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1 week ago | 
latimes.com | Rebecca Ellis |Koko Nakajima |Sean Greene
Long before the evacuation order came, law enforcement officers knew fire was spreading in west Altadena. At 12:55 a.m. Jan. 8, a sheriff’s official reported a flaming structure on the corner of Las Flores Drive, a few doors down from the home of a 71-year-old who would later die in the fire. At 2:33 a.m., a Pasadena police officer told 911 dispatchers that flames had consumed Monterosa Drive, where a man would die on his walkway, clutching a garden hose.
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1 month ago | 
latimes.com | Hannah Wiley |Laura J. Nelson |Koko Nakajima
Despite having some of the nation’s strictest school vaccination laws, California reported a decline last year in the share of kindergarten students who were immunized against measles, including in 16 counties where students no longer have herd immunity against one of the most contagious diseases.
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2 months ago | 
latimes.com | Phi Do |David Wharton |Koko Nakajima
The scars left behind — charred hillsides, entire neighborhoods like checkerboards of ash and rubble — reveal only a fraction of what January wildfires took from Southern California. A month after the first signs of smoke and flame, victims are still mourning the loss of small things, a snapshot or a teacup. Communities have been robbed of the parks and libraries and churches where they used to gather.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
msn.com | Andrea Castillo |Koko Nakajima
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
latimes.com | Andrea Castillo |Koko Nakajima
People seeking asylum are detained by the Border Patrol after crossing from Mexico into the San Diego area in June. A historic uptick in migration during Joe Biden’s presidency led to attacks as he ran for reelection, with Donald Trump and fellow Republicans blaming Democrats for the swelling number of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
latimes.com | Koko Nakajima |Phi Do
California and Los Angeles County are getting tougher on crime. The stiffer penalties on some drug and theft crimes that voters recently approved with Proposition 36 took effect this month. Weeks earlier, in L.A. County, former federal prosecutor Nathan Hochman was sworn in as the new district attorney and kicked off his administration by reversing several policies his progressive predecessor George Gascón put in place.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
latimes.com | Koko Nakajima |Phi Do
Former President Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the race for the White House on Wednesday. While Harris won all of California’s 54 electoral college votes, a closer look at precinct results reveals regions where Trump easily won the majority as well as competitive areas where no party had a stronghold. Explore the precinct results from Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties and see how your neighborhood voted.
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Jun 7, 2023 | 
birminghamdailyjournal.com | Koko Nakajima
Challenge Family racing returns to France’s Côte d’Azur on the weekend of June 10-11, 2023, for the inaugural Challenge Cagnes-sur-Mer. Athletes will take on a challenging course set in the foothills above Nice and along the Mediterranean shoreline. Biggest favorites seems to be Rudy von Berg (USA) and Imogen Simmonds (SUI). Challenge Cagnes-sur-Mer lands on the French Riviera with both standard and middle-distance events.
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Jun 3, 2023 | 
birminghamdailyjournal.com | Koko Nakajima
Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don’t worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here. Beatshapers’ Alexey Menshikov took a few minutes at the GamesBeat Summit to talk about mixed reality technology, past and future. Mixed reality technology is in kind of a weird spot right now. The last few years have seen some serious ups and downs. There was a point early where Sony looked pretty impressive on the AR front with Eye of Judgement.
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May 31, 2023 | 
birminghamdailyjournal.com | Koko Nakajima
Taika Waititi and Sterlin Harjo have a routine they’ve done at parties that kills. They perfected it at Sundance in the early 2000s, in a condo dance-off with two Navajo guys. “Taika would strike this Michael Jackson pose with his hand pointing in the air and unbutton the pearl button on his shirt,” says Harjo, the Seminole-Muskogee director with whom Waititi would go on to co-create the FX comedy series Reservation Dogs in 2019.
