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Jenny Gold

San Francisco

Reporter at Los Angeles Times

Reporter @latimes covering early childhood education and health. Mom, cat lady, audio uber-fan. [email protected] or DM for Signal.

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  • 4 weeks ago | latimes.com | Jenny Gold

    Orange County pediatrician Dr. Eric Ball still feels guilty about the Disneyland measles outbreak of 2014. At the time, his office allowed children whose parents refused to vaccinate them to still remain as patients. Many took advantage of the policy, leaving the children in his practice well below the 95% threshold that experts say is needed to achieve herd immunity. In the end, a single measles case at the theme park spread to 145 people across the country; several were part of his practice.

  • 4 weeks ago | latimes.com | Jenny Gold

    Dennis McDougal, a former Los Angeles Times reporter and bestselling author of over a dozen books, including “Privileged Son,” a biography of former L.A. Times publisher Otis Chandler, died Saturday of injuries following a car accident. He was 77. McDougal and his wife, Sharon, had been driving from their home near Memphis, Tenn., to visit family in the Los Angeles area, said Megan Cole Lyle, his granddaughter.

  • 1 month ago | latimes.com | Jenny Gold

    A crash resulting from a wrong-way driver killed two people in Pomona on Saturday night. Two women were killed and a 1-year-old child was hospitalized after a car being driven the wrong way by a motorist allegedly driving under the influence slammed into two vehicles on the 60 Freeway, the California Highway Patrol said. The CHP received reports of a wrong-way car traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes of the Pomona Freeway near the 71 Freeway about 11 p.m. Saturday.

  • 1 month ago | latimes.com | Howard Blume |Jenny Gold |Jaweed Kaleem |Daniel Miller

    An exterior view of the Department of Education building. President Trump signed an executive order Thursday ordering the dismantling of the department. President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education, a long-anticipated action that will affect how billions of dollars in federal funding for California will be distributed to millions of students, educators and institutions.

  • 1 month ago | azdailysun.com | Jenny Gold

    LOS ANGELES — By the time the Fortier family heard the insistent pounding on the front door, the electric power at their Altadena home had been out for hours, and they were huddled around a flashlight doing a puzzle. Their neighbors shouted they needed to leave — now. Fortier hoped the music would distract them. It didn't. The girls knew what was happening, "much more than you'd imagine," he said.

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RT @hannahcwiley: I remain in major awe of my colleagues @latimes. For those who cancelled their subscription in the last year in protest…