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The Orange County Superior Court judge said Thursday he will order Sheriff Sandra Hutchens to testify at an evidentiary hearing involving allegations of outrageous governmental misconduct in the use of jailhouse snitches.
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A map of marijuana dispensaries in L.A. released Wednesday by City Controller Ron Galperin illustrated his concern that the city will not be able to collect all of its due taxes from the shops when recreational pot becomes legal in 2018.
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L.A's Olympic bid chairman Wednesday gave his most conciliatory comments to date suggesting the city is open to the possibility of a "dual award" decision that could make Paris the host of the 2024 Summer Games while awarding L.A. the 2028 games.
 For the past two years Los Angeles has reported the largest number of chronically homeless people in the country, with 95 percent living outdoors, in tents, cars, and encampments.
""We didn't need a homeless count to know... Los Angeles is undergoing a housing and homelessness crisis," Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said.
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See renderings of what a new Pershing Square could look like.
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LA 2024 released new renderings of how arenas and locations could be altered if the city lands the Games.
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Protesters gathered in MacArthur Park for the march dubbed "Resist Los Angeles," designed to be a show of "resistance, unity and defiance" against many White House policies.
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The 9-foot-tall black-granite monument stands at the spot where many Japanese-Americans were ordered to board buses bound for the Manzanar detention center.
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The refilling process is expected to use water from the Los Angeles Aqueduct.
Performers at March for Science in Chicago, one of dozens of demonstrations nationwide on Earth Day 2017
L.A. marchers join worldwide demonstrations against the Trump administrations policies on science and the environment.
The downtown skyline viewed from above Figueroa Terrace near Dodger Stadium January 2012.
L.A.'s Mayor vowed that the City will not become a "federal immigration force."
City Councilman Paul Koretz wants Billy the Elephant moved from the L.A. Zoo to a sanctuary. | photo: KCET/SoCal Connected
City Councilman Paul Koretz calls the Zoo's elephant habitat "unnatural" and "restricted."
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