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1 week ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
A Southern California Edison transmission tower that was being removed as part of an investigation into what caused the Eaton fire was damaged Thursday as it was being lifted by a helicopter, officials said. The damage occurred when the top portion of the tower came into contact with power lines, as it was being lifted, said David Eisenhauer, spokesperson for Southern California Edison.
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2 weeks ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
A view of the East Block at San Quentin. Thousands of drug tests given to California inmates gave false results last year. Prison advocates worry that parole decisions were tainted. Thousands of inmates wrongly tested positive for opiate use inside California state prisons last year because of a laboratory mistake, and civil rights attorneys now worry many of them could be denied parole and a chance at freedom because of it.
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1 month ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
Just weeks after the deadly Eaton fire ignited near three Southern California Edison transmission towers, the utility company quietly changed an internal policy on how crews should ground idle transmission towers. Just weeks after the deadly Eaton fire ignited near three Southern California Edison transmission towers, the utility quietly changed an internal policy on how crews should ground idle electrical pylons.
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1 month ago | 
latimes.com | Karen Garcia |Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
At Diamond Farmers Market in Walnut, Calif., Juan Balmaceda stocks shelves with celery from California. A lot of produce and groceries come from foreign countries. Sweeping tariffs have yet to hit the shelves of his local Costco, but Trinidad Estrada is already bracing for the impact on his family finances.
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1 month ago | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
By Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times Hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs is facing additional counts related to sex trafficking from federal prosecutors, according to a superseding indictment filed this week. Combs was hit with a three-count indictment in September that accused him of racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution.
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1 month ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
Sean “Diddy” Combs, shown in 2022, is facing additional counts of sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution in his federal case. Hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is facing additional counts related to sex trafficking from federal prosecutors, according to a superseding indictment filed this week. Combs was hit with a three-count indictment in September that accused him of racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution.
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1 month ago | 
latimes.com | Andrew J. Campa |Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department announced it had taken a man into custody near Baker, home of the world’s largest thermometer, after multiple shootings near the California-Nevada border. Authorities arrested a man who they allege fired at and wounded multiple people while on a two-state shooting rampage that ended Tuesday morning near the California desert town of Baker.
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1 month ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
Investigators examine Edison electrical lines and transmission towers in Altadena. The area is suspected as the origin site of the deadly Eaton fire. Southern California Edison crews are scaling tall electrical towers, testing the nearby soil and taking close-up images of electrical equipment, the latest detailed examination to determine exactly what sparked the disastrous Eaton fire. Plaintiff’s lawyers are also doing their own research.
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1 month ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández
When San Diego Police investigated a 2023 crash where a suspected drunk driver plowed into a parked van, the case started as most would. The driver was arrested and the van was towed away, put under lock and key at a local impound yard. But according to a $50-million claim filed against the city, police should have investigated further. Inside the parked van was Monica Cameroni de Adams, a 65-year-old mother who was homeless and sleeping in the middle row when it was hit.
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2 months ago | 
latimes.com | Salvador Hernandez |Salvador Hernández |Richard Winton |Hannah Fry
Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman is expected to provide an update Friday afternoon about Erik and Lyle Menendez, two brothers serving life terms for killing their parents who have sought to be released from prison. The 1989 killing inside the family’s Beverly Hills home, and the highly publicized trials that followed, sparked documentaries, films and a recent television series that have renewed public interest in the case decades later.
