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Search your stash: 538 cannabis pesticide tests show what’s in your weed
Read More: Search your stash: 538 cannabis pesticide tests show what’s in your weedCalifornia’s testing requirements for cannabis products contain major gaps. To understand what’s being missed and what consumers are exposed to, the Los Angeles Times bought more than 150 products from licensed stores, as well as from tobacco shops and illicit vendors, and had them tested at three state-licensed labs, Anresco Laboratories, SC Labs and Infinite…
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Group defends conclusions after error found in black plastic utensil study
Read More: Group defends conclusions after error found in black plastic utensil studyA recent study that recommended toxic chemicals in black plastic products be immediately thrown away included a math error that significantly overstated the risks of contamination, but its authors are standing by their conclusions and warn against using such products. Published in the peer-reviewed journal Chemosphere, experts from the nonprofit Toxic-Free Future said they detected…
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California squirrels are hunting and eating voles, UC Davis study says
Read More: California squirrels are hunting and eating voles, UC Davis study saysA UC Davis study showed a nutty novel behavior in California squirrels: They’re hunting like carnivores, taking down and then consuming other, smaller rodents. As part of an ongoing 12-year study of California ground squirrels at Briones Regional Park in Contra Costa County, researchers last summer watched as squirrels began to chase — and eat…
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Girardi’s sentencing delayed; judge weighs prison or medical facility
Read More: Girardi’s sentencing delayed; judge weighs prison or medical facilityTom Girardi, the once legendary Los Angeles trial lawyer, was scheduled to be sentenced Friday after a federal jury convicted him of wire fraud. But a judge on Wednesday canceled the proceeding as defense attorneys and prosecutors argued over whether Girardi, 85, should undergo additional medical testing and be sent to a medical facility, not…
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On Big Bear’s slopes, a new lift opens. Is a link between resorts next?
Read More: On Big Bear’s slopes, a new lift opens. Is a link between resorts next?Snow has been slow to arrive in Big Bear this year, but the long-term forecast calls for big changes. Bear Mountain resort in Big Bear is adding its first new chair lift in 30 years, a six-seat, high-speed lift that will carry its first customers Thursday. The new Midway lift (also known as Chair 5)…
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Cannabis conundrum: Legal isn’t always clean, nor illicit dirty
Read More: Cannabis conundrum: Legal isn’t always clean, nor illicit dirtyCalifornia cannabis regulators and industry defenders argue that despite the proliferation of pesticides found in legal weed, licensed products are still safer and purer than those sold on the underground market. That isn’t always true, according to an analysis of tests conducted by The Times. Of 16 cannabis products bought from unlicensed sellers or tobacco…
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LAUSD principals muscle up by joining the Teamsters
Read More: LAUSD principals muscle up by joining the TeamstersLos Angeles Unified school principals — saying their workload is too heavy and the pressure to raise student achievement, manage complex budgets and keep campuses safe is too intense — have voted to join the Teamsters union in a rebuke to the leadership of Supt. Alberto Carvalho and the Board of Education. In an election…
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Women’s prisons are rife with trauma. Can California set a new course at Chowchilla?
Read More: Women’s prisons are rife with trauma. Can California set a new course at Chowchilla?CHOWCHILLA, Calif. — Gazing across the crowd of women, fresh from county jail in their orange prison jumpsuits, Lena Coleman wishes she could save them all. And it’s her job to try. In July, after 20 years in prison for attempted murder and a gun enhancement, Coleman, 47, became one of three dozen prisoners at the…
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After 29 years in prison, a teenage murderer gets a new start in life from a stranger
Read More: After 29 years in prison, a teenage murderer gets a new start in life from a strangerNancy Adams grew comfortable sharing her Compton townhome during the COVID-19 pandemic when she rented spare bedrooms to traveling nurses. Still, it was a long leap of faith to open her home to her current house guest — a paroled murderer. Adams, 72, had retired from a career in banking but still relishes her backup…
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Column: ‘I can’t deal with life sober’: Response to the MacArthur Park drug epidemic just isn’t enough
Read More: Column: ‘I can’t deal with life sober’: Response to the MacArthur Park drug epidemic just isn’t enoughHe was bent at the waist, wobbly and shoeless on grimy pavement at the end of an alley where fires smolder, drug users gather day and night, and death lurks. Slowly, he made his way across the parking lot behind the Yoshinoya restaurant at Wilshire Boulevard and Alvarado Street. It was not a normal gait,…
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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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