[Sign up for our daily newsletter about news from California here.] LOS ANGELES — When Priscilla Fregoso and her family moved into their apartment in Van Nuys, a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley, three years ago, she finally breathed a sigh of relief. They had bounced from home to home in Long Beach and […]
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ImageTen candidates debated in Atlanta on Wednesday night.Credit…Demetrius Freeman for The New York Times Good morning. (Here’s the sign-up if you don’t already get California Today by email.) On Wednesday night, 10 Democratic presidential candidates took the stage in Atlanta for another long, wide-ranging debate. Finally, the candidates addressed the most pressing issue facing residents […]
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ImageMembers of the Hmong Voice Culture & Traditions group performed during a parade to start the 2013 Hmong New Year at the Fresno Fairgrounds.Credit…Craig Kohlruss/The Fresno Bee, via Associated Press Good morning. (If you don’t already get California Today by email, here’s the sign-up.) When Chia Youyee Vang heard about Sunday night’s horrific shooting in […]
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Lawsuits filed against Juul this week by the attorneys general of New York and California claim that the embattled company deliberately marketed and sold vaping products to young people — and helped create a public health crisis. On Tuesday, the American Medical Association echoed those concerns and called for a sweeping ban on all vaping […]
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× Teen accused of using remote control car to smuggle meth across border SAN DIEGO — A 16-year-old boy is accused of helping smuggle drugs into the U.S. via remote control car. Border Patrol agents said they arrested the teen around 12:30 a.m. Sunday after they spotted someone with two duffel bags walking along the U.S. […]
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VENICE, Calif. – A Southern California family is mourning the loss of their pet Yorkshire Terrier that they say was crushed under the weight of a FedEx package. Keiko Napier and Michell Galin told KCBS their pint-sized pup Cooper was in the backyard of their Venice home, lying in the sun, when a FedEx delivery […]
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Please enable Javascript to watch this video JACKSON, Calif. (KTXL) – The latest wave of California power shutoffs could disrupt Thanksgiving for thousands of people – especially many of those in need. Many food banks across Northern California are now scrambling to prepare for a potential power shutoff as some have thousands of frozen turkeys […]
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ImageA homeless person’s camp under a freeway overpass in San Francisco.Credit…Jim Wilson/The New York Times Good morning. Today, we’re starting with a dispatch from my colleague Thomas Fuller, who’s based in the Bay Area: Many cities across California this year announced sharp increases in homelessness. Yet data from San Francisco suggest the real picture might […]
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LAS VEGAS — Want to understand Iowa’s outsize role in selecting the Democratic presidential nominee? Just come to the West, where anyone in Nevada or California will tell you: We are the voters presidential candidates should be paying more attention to. Nevada will be the third state to vote in 2020, with its caucus coming […]
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ImageJulian Castro, Democratic presidential candidate, spoke during a presidential forum at the California Democratic Party’s convention Saturday in Long Beach.Credit…Chris Carlson/Associated Press Good morning. (If you don’t already get California Today delivered to your inbox, here’s the sign-up.) Over the weekend, Democratic presidential candidates swung through Southern California, making their pitches to state party officials […]
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A group of family and friends were gathered in a backyard Sunday to watch a football game when a gunman walked up and began shooting, killing four people and wounding six others, according to authorities in Fresno, California. About 35 to 40 people were at the house, including several children, when the suspect — who […]
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About nine people were shot and “several” killed after gunmen sneaked into the backyard of a home in Fresno, Calif., during a family gathering and opened fire Sunday, the authorities said. Friends and family at the home were watching a football game when the gunmen opened fire, Lt. Bill Dooley of the Fresno Police Department […]
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The two teens killed when a fellow student opened fire at their Southern California high school this week have been identified. Grace Anne Muehlberger, 15, and Dominic Blackwell, 14, died at the hospital, authorities said. Three other teens were wounded and are expected to survive. The gunman randomly shot students after taking out a .45-caliber pistol from his backpack […]
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[Breaking news update, published at 8:25 p.m. ET] The 16-year-old gunman who killed two high school classmates and shot three other students before using his final bullet on himself has died at a hospital, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Friday evening. [Previous story, published at 7:52 p.m. ET] After the gunshots began, and […]
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In its commitment to addressing the failures of the prison industrial complex—as it pertains to mental health, drug dependency, chronic homelessness, and other issues—Patrisse Cullors, founder of Reform L.A. Jails, knew her organization would require a unique strategy in order to build a stronger rapport with Los Angeles residents and educate them on the unspeakable […]
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ImageParishioners and community members light candles during a service at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in the wake of the Saugus High School shooting in Santa Clarita on Thursday.Credit…David Walter Banks for The New York Times Good morning. (Here’s the sign-up, if you don’t already get California Today by email.) This dispatch comes from Jill, who […]
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Please enable Javascript to watch this video SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (KTLA) – The student who investigators believe is responsible for the deadly Saugus High School shooting in Santa Clarita, California on Thursday was described as “a quiet kid.” Ryan McCracken, 20, a former childhood friend of the alleged shooter, talked about how they used to […]
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SANTA CLARITA, Calif. — Frantic parents texted with teenagers barricaded in classrooms. Others offered shelter to students fleeing their high school in this sleepy suburb north of Los Angeles on Thursday. It was the latest example of a wrenching sequence that has become a recurring nightmare for families in America. This time it was a […]
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Please enable Javascript to watch this video SAN DIEGO (KSWB) – A group of surfers got a once-in-a-lifetime encounter with a gray whale at an Orange County beach this week. About two-dozen surfers were hanging out between sets at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point when the whale calmly made its way through the lineup. […]
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Please enable Javascript to watch this video SANTA CLARITA, Calif. – After learning about the deadly shooting at Saugus High School on Thursday morning, parents rushed to the Santa Clarita campus as fast as they could. Students said they started hearing shots just as classes were about to start at 7:50 a.m. One mother said she […]
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If you get an error message, please refresh the page. At least five people have been injured in a shooting at a high school in the Southern California city of Santa Clarita, and authorities are looking for the shooter, officials said. The shooting happened Thursday morning at Saugus High School, some 30 miles northwest of […]
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