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Emergency services prevent potential suicide jump from parking structure 4
Officers from the Santa Monica Police Department, Fire Department plus employees of Legion and Downtown Ambassadors, responded to a potential...
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Tough love plan could end California’s unemployment insurance stalemate
When the Great Recession struck California 17 years ago and hundreds of thousands of workers lost their jobs, the state’s...
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Raw milk recall in California expands after tests detect more bird flu virus
A California farm expanded a recall of raw milk sold in stores and halted production after state health and agriculture...
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Californians pay billions for power companies’ wildfire prevention efforts, are they cost-effective?
Diane Moss lost her home in the Santa Monica Mountains after power lines ignited the apocalyptic Woolsey Fire in 2018....
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Malibu submits updated school unification study
The City of Malibu has made a second crack at proving the feasibility of an educational split between the city’s...
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California shorted prisoners on money for their release, now it’s ending the practice
California prisons are no longer withholding money they are supposed to give people at the time of their release, according...
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US job openings rose last month, though hiring slowed, in mixed picture for labor market
The number of job postings in the United States rebounded in October from a 3½ year low in September, a...
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Lincoln Heights warehouse controversy presents another test of Los Angeles’ aspirations
In one of Los Angeles’ oldest neighborhoods, a tidy elementary school sits on ground it has occupied for nearly a...
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120mph pursuit of stolen car from downtown LA ends with crash in Santa Monica
A high-speed pursuit that started in downtown Los Angeles ended in Santa Monica with a crash and the subsequent arrest...
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California Democrats plan to crack down on cities that block abortion clinics
As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, California Democrats are developing new plans to strengthen the state’s abortion protections....
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