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The South Coast Air Quality Management District was heavily criticized for ousting long-time executive director last month.
The Dodger Stadium Express bus is free for people with game-day tickets. Service will begin starting two hours before game time.
Virginia Pritchard, 83, was found trapped beneath the dual rear wheels of the truck and was pronounced dead at the scene.
The woman is expected to survive. Police don't know what led to the stabbing or why the husband stabbed his wife.
Tickets for the 'secret' show will go on sale at noon at the former Tower Records store location in West Hollywood
There are live wires down. It's not clear when the road will be reopened.
The company will work with the government of El Salvador to strengthen accountability and professional standards.
The grant will go toward a five-year effort to promote and research the role of healthy habits and nutrition in reducing cancer risk.
The company agreed not to use the Academy's trademarks or otherwise suggest the bags were sanctioned by the Oscars.
An email sent anonymously to the city council suggested Mayor Lindsey Horvath had a secret abortion.
Most of the oil was contained on the pier but an unknown amount was spilled into the harbor.
More than $20 million in forfeited assets were seized in the probe spearhead by ICE Homeland Security Investigations.
He beat out 24 others in the county and will now compete in the California State Elementary Spelling Bee Championship.
The baby was found unresponsive by his teenage mother and died at the hospital. The boy was under the care the mother's adoptive mother.
The driver, Reynaldo Chilel-Ramirez, 23, died at a hospital, and the front passenger, 17-year-old Adelso Chilel-Lopez, died at the scene.
The California primary is June 7 and could play an outsized role in the presidential race for the Republican Party nomination.
Once Gov. Brown sign the bill into law, California will have the highest minimum wage in the nation.
The state holiday honors the late labor leader credited with improving work and quality-of-life conditions for immigrant farm workers.
When completed, there will be 10 families with homes that they otherwise could not afford to buy.
Lawrence Wells, 54, of Richmond, Calif., faces up to a year in prison when he is sentenced on June 27.
