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VENICE, CA - JUNE 7, 2024 - A mural of Abbot Kinney looks over a parking lot where the Venice Dell Project will be built at the site provide housing for the homeless in Venice on June 7, 2024. Abbot Kinney was the developer who brought the famed Venice canals to the Westside. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

A long-stalled Venice affordable housing project could be moving forward

Last month, a judge ruled the city of L.A.’s Board of Transportation Commissioners erred in rejected the Venice Dell affordable housing project in 2024. The ruling opens a pathway to build the project, which was first proposed in 2016.

INGLEWOOD, CA - MARCH 31: An electronic billboard hangs over Manchester Boulevard in Inglewood on Tuesday, March 31, 2026. The city is investing $8.5 million to revitalize downtown Market Street, with grants of up to $250,000 for businesses. The revitalization arrives after some integral Black-owned businesses have already closed due to rising rents and eminent domain. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

A battle over billboards roils Inglewood

LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 3, 2026 - Queen AJ holds up a "GET THE FLOCK OUT," sign while joining members of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition at a press briefing ahead of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners meeting urging the department to end its partnership with Flock Safety in front of LAPD headquarters in downtown Los Angeles on March 3, 2026. Flock is an acronym for a technology company specializing in Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) cameras and software. They provide public safety, law enforcement, and neighborhood associations with devices that track vehicle license plates, make, color, and model, in real-time. The coalition and its partners have been calling for the dismantlement of this information sharing due to, what they allege, Flock ALPR data being used to facilitate mass deportations and criminalization. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

Push to install license plate readers comes amid questions about how data are shared

Peter Grossman exits Van Nuys Courthouse West on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024 in Van Nuys, CA.

Attorney hammers Peter Grossman, who concedes wife was drinking, speeding before she killed 2 boys

LAGUNA BEACH, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 19: An Orange County Sheriff's Department Airbus helicopter flies along the coastline at dusk on September 19, 2025 in Laguna Beach, California. . (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

O.C. man downs 2 quarts of Jack Daniel’s, shoots at sheriff’s helicopter, gets 9-year sentence

SOUTH LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 28: Maria Diaz, 46, of South Los Angeles, sees four IHSS patients daily, as well as two more patients who are not IHSS. She typically works 7 days a week and often bounces between clients, seeing some of them more than once in a day. Diaz takes care of Luis Aguayo, 86, who suffers from high blood pressure, severe arthritis and rheumatism, and who needs assistance walking. Maria checks his blood pressure daily and keeps a log for his doctors. home on Tuesday, March 28, 2023 in South Los Angeles, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

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LOCATION: 1382 Heron Way AREA/CITY: San Jacinto DETAILS: Homicide investigators identified the suspect in this case as 45-year-old Ismael Martinez, a resident of San Jacinto. During the investigation, homicide investigators learned that before this incident, Martinez had assaulted his 52-year-old girlfriend with a knife. The female victim was found in a vehicle near the scene of the shooting in the 1300 block of South Kirby Street in San Jacinto. The female victim was transported to a local hospital, where she remains in stable condition. There is no indication that Martinez or his girlfriend had any relation to the residence on Heron Way.

Intruder shot and killed by San Jacinto homeowner, sheriff says

LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 2, 2026: Mayoral candidate Nithya Raman raises her arms to thank her supporters at the end of her election night speech at Boomtown Brewery on June 2, 2026 in Los Angeles, CA. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

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LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 2, 2026: Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman smiles during her election night party at Boomtown Brewery on June 2, 2026 in Los Angeles, CA. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

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SAN PEDRO, CA - OCTOBER 28, 2025 -- SNAP recipients Vanessa Williams, center, her mother Alma Ramirez and others collect their weekly bags of food from the Toberman Neighborhood Center in San Pedro on October 28, 2025. United States Rep. Nanette Barragan held a news conference at Toberman in response to the potential lapse in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits due to the ongoing Trump-Republican government shutdown and the Trump Administration's refusal to tap into contingency funding to provide food assistance. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

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Los Angeles, CA - May 06: LAPD and DEA agents converge along Alvarado Avenue near MacArthur Park targeting an open-air drug market during "Operation Free MacArthur Park," where authorities arrested 18 people, including two people believed to be the main sources of fentanyl and methamphetamine in the park in Los Angeles Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
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Pomona, CA - April 08, 2026 - A bike rider makes their way across the campus of Pomona College on Wednesday, April 8, 2026 in Pomona, CA. As board members of the Black Student Union at Pomona College confront anti-Black racism on the Pomona campus and across the Claremont Colleges. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)
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LAGUNA NIGUEL, CA APRIL 4, 2026 -- Hikers are framed between a group of pedal-assist mountain bikers on the West Ridge trail inside Aliso Wood Canyon Wilderness Park in Laguna Niguel on April 4, 2026. Hikers, traditional mountain bikers, and regulators are concerned with the popularity of pedal assist mountain bikes. (Marc Martin / Los Angeles Times)
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Smog: L.A.’s Greatest Victory

Los Angeles, California, July 15, 1953 - SMOG TEST - Janet E. Dickinson operates an apparatus where gases are frozen to solid or liquid state for later analysis in a laboratory. The air pollution checkup of auto exhaust fumes and gas vapors were performed on the City Hall lawn in downtown Los Angeles, Calif., on July 15, 1953. Photo Credit: Frank Q. Brown / Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles, CA, Friday, March 22, 2024 - California Governor Gavin Newsom looks on as Jane Fonda hugs former Governor Schwarzenegger at a press event sponsored by Campaign for a Safe and Healthy California at a Ladera Heights soccer field. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 1, 2025 -- Traffic heads north on I-405 as a new era in commuting begins for clean-air vehicles with new rules that kick solo drivers out of California carpool lanes and uncertainty over how it will impact commute times and traffic in Los Angeles on October 1, 2025. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)
June 29, 1979: Sera Segal-Alsberg wears a mask designed to filter out airborne particles during a Los Angeles smog alert.
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Los Angeles, Calif., November 17, 1950 - Dr. A.J. Haagen-Smit, a Dutch-born chemist at Caltech, shows how smog is produced when hydrocarbons like rubber are oxidized or burned. In this demonstration the balloon exploded when ozone, an oxidizing gas, came in contact with it. Photo Credit: Bruce H. Cox / Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles, California, February 4, 1953 - Marian E. Lent walks to work on the morning for Feb. 4, 1953, as the City Hall building is seen through the smog-filled skies in downtown Los Angeles. Photo Credit: R.L. Oliver/ Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles, California-1966- In the smog battle a Los Angeles commuter wears an only slightly satiric gas mask on October 2, 1966. Automotive experts show how a new smog device cuts down on the emission of car fumes, while testifying before the California Assembly. ( Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection/Los Angeles Public Library)

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Iva Toguri D'Aquino, Tokyo Rose of the Japanese propaganda "Zero Hour" broadcasts which were beamed to American troops in the Pacific during the war, seems in a pensive mood as she looks through the bars of her cell in Yokohama, Japan, Oct. 28, 1945. Born in Los Angeles, 29 years ago to Japanese parents, she is awaiting trial for treason against the United States. (AP Photo)

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Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson starts a Bible-reading marathon at Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, June 28, 1931. The contest will continue through July 1, with what is said to be the largest Bible in the world being used by contestants. (AP Photo)
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MONTEREY PARK-CA-DECEMBER 9, 2013: Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca faces the media during a news conference in response to an announcement of the F.B.I. arrests of 17 sworn members of the Sheriff's Department in connetion with a federal probe into activities at county jails at the Department Headquarters in Monterey Park on Monday, December 9, 2013. (Christina House / For The Times)

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FILE - In this June 5, 1968, file photo, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy addresses campaign workers moments before being shot in Los Angeles. At his side are his wife, Ethel, and his California campaign manager, Jesse Unruh, speaker of the California Assembly. Prosecutors for the first time are not opposing the release of Sirhan Sirhan. The 77-year-old prisoner on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, faces his 16th parole hearing for fatally shooting Kennedy in 1968. (AP Photo/Dick Strobel, File)
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Los Angeles, California, July 13, 1981 - HILLSIDE STRANGLER - Angelo Buono, "Hillside Strangler" suspect, smiles as he listens to motion by the deputy district attorney to dismiss murder charges against him. With him is one of his attorneys, Kathy Mader. Photo Credit: R.L. Oliver / Los Angeles Times

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1990-06-22 - 'Holy Terror 'Manson tunnel LAPD crime scene photo. The railroad tunnel in which Ronald Baker was found had spooky graffiti and a dark mystique, the kind of place Valley kids dared each other to walk through at night. People called it the Manson Tunnel-the cult leader and his disciples had lived nearby at the Spahn Movie Ranch-and someone had spray-painted HOLY TERROR over the entrance.
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(Original Caption) Convicted spy Christopher Boyce is led by federal marshals at Burbank airport upon his arrival from Springfield, Massachusetts, for arraignment on charges related to his escape from Lompoc federal prison in January 1980.

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Boster, Mark -- - LOS ANGELES,CA.,JUNE 9, 2009: Veteran LAPD detective Stephanie Lazarus,49, appears at the Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles for her arraignment on murder charges June 9, 2009. Lazarus is charged with the 1986 murder of Sherri Rasmussen. (Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times)

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Los Angeles, CA - May 29, 1986 : Richard W. Miller (center) with his defense attorney (right) watch as the jury arrives to the Little League Park location as part of the espionage retrial. The park is located at Ohio Ave, and Sepulveda Blvd. May of 1986. ( Al Seib / Los Angeles Times )

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