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  • LAPD reviews scores of bomb threats a year. Did deputy mayor send one?

    LAPD reviews scores of bomb threats a year. Did deputy mayor send one?

    At Los Angeles International Airport last spring, a dispatcher received an anonymous call suggesting that a Spirit Airlines flight to Las Vegas was “going to blow up.” In April, an employee at a legal clinic received a phone call from someone threatening to bring a grenade to the office if they didn’t receive a callback…

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  • FBI agents search home of L.A. deputy mayor over City Hall bomb threat

    FBI agents search home of L.A. deputy mayor over City Hall bomb threat

    FBI agents searched the home of a Los Angeles deputy mayor as part of an investigation into a bomb threat made against City Hall, officials said Wednesday. The agents searched the home of Brian Williams, who is deputy mayor for public safety, on Tuesday while looking into a bomb threat Williams “allegedly made against City…

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  • After losing reelection, San Francisco mayor says she leaves office 'a winner'

    After losing reelection, San Francisco mayor says she leaves office ‘a winner’

    SAN FRANCISCO —  Mayor London Breed may have lost reelection, but after more than six years at the helm of one of America’s most iconic cities, she says she will leave office next month as a champion. “No matter what the results said, I’m still a winner,” Breed said in an interview this week. “The fact…

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  • St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter

    St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter says budget cuts could mean less policing, streetlights

    Frederick Melo at the Pioneer Press reports on negotiations leading up to St. Paul’s budget and tax levy deadline of December 18. Mayor Carter said Monday that holding the levy increase to no more than 5.6%, which the majority of the City Council supports, would hit city services hard, including public safety, while saving the…

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  • Mayor and LAPD chief tout double-digit drop in homicides

    Mayor and LAPD chief tout double-digit drop in homicides

    Los Angeles has so far this year recorded double-digit percentage declines in homicides, nonfatal shootings and slayings stemming from gang feuds, according to police data released Tuesday. City officials touted the numbers as proof that public safety is improving after concerns about crime motivated voters in November’s election. Mayor Karen Bass highlighted the numbers Tuesday…

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  • State Sen. Omar Fateh

    State Sen. Omar Fateh to run for Minneapolis mayor

    KSTP reports State Sen. Omar Fateh announced he is running for Minneapolis Mayor against incumbent Jacob Frey Monday morning. In a post on X, Fateh said he is running to “achieve the vibrant, loving city we know Minneapolis can be.” Stephen Neukam at Axios reports Sen. Amy Klobuchar is expected to become the number three…

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  • Longtime Camarillo Mayor Michael Morgan dies in car crash

    Longtime Camarillo Mayor Michael Morgan dies in car crash

    Six-time mayor of Camarillo and devoted community member Michael Morgan died in a car accident Tuesday, the city announced. His wife, Donna, survived the crash with severe injuries. The couple was driving to visit their children in Reno when the accident took place on a Nevada highway, according to the Ventura County Star. No more…

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  • How L.A. Mayor Bass hopes to work with Trump on homelessness

    How L.A. Mayor Bass hopes to work with Trump on homelessness

    WASHINGTON —  President-elect Donald Trump has promised to arrest thousands of homeless people sleeping on American streets and move them to large tent cities on “inexpensive land,” one of several planks of his agenda that would upend a national strategy that focuses on finding people housing on a voluntary basis. “We will use every tool, lever…

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  • L.A. mayor vowed to save shelter animals. More dogs and cats are dying

    L.A. mayor vowed to save shelter animals. More dogs and cats are dying

    Jake, a tawny 2-year-old mutt in L.A.’s West Valley shelter, wasn’t doing well. After six months at the shelter, he was running back and forth and jumping in his kennel. So shelter workers put him on the euthanasia list in September. “With the current staff we are unable to fulfill his enrichment needs and it…

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