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LAPD's alleged failure to produce records related to the use of automatic license plate readers sparks law suit.
About seven-tenths of an inch of rain fell in downtown Los Angeles overnight and today, helping give firefighters a break.
Backers of an initiative to impose a 9.5 percent tax on oil and natural gas extracted in California received permission last week to begin gathering signatures.
Former students and colleagues today paid their final respects and hailed the career of former LAUSD teacher Sal Castro, who joined his students in Eastside school walkouts in 1968 to protest inequities in educational opportunities for Latinos.
The educator and activist who played a major role in the East L.A. blowouts died peacefully earlier this month.
The average delay Sunday night in Southern California was three hours.
A brushfire in the canyons and mountainsides above Monrovia has blackened about 125 acres and was 55 percent contained.
Earthquake scientists said once steady funding becomes available, Southern Californians could get alerts up to a minute before temblors strikes.
L.A. Department of Water and Power officials have proposed ending a costly, decade-old practice of dumping drinkable water into a dry lake bed in Owens Valley that would otherwise be stricken with dust storms.
Law enforcement agencies will beef up personnel at places where people assemble in large numbers.
Southland law enforcement officials were on heightened alert today.