CALIFORNIA & LOCAL
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L.A. will add bike and bus lanes, cut car lanes in sweeping policy shift
The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday approved a sweeping transportation plan that calls for the addition of hundreds of miles of new bicycle lanes, bus-only lanes and other road redesigns over the next 20 years.
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California gives immigrants here illegally unprecedented rights, benefits, protections
It started with in-state tuition. Then came driver's licenses, new rules designed to limit deportations and state-funded healthcare for children. And on Monday, in a gesture heavy with symbolism, came a new law to erase the word "alien" from California's labor code.
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L.A. County will move 1,000 mentally ill inmates out of jails
Setting a path for the future of the Los Angeles County jail system, the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a plan to eventually move 1,000 offenders with mental health issues out of lock-ups as well as to build a new downtown jail.
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In Arcadia, frustration builds as more homes give way to mansions
One of Arcadia's most heated political battlegrounds is a cozy house on Orange Grove Avenue with a fat brick chimney and bright white shutters.
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Target of Kern County manhunt has 'plenty of firearms,' sheriff says
Authorities have identified a gunman believed to be hiding in a remote area east of Bakersfield who is wanted for killing a dentist and wounding two Kern County sheriff’s deputies more than a week ago, officials announced Tuesday.
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Heat wave expected to bake Los Angeles by Thursday
A heat wave is coming to Los Angeles that will send temperatures into the triple digits for some communities by the weekend, the National Weather Service said Monday.
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Six arrested in latest of several DMV bribery cases
Authorities have arrested six people, including three workers for the California Department of Motor Vehicles, in connection with an alleged bribery scheme in which brokers for truckers were issued more than 100 Class A commercial driver’s licenses without the buyer taking or passing required tests,...
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Watts' elders reflect on riots' legacy: Too much change or not enough?
Progress can be a touchy subject for black people who came of age in South Los Angeles during the era of the Watts riots.
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Gov. Brown doesn't want California to use this word for immigrants
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown signed a trio of immigration-related measures Monday, including one removing the word “alien” from California’s labor code because it is seen as a disparaging term for those not born in the United States.
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Frank Gehry agreed to make over the L.A. River -- with one big condition
Frank Gehry and the Los Angeles River: It's a combination that makes zero sense (if you're looking strictly at Gehry's resume) and follows a natural logic (if you think about the interest the architect's work has long shown in L.A.'s linear infrastructure and its overlooked, harder-to-love corners).
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West Oakland eviction ends with explosion, injuries sheriff's deputies
Two Alameda County sheriff’s deputies were injured Tuesday morning when a West Oakland home exploded as they served an eviction, authorities said.
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Steve-O released on bail after anti-SeaWorld crane stunt in Hollywood
“Jackass” star Steve-O was released on bail Monday after an anti-SeaWorld stunt atop a construction crane in Hollywood landed him in jail.
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Gov. Brown signs law barring grand juries in police deadly force cases
Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Tuesday a measure that prohibits secret grand juries to weigh in on cases involving excessive or deadly force by law enforcement, and another affirming the public’s right to take audio or video recordings of police officers.
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L.A. maps out sweeping transportation overhaul
First it was a ban on plastic bags. Then came the workplace prohibition on e-cigarettes.
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Ezell Ford demonstrators disrupt L.A. Police Commission meeting
An L.A. Police Commission meeting was briefly halted Tuesday after protesters began chanting and calling for criminal charges against the two officers who fatally shot Ezell Ford a year ago today.
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Jerusalem fire explodes to 12,000 acres, nearly merging with Rocky fire
A wildfire burning north of Napa exploded overnight to 12,000 acres, touching and nearly merging Tuesday with the southern edge of the massive Rocky fire.
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In a first, California agrees to pay for transgender inmate's sex reassignment
California is first in the nation to agree to pay for a transgender inmate's sex reassignment operation, but the state's settlement of a recent court case sidesteps the question of whether such surgery is a constitutional right.
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Thousands back petition to halt new horror film resembling Isla Vista shooting
A trailer for the horror film “Del Playa,” released last week, depicts a teenage boy, bullied at home and at school, murdering classmates after being rejected by a girl.
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Moviegoers fearing chainsaw attack escape Newport Beach theater
Moviegoers in Newport Beach ran from what they thought was a chainsaw-wielding attacker after a small group burst into a crowded theater and revved the motor of a leaf blower, police said Monday.