The two top candidates vying for an open seat on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors emerged from their primary election contest having spent a combined $2.1 million reaching out to voters.
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Los Angeles County supervisors approved a series of settlements totaling more than $3.3 million this week, putting to rest three medical negligence cases and one police misconduct claim.
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An 18-year-old firefighter with the National Park Service was killed while clearing trees at the Eagle Fire in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest in Northern California,
U.S. Forest Service officials said today.
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Several hundred police police officers, San Fernando Valley residents and dignitaries gathered this morning at West Valley Park in Reseda to rename the children’s play area in honor slain
SWAT Officer Randal
D. Simmons, who was killed in the line of duty and has been hailed as hero for his police work and community service.
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Overnight violence claimed the lives of three people, including a 17-year-old boy, in two unrelated shootings in South Los Angeles, and five others were injured when shots were fired at a party, police said this morning.
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Flash flood warnings have been extended until 12:15 a.m.
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Los Angeles City Councilman Bill Rosendahl today called off a town hall meeting he had planned for Monday night in an effort to ease tensions between Brentwood residents and the bicyclists who frequent the neighborhood’s steep, winding streets.
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A car struck a bridge support pillar on the Santa Monica Freeway this morning and erupted into flames, killing at least four occupants and closing the freeway for about 20 minutes.
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County clerks across the state braced for continued heavy traffic today, some three days after same-sex marriages became legal in California.
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In the two days since same-sex couples have been allowed to wed in California, the number of marriage licenses issued statewide has surpassed that of an entire typical June week, according to a Times survey of the state’s 58 county clerks.
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