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LOS ANGELES, CA, JUNE 25, 2025: Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman is photographed at the Hall of Justice in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 25, 2025. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

ICE ‘wrongfully detained’ L.A. County D.A.’s office employee, Hochman says

Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman said one of his employees was ‘wrongfully detained’ by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Friday, according to an internal e-mail obtained by The Times.

Los Angeles, CA - December 02: Los Angeles City Councilmember Traci Park, shown hugging a constituent, represents the Palisades and wants to waive all of the fees that are charged by city agencies to rebuild homes. The City Council were debating a plan to waive building permit fees for property owners who are looking to rebuild from the Palisades fire at Los Angeles City Hall in Los Angeles Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. Councilmember Traci Park, who represents the area, wants to waive all of the fees that are charged by city agencies to rebuild homes. But Councilmember Katy Yaroslavksy and the council's Budget Committee want to place strict limits, saying the city cannot afford to waive fees that involve retaining walls, grading permits, swimming pools and other work. Beyond that, they want to exclude owners of condominiums and townhouses entirely. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

In a win for Palisades fire victims, L.A. overhauls plan for permit relief

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Los Angeles, CA - September 01: LAPD arrive to push back demonstrators advocating for immigrant rights outside the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 1, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA. (Carlin Stiehl / Los Angeles Times)

Federal judge bars the LAPD’s use of some ‘less-lethal’ weapons at protests

IN FLIGHT - JANUARY 11: U.S. President Donald Trump takes questions from the members of the press aboard Air Force One on January 11, 2026 en route back to the White House from Palm Beach, Florida. The President spent the weekend at his private club Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Trump pardons convicted California fraudster he previously freed for different crime

The scene of the assault in Beverly Hills on Jan. 16, 2026.

Man dies after being beaten, run over in Beverly Hills; suspect arrested

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Leonard Jacoby, pioneer of legal advertising on billboards and TV, dies at 83

Los Angeles, CA - January 12: A billboard on West Pico Boulevard and Vermont Avenue informs passersby of sexual assaults reported to Uber on Monday, Jan. 12, 2026 in Los Angeles, CA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

Uber — a target of car crash lawsuits — pushes for law to limit California lawyer fees

Immigration sweep rattles L.A.’s Fashion District, deepening fears and slumping sales

Billionaire developer Rick Caruso will not run for L.A. mayor or California governor

‘Largest outbreak that we’ve seen in California.’ Death cap mushrooms linked to deaths, hospitalizations

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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 16: California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference at Friendship House Association of American Indians on January 16, 2026 in San Francisco, California. California Gov. Gavin Newsom joined San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie to announce new funding for homelessness and mental health efforts in the city of San Francisco. The governor announced more than $420 million in new state funding for San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego as part of the state's HHAP 6 funding, which goes toward helping local programs end homelessness through interim or permanent housing and supportive services. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

In San Francisco, Newsom rails against proposed billionaire tax, vows to protect homeless Californians

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday sharpened his criticism of a proposed ballot measure to tax billionaires, a measure opponents say may push tech companies and other businesses out of the state and wound California’s economy.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom talks at a news conference with workers and volunteers on Wednesday, May 4, 2022, at a Planned Parenthood office near downtown Los Angeles. Newsom faulted his own political party Wednesday for setbacks in the nation's culture wars and urged Democrats to launch a vocal “counter-offensive” to protect rights from abortion to same-sex marriage. (AP Photo/Michael R. Blood)

Newsom rejects Louisiana effort to extradite abortion doctor

Huntington Beach, CA - January 14, 2026: Huntington Beach City Attorney Michael Gates speaks to press during an event at Huntington Beach on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026 in Huntington Beach, CA. Huntington Beach City Attorney Michael Gates announced his run for California attorney general. (Kayla Bartkowski / Los Angeles Times)

Former Huntington Beach city attorney, a Newsom critic, to run for state attorney general

Los Angeles, CA - November 01: California Governor Gavin Newsom attends a Yes on Proposition 50 rally at the Los Angeles Convention Center Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA. (Eric Thayer / Los Angeles Times)

Federal court upholds California’s new congressional districts in a victory for Democrats

California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a rally to push for a redistricting measure on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Child porn concerns prompt California to launch investigation into Elon Musk’s AI firm

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Agoura Hills, CA, December 14, 2025 - The Snake, a famous stretch of the Mulholland Highway, recently reopened after seven years is flooded with bikers and car enthusiasts zipping up and down the famous roadway. Many residents living along the road are upset with the noise and traffic. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
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The daredevils are back with a vengeance on Mulholland. ‘Race car driving is like sex’

For motorcycle and car enthusiasts, riding the section of Mulholland Highway known as ‘the Snake’ can feel akin to a religious experience. Locals have a very different view.

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California created havens for gang ‘dropouts.’ It made prisons even more violent

Undated handout photos of Marcus Muench Casanova, who died while climbing Mt. Baldy on Dec. 29, 2025.
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When Devil’s Backbone Trail claimed another young Mt. Baldy adventurer, this is what the world lost

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California rolls out sweeping new laws for 2026, from cellphone limits in schools to a ban on cat declawing

Torrance, CA - December 04: A view of a hacked up blue agave plant, part of the front yard landscaping at a Torrance home. At least a handful of Torrance residents have had their front yard blue agave plants hacked up over the last month in early-morning raids. Assailants have chopped up and stolen dozens of waxy, green spikey leaves, leaving residents wondering why their plants have been targeted. Photo taken in Torrance Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
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SoCal agave owners have been hacked. What are thieves doing with those filched leaves?

Imagining a Future L.A.

An autonomous Black Hawk helicopter, part of a new Calif. wildfire fighting technology

California’s wildfire moonshot: How new technology will defeat advancing flames

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L.A. is under the gun to add housing units. The hard part? Where and how many

Harrison Ford as tough cop Rick Deckard in Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" in 1982 in Los Angeles

Hollywood takes a wrecking ball to Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California-A post card of palm trees in front of Republic Pictures, North Hollywood. (Patt Morrison Collection)
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Commentary: Prepare to say a frond farewell to Los Angeles’ palm trees

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Fast-forward 25 years: Sharing hopes and dreams for a future Los Angeles

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Is Southern California prepared to avoid a ‘Day Zero’ water crisis?

Michael Kovac on the deck of his Sycamore House in Pacific Palisades. He designed the house with sustainability in mind, and a fire suppression system in the back of the house sprayed fire retardant onto the vegetation.

Imagine fire-safe communities where residents can live and evacuate in record time

Illustrated image of Reseda area with overlayed multi-housing buildings.

L.A. is under the gun to add housing units. The hard part? Where and how many

An aerial black-and-white photo of Lakewood Park, a planned housing development

Will we ever get enough housing? The future holds promise

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A few slices of life from the future Los Angeles

Art Linfoot and Joyce Birdwell, whose Berry Creek home (shown in photo) was lost in the North Complex Fire in 2020, decided not to rebuild and moved into Joyce's condo in Irvine.
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Chabria: #Strong is a recovery scam. California’s future demands something more

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Arellano: When the going gets tough for L.A., our city rallies like no other

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ME.Dahlia/reporters.1016.7.Fowler, left(with hat), was the first reporter to arrive at the scene of LA's most famous unsolved killing, The Black Dahlia killing, on Ave., between 39th and Coliseum Streets, where the dismembered body of Elizabeth Short was found on Jan. 16, 1947. Photo Credit: RLOliver/Los Angeles Times
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An amateur codebreaker may have just solved the Black Dahlia and Zodiac killings

Iva Toguri D'Aquino, Tokyo Rose of the Japanese propaganda "Zero Hour" broadcasts which were beamed to American troops in the Pacific during the war, seems in a pensive mood as she looks through the bars of her cell in Yokohama, Japan, Oct. 28, 1945. Born in Los Angeles, 29 years ago to Japanese parents, she is awaiting trial for treason against the United States. (AP Photo)

This L.A. woman was jailed as a WWII traitor. How a pair of perjuries ensnared ‘Tokyo Rose’

Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson starts a Bible-reading marathon at Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, June 28, 1931. The contest will continue through July 1, with what is said to be the largest Bible in the world being used by contestants. (AP Photo)
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Toting a tambourine, she built L.A.’s first megachurch. Then she suddenly disappeared

MONTEREY PARK-CA-DECEMBER 9, 2013: Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca faces the media during a news conference in response to an announcement of the F.B.I. arrests of 17 sworn members of the Sheriff's Department in connetion with a federal probe into activities at county jails at the Department Headquarters in Monterey Park on Monday, December 9, 2013. (Christina House / For The Times)

A popular L.A. sheriff touted reforms in a troubled system. Then a young FBI agent showed up

Marvin Gaye, American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and musician photographed in Los Angeles.

Inside the tragedy that silenced a soul legend: Marvin Gaye’s last fight with his father

FILE - In this June 5, 1968, file photo, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy addresses campaign workers moments before being shot in Los Angeles. At his side are his wife, Ethel, and his California campaign manager, Jesse Unruh, speaker of the California Assembly. Prosecutors for the first time are not opposing the release of Sirhan Sirhan. The 77-year-old prisoner on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, faces his 16th parole hearing for fatally shooting Kennedy in 1968. (AP Photo/Dick Strobel, File)
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The assassination of RFK: An icon of hope, a hotel pantry and an ‘angry nobody’

Los Angeles, California, July 13, 1981 - HILLSIDE STRANGLER - Angelo Buono, "Hillside Strangler" suspect, smiles as he listens to motion by the deputy district attorney to dismiss murder charges against him. With him is one of his attorneys, Kathy Mader. Photo Credit: R.L. Oliver / Los Angeles Times

Homicidal cousins and the Hillside Stranglers case: A trial that nearly did not happen

Elmer Pratt enroute to afternoon session in court at Hall of Justice.

‘Deceit, dishonesty, betrayal’: The wrongful conviction that haunted Johnnie Cochran

1990-06-22 - 'Holy Terror 'Manson tunnel LAPD crime scene photo. The railroad tunnel in which Ronald Baker was found had spooky graffiti and a dark mystique, the kind of place Valley kids dared each other to walk through at night. People called it the Manson Tunnel-the cult leader and his disciples had lived nearby at the Spahn Movie Ranch-and someone had spray-painted HOLY TERROR over the entrance.
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Detectives investigating UCLA student’s murder uncovered a stunningly personal betrayal

(Original Caption) Convicted spy Christopher Boyce is led by federal marshals at Burbank airport upon his arrival from Springfield, Massachusetts, for arraignment on charges related to his escape from Lompoc federal prison in January 1980.

How a pair of Palos Verdes altar boys grew up to be Soviet spies

Boster, Mark -- - LOS ANGELES,CA.,JUNE 9, 2009: Veteran LAPD detective Stephanie Lazarus,49, appears at the Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles for her arraignment on murder charges June 9, 2009. Lazarus is charged with the 1986 murder of Sherri Rasmussen. (Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times)

It took LAPD 23 years to identify one of their own as the culprit in this fatal love triangle

Los Angeles, CA - May 29, 1986 : Richard W. Miller (center) with his defense attorney (right) watch as the jury arrives to the Little League Park location as part of the espionage retrial. The park is located at Ohio Ave, and Sepulveda Blvd. May of 1986. ( Al Seib / Los Angeles Times )

Charged with selling state secrets to the Soviets, a bumbling FBI agent had a novel defense

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California

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The dirty secret of California’s legal weed

An L.A. Times/WeedWeek investigation finds alarming levels of pesticides in cannabis products at dispensaries across the state

How we tested for pesticides

Legal Weed, Broken Promises: A Times series on the fallout of legal pot in California

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EL SEGUNDO-CA-DECEMBER 7, 2023: Magic Johnson is photographed at the Los Angeles Times in El Segundo on December 7, 2023. DO NOT PUBLISH. FOR THE POWER LIST PROJECT ONLY. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)
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The Money: A Magic billionaire, Hollywood’s political bundler, agricultural barons...

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The Civic Center: A groundbreaking mayor, a housing advocate, a giver of food...

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CALABASAS, CA - JAN 15: Kris Jenner is photographed for the LA Powerless in Calabasas, CA on January 15, 2024. (Evan Mulling / For The Times)
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