Boiling Point

18 hours ago | latimes.com | Jeff Martin |Safiyah Riddle

A former police chief and convicted killer known as the “Devil in the Ozarks” was captured by law enforcement 1.5 miles northwest of the prison he escaped from following a massive, nearly two-week-long manhunt in the rugged mountains of northern Arkansas, authorities announced Friday. Grant Hardin, a former police chief in the small town of Gateway near the Arkansas-Missouri border, was serving lengthy sentences for murder and rape.

19 hours ago | latimes.com | Kevin Baxter

With much of the Dodgers’ pitching staff spending more time in the trainer’s room than on the field this season, the team has practically launched a shuttle service to ferry arms between triple-A Oklahoma City and the big leagues. On Friday it deposited left-hander Justin Wrobleski on the mound at Busch Stadium where he failed to give the Dodgers the lift they needed, allowing four runs in six innings of a 5-0 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals.

22 hours ago | latimes.com | Hannah Fry

A lawsuit filed by the ACLU on behalf of three Sonoma County residents accuses the county of using drones to take aerial images of their property in violation of their right to privacy. One plaintiff said she received a notice of code violations shortly after a drone circled over her property twice.

1 day ago | latimes.com | Keith Naughton |Gabrielle Coppola

Car buyers racing to get ahead of President Trump’s tariffs face an uncomfortable truth — the trade war is already boosting US auto prices, often in ways nearly invisible to consumers. The sticker price on a particular make and model may not have changed, at least not yet. But automakers have been quietly cutting rebates and limiting cheap financing deals, adding hundreds of dollars to buyers’ monthly payments even as the companies say they’re holding the line on pricing.

1 day ago | latimes.com | Rob Golum

Netflix Inc. shareholders overwhelmingly rejected the reelection of venture capitalist Jay Hoag to the board of the streaming company after he was called out for failing to attend enough meetings. Hoag, a founding general partner of Menlo Park, California-based TCV, received 71.4 million votes backing his reelection and 259.9 million votes against, according to a Netflix filing Friday.