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  • Shooting wounds Mexican Mafia member, kills another man in L.A. County

    Shooting wounds Mexican Mafia member, kills another man in L.A. County

    A reputed member of the Mexican Mafia was wounded in a shooting Saturday that left a second man dead in Los Angeles County, authorities said. At 11 p.m., Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies responded to a Veterans of Foreign Wars hall on Valley View Avenue in La Mirada, where they found two men with gunshot…

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  • California atmospheric river brings record rain, major mudslide risk

    California atmospheric river brings record rain, major mudslide risk

    An atmospheric river dumping rain across Northern California and several feet of snow in the Sierra was making its way across the state Friday, bringing flooding and threatening mudslides along with it. The storm, the first major rainmaker of the season, initially strengthened into a bomb cyclone, a description of how it rapidly intensified before…

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  • Man installing Christmas lights in Escondido dies after being electrocuted

    Man installing Christmas lights in Escondido dies after being electrocuted

    A man installing Christmas lights in a tree in San Diego County was electrocuted and killed Thursday, according to authorities. The man, was working near the intersection of Idaho Avenue and Skyline Drive in Escondido when he was electrocuted by a power line, reported KNSD-TV. The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that the worker…

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  • Column: Electoral college system is a bad way to pick a president

    Column: Electoral college system is a bad way to pick a president

    SACRAMENTO —  Before this year’s presidential election slips into gloomy history, we should pause to slam our moldy, undemocratic vote-counting system called the electoral college. If Donald Trump had to win, it’s good that he prevailed in both the archaic electoral college and the national popular vote. The popular vote should always settle who is elected…

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  • California's Lake County defends slow ballot counting after election

    California’s Lake County defends slow ballot counting after election

    LAKEPORT, Calif. —  Maria Valadez would like everyone to chill out. Every election, the prickly Lake County registrar follows California’s litany of voting laws and certifies thousands of ballots by the time she is required to. And every year, people still complain. “The state gave us a deadline, we meet the deadline,” an exasperated Valadez said…

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  • A fateful night in Monterey: Pete Hegseth and allegations of sexual assault

    A fateful night in Monterey: Pete Hegseth and allegations of sexual assault

    On the afternoon of Oct. 12, 2017, a nurse at Kaiser Permanente called the Monterey Police Department to report that a patient had come in for a sexual assault exam. The woman, the nurse told police, said she had been sexually assaulted four days earlier while at a Republican women’s conference at the Hyatt Regency…

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  • LAUSD approaches pre-pandemic achievement levels, outpacing state

    LAUSD approaches pre-pandemic achievement levels, outpacing state

    The Los Angeles Unified School District showed strong gains in newly released state metrics and reached a record graduation rate, but overall academic performance fell well short of state learning goals. The latest release of state data indicated positive trends for the state’s largest school system, with improvement that outpaced the state as a whole.…

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  • Combs' lawyers say his NY home would be 'more restrictive' than jail

    Combs’ lawyers say his NY home would be ‘more restrictive’ than jail

    For a third time, lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs urged a judge Friday to grant the hip-hop mogul $50 million bail, this time saying he should be placed in home confinement in a three-bedroom New York City apartment on the Upper East Side with 24-hour surveillance. Federal prosecutors, however, said Combs violated the rules in…

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  • Filming for movie in downtown L.A. high-rise spurs 911 calls

    Filming for movie in downtown L.A. high-rise spurs 911 calls

    What appeared to be a high-rise fire near 5th and Bixel streets in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday night caught the attention of a group of young people, who quickly began recording the disaster unfolding before them to share on social media. The video was livestreamed on Citizen, a public safety mobile app, which was…

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  • Magnitude 3.8 earthquake shakes Malibu, L.A.'s Westside

    Magnitude 3.8 earthquake shakes Malibu, L.A.’s Westside

    A magnitude 3.8 earthquake brought weak shaking to Malibu and Los Angeles’ Westside Friday. The epicenter was about 4.6 miles north of Point Dume, in the mountains above Malibu’s city limits. It’s the seventh earthquake so far this year to rumble in this area. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, “weak” shaking — or Level…

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