Los Angeles County has agreed to pay Vanessa Bryant and three of her daughters nearly $30 million to settle a lawsuit and potential future claims over the sharing of graphic photos taken by first responders at the helicopter crash that killed Bryant’s husband, basketball star Kobe Bryant, and one of their daughters, according to a
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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors agreed today to end the county’s local emergency declarations due to COVID-19 at the end of March, while warning that the move doesn’t mean the virus no longer poses a threat. “Yes, COVID-19 is still with us,” Supervisor Hilda Solis said. “No, we don’t want to abandon those
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San Bernardino County declared a local emergency on Monday as it seeks state and federal assistance following snowstorms over the weekend. Residents in the county’s mountain communities are trapped at home or unable to get back home due to several feet of snow that fell during the storm over the weekend, county officials said. Updated
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Watch the Live Nest Camera Below (Courtesy of the Friends of Big Bear Valley): BIG BEAR LAKE, Calif. (AP) — Two bald eagle eggs laid last month in a Southern California nest watched by a web cam are unlikely to hatch, experts said Monday. Mother eagle Jackie delivered the first egg Jan. 11 and the
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Attorney General Rob Bonta announced that a civil rights investigation is being opened into Riverside County Sheriff’s Department (RSO). The investigation will determine if the agency engaged in a pattern of unconstitutional policing. “All Californians deserve fairness and respect from the institutions that serve them,” Bonta said. “When some communities don’t see or feel they
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By ADAM BEAM SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Some California lawmakers want to eventually ban all tobacco sales in the nation’s most populous state, filing legislation to make it illegal to sell cigarettes and other products to anyone born after Jan. 1, 2007. If signed into law, it would mean by 2073 people wanting to buy
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A man accused of gunning down Los Angeles Catholic Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell at his home in Hacienda Heights was charged today with murder. Carlos Medina, 61, was arrested Monday in connection with the Saturday shooting of the 69-year-old bishop. Medina is the husband of O’Connell’s housekeeper, and he also performed handyman work at the
Continue Reading The husband of a housekeeper who worked for Archdiocese of Los Angeles Catholic Auxiliary Bishop David O’Connell was arrested in connection with the bishop’s shooting death at his home in Hacienda Heights. Although the motive for the crime remained uncertain, Luna said neighbors told investigators that Medina had been heard making comments about O’Connell owing
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By SOPHIE AUSTIN and GABE STERN Associated Press/Report for America SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Lawmakers in Nevada and California are advancing legislation to remove “involuntary servitude” from their states’ constitutions, a move that follows four states’ bans on forced labor that passed in ballot measures last fall. The goal of these proposals is to remove
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By ADAM BEAM SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Weeks after powerful storms dumped 32 trillion gallons of rain and snow on California, state officials and environmental groups in the drought-ravaged state are grappling with what to do with all of that water. State rules say when it rains and snows a lot in California, much of
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A passenger rail company and two California state departments have agreed to build three wildlife overcrossings along the route of a planned high-speed rail line that would connect Las Vegas and Southern California, the parties said Wednesday. The agreement was announced in a joint statement by Brightline West and California’s Department of Transportation
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A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy has been charged with murder and other counts stemming from a high-speed, off-duty crash in South Gate that left a 12-year-old boy dead, Los Angeles County DistrictAttorney George Gascón announced on Wednesday. Ricardo Castro, 28, is set to be arraigned March 23 on one count each of murder, vehicular
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A 24-year-old man was found guilty of his role in the killings of two men in Banning, as well as the attempted murders of seven other people in three separate shooting incidents in 2017. Samuel Vasquez was found guilty on all counts and allegations by a Riverside County jury on Jan. 25. Vasquez was involved
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By SOPHIE AUSTIN SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California, a U.S. trendsetter for progressive policies and a state where the current governor once made news issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in San Francisco before it was legal, will attempt to enshrine marriage equality in the state constitution. The effort comes 15 years after a voter-approved
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein announced Tuesday that she will not seek reelection in 2024, signaling the end of a groundbreaking political career spanning six decades in which she shattered gender barriers and left a mark on political battles over reproductive rights, gun control and environmental protection. Feinstein, first elected in 1992, said in
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — A tiny California mouse now has a big title after winning a Guinness World record for longevity. A Pacific pocket mouse named Pat — after “Star Trek” actor Patrick Stewart — received the Guinness approval Wednesday as the oldest living mouse in human care at the ripe age of 9 years
Continue Reading By STEFANIE DAZIO LOS ANGELES (AP) — California voters could decide whether to reinstate voting rights to people in prison on felony convictions under a newly proposed constitutional amendment. It would be a major expansion of suffrage for incarcerated people if passed. California would join Maine and Vermont, as well as the District of Columbia,
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California won’t make children get the coronavirus vaccine to attend schools, state public health officials said Friday, reversing a state policy first announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2021. The nation’s most populous state plans to formally end its coronavirus emergency order on Feb. 28, ending some of Newsom’s authority to quickly alter
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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — A man walked into a Southern California police station, left a human jawbone and other items and then left, authorities said. The incident occurred Thursday in the city of San Bernardino, about 60 miles (96 kilometers) east of Los Angeles. The unidentified man left what appeared to be animal remains
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to limit where people can carry concealed guns after multiple mass shootings left dozens dead across the state in January, calling for more restrictions in a state that already has some of the nation’s toughest gun laws. He endorsed legislation Wednesday that would ban people from carrying concealed
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