules trade short-term climate gain for long-term health and safetyAs long-serving members of the California Air Resources Board, we have prioritized environmental justice and community health, championing efforts to combat climate change. However, we believe state policies must thoughtfully address the consequences for communities least able to bear the associated costs. This concern applies to CARB’s newly adopted amendments to accelerate the Low Carbon…
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Fire burned a quarter of Ventura’s avocados. Can this farmer rebuild?
Read More: Fire burned a quarter of Ventura’s avocados. Can this farmer rebuild?SOMIS — Thousands of Hass avocados littered the soil in Sergio Acevedo’s orchard Saturday in this community northeast of Camarillo. The Mountain fire had scorched some of the fruit, leaving it shriveled or in ashes. But the ferocious winds that followed the blaze ripped through the area and tore more than half of the remaining…
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Shoplifter injured by police dog gets a nearly $1-million settlement
Read More: Shoplifter injured by police dog gets a nearly $1-million settlementA woman who shoplifted thousands of dollars in cosmetics has won a nearly $1-million settlement from a Northern California city after a police dog bit and tore at her scalp while police tried to take her into custody. In a statement, Timothy Herbert, the chief of police in the city of Brentwood in eastern Contra…
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Laura Richardson wins Senate District 35, defeating Michelle Chambers
Read More: Laura Richardson wins Senate District 35, defeating Michelle ChambersLaura Richardson emerged the victor of the competitive, costly and feisty election to win a South Los Angeles seat in the state Senate — completing her political comeback more than 10 years after a tumultuous tenure in the House of Representatives. Richardson narrowly won the race against Michelle Chambers, a community justice advocate who faced…
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Feds outline options for the shrinking Colorado River
Read More: Feds outline options for the shrinking Colorado RiverThe Biden administration has announced a range of options for new rules to address chronic water shortages and low reservoir levels on the Colorado River, a vital water source for seven Western states that has dwindled during more than two decades of drought compounded by climate change. The Interior Department released four alternatives for new…
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DNA shows man who found girl’s body in 1979 was actually her killer
Read More: DNA shows man who found girl’s body in 1979 was actually her killerLewis Randy Williamson found the girl’s body off of Highway 243. Esther Gonzalez, 17 at the time, had been raped, killed and dumped in a snowbank on the side of the highway. Williamson called the Riverside County sheriff on Feb. 9, 1979, and reported his discovery. Investigators noted at the time that he was argumentative.…
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California’s rainy season kicks off with monster storm
Read More: California’s rainy season kicks off with monster stormThe first major atmospheric river storm to hit the West Coast this season is kicking off the rainy season with a bang, as the system rapidly strengthened — to the tune of a bomb cyclone — before pummeling Northern California and southern Oregon with dangerous winds and heavy rains that could cause disruptions for several…
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Blake Lively accuses director, co-star of “It Ends with Us” of sexual harassment, smear campaign
Actress Blake Lively accused “It Ends With Us” director and co-star Justin Baldoni of sexually harassing her and seeking to smear her reputation after she spoke out about a “hostile work environment” that nearly derailed the film. In a legal complaint filed this week, Lively alleges she raised concerns about inappropriate behavior by Baldoni, who…
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Sacramento deputies arrest man on suspicion of beheading baby son
A Sacramento County father has been arrested on suspicion of beheading his 1-year-old son, sheriff’s officials said. Andrey Demskiy, 28, was arrested and booked Friday on felony charges of murder, assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury, and corporal injury on a spouse in connection with the child’s death, according to…
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