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KESQ News Channel 3

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SoCal prosecutors back challenge to Newsom commutation of death sentences

LOS ANGELES (KESQ) - A nonprofit public-interest advocacy group announced a legal challenge today to Gov. Gavin Newsom's commutation of sentences for 548 inmates on California's death row, and Southland prosecutors quickly backed the move. "We stand firmly with the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation in challenging this arbitrary commutation that sidelines victims' families and disregards The post SoCal prosecutors back challenge to Newsom commutation of death sentences appeared first on KESQ .

California · 21h

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State awards $1 million for Pacific Surfliner planning

The agency that oversees Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner service said Wednesday it received $1 million in state funding to update a plan aimed at making passenger rail service more reliable between San Diego, Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo. The Los Angeles-San Diego-San Luis Obispo Rail Corridor Agency, known as LOSSAN,...

San Diego, CA · 1d

Los Angeles Times

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Fighting City Hall will get a lot more expensive under plan backed by L.A. council

The proposed change would increase the cost of appealing city land-use and zoning decisions from $229 to more than $1,000 for neighbors, and more than $2,000 for others.

Los Angeles, CA · 3d

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Asian Americans win all three of Los Angeles’ citywide elected offices for first time

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Diya TV) — Mayor-elect Nithya Raman and City Attorney-elect Marissa Roy will join City Controller Kenneth Mejia in leading Los Angeles’ three citywide elected offices, marking the first time Asian Americans have held all three posts. Raman defeated incumbent Karen Bass with 54.81% of the...

Los Angeles, CA · 23h

wanderingcalifornia.com

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Route 66 in California: Desert Towns & Mother Road Stops

Route 66 in California is the last stretch of the Mother Road, running about 345 miles from the Colorado River at Needles to the Pacific at Santa Monica, according to the National Park Service. It packs the whole Route 66 story into one state: empty desert highway, a neon-lit ghost town, a silver-mining boomtown, and a pier at the end. And 2026 is the road’s centennial year, a hundred years since U.S. Route 66 was designated on November 11, 1926.

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The National Law Review

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School District Violated Labor Code By Rejecting Applicants Based On Expunged Misdemeanor Convictions

A.S. v. Los Angeles Unified Sch. Dist. , 123 Cal. App. 5 th 519 (2026) Two applicants for employment with the Los Angeles Unified School District (one for a part-time after-school program position and the other for a legal secretary position) were rejected based on their prior misdemeanor convictions (for battery and grand theft, respectively), both of which had been expunged pursuant to Cal. Penal Code § 1203.4. The District contended that its duty to protect students required it to screen out applicants with nearly any criminal conviction, notwithstanding expungement. The trial courts in the two separate actions granted summary judgment to the applicants, and the Court of Appeal affirmed in this consolidated appeal, holding that the District violated Cal. Lab. Code § 432.7, which prohibits employers from asking about or utilizing expunged convictions. The Court further held that the statutory exceptions upon which the District relied did not apply because no law required the District to obtain information about, or prohibited it from hiring individuals with, the particular misdemeanor convictions at issue (misdemeanor battery and misdemeanor grand theft).

Los Angeles, CA · 2d

Los Angeles Times

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Inside the $40-million renovation of an Art Deco gem in bustling Leimert Park

After five phases of renovations over 20 years, totaling $40 million, the Vision Theatre in Leimert Park will reopen with 'A Proud Family Wizmas.'

Los Angeles, CA · 11h

CBS LA

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Graffiti Towers downtown Los Angeles are free of graffiti

The sprawling 1.5 million-square-foot complex on S Flower St. actually has an official name, the Los Angeles Oceanwide Plaza, and once new owners stepped in this summer, cleanup started.

Los Angeles, CA · 1d

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LA Has Many Vacant Apartments, But The Homeless And Overcrowded Cannot Afford Them

PLANNING WATCH - LA has a new Mayor. But if you now expect major changes from her, let me set you straight. The new mayor, Nithya Raman, may have a different personality, age, and separate supporters from the defeated mayor, Karen Bass, but they have much more in common than their differences. And if you think that things in Los Angeles will be substantially different under the new mayor, it is time for you to reconsider.

Los Angeles, CA · 19h

The Spun

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Map Reveals America's Best Sports Cities, With Los Angeles Coming In At No. 1

A Wallethub review of the presence of every major sport in 399 cities across the county found they are well-distributed regionally

Los Angeles, CA · 1d

Yahoo!

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America Is About To Have Too Many Schools And Too Few Kids

Enrollment is falling, buildings are emptying, and America has a chance to rethink what a school can become. American public education has spent much of the last century figuring out what to do when schools have too many children. We built buildings. We added wings. We put classrooms in trailers....

Los Angeles, CA · 1d

The Cool Down

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California's West Nile surge has killed 32 people, and experts are 'scared of next year'

"We need people to understand how they can prevent the situation."

California · 14h

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Caltech launching new center to prepare SoCal for next natural disaster

The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena is launching a new center to prepare Southern California for the next major disaster. Led by seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones, the Center for Disaster Resilience aims to bring researchers and community leaders together to focus on preparedness, response and recovery for natural disaster threats affecting the region. That includes earthquakes, wildfires, extreme heat, flooding and tropical storms.

Pasadena, CA · 1d

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LA County Seeks Sanctions Against Doctor Who Went Silent in Bias Lawsuit

Los Angeles Superior Court — Venue for Bias Lawsuit Sanctions Request. Los Angeles County attorneys have asked a judge to sanction Dr. Melani Cargle, telling the court she has not answered written discovery questions in her long-running employment lawsuit against the county and UCLA Health. The attorneys say they have neither seen nor heard from Cargle in more than a year, and that she has effectively vanished from the case after relocating to Virginia.

Los Angeles County, CA · 21h

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PMI Foods Donates 800 Pounds of Beef to LA's Dream Center Veterans Day Cookout

On Veterans Day, saying "thank you for your service" meant something you could put on a plate. In Los Angeles, hundreds of veterans and their families gathered for a cookout fueled by 800 pounds of top sirloin and rib eye steaks — a donation that turned gratitude into a hot meal for people who too often go without one.

Los Angeles, CA · 1d

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Korean Immigrant Opened a California Home Goods Store in 1979, and His Grandson Is Still Carrying It Forward

Kimchi refrigerators, rice cookers, and thick Korean blankets fill a two-story home goods store that has served families for nearly five decades. Its founder arrived from Korea with an idea: make familiar household essentials easier to find for immigrants building new lives. What began as a small shop grew into...

Los Angeles, CA · 1d

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Downey completes 44 of 101 strategic plan goals

DOWNEY — The Downey City Council received a quarterly update Tuesday on its Downey Forward 2030 Strategic Plan, with city staff reporting that 44 of the plan’s 101 actions were complete as of Sept. 30. Another 45 actions were underway, nine had yet to start and three were...

Downey, CA · 1d

ABC7

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Pasadena woman fights to bring home mother she says was taken by caregiver

A woman is desperate to reunite with her mother and says a caregiver took her.

Pasadena, CA · 2d

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‘Paul R. Williams: Architect for Living’ to open at LACMA

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art will open “Paul R. Williams: Architect for Living” on Nov. 15 in the Resnick Pavilion, examining the architect’s contributions to Southern California through projects ranging from public housing to the Beverly Hills Hotel. The exhibition runs through May 31, 2027.

Los Angeles, CA · 1d

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Cold Fire in Los Angeles County Nears Five Months, Cause Undetermined

The Cold Fire has burned for nearly five months in Los Angeles County, on federal land managed by the U.S. Forest Service. A Thursday status update from the Sacramento Bee puts the wildfire's discovery at 11:27 p.m. on June 20. The National Interagency Fire Center lists the cause as undetermined and the containment status as unknown.

Los Angeles County, CA · 20h