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Inside China’s alleged scheme to influence governments in L.A. County and far beyond
1 day, 15 hours ago

Inside China’s alleged scheme to influence governments in L.A. County and far beyond

LA Times  

The American and Chinese flags wave at Genting Snow Park ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Zhangjiakou, China, on Feb. 2, 2022. According to the criminal complaint, Sun referred to the council member in messages to Chinese officials as a “new political star.” While the U.S. attorney’s office has declined to identify the politician — identified only as Individual …

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Emergency room visits at this Loma Linda hospital are longer than at most ERs in the U.S.
1 day, 15 hours ago

Emergency room visits at this Loma Linda hospital are longer than at most ERs in the U.S.

LA Times  

Beaumont, Calif., resident Nicole Vela, 45, was kept waiting so long at Loma Linda University Medical Center that her husband, Jorge, drove her to another hospital. In recent years, patients have typically spent roughly seven hours at the Loma Linda emergency department before leaving, data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services show. That has piled more pressure on …

Medical Emergency Mental Illness Patients Care Hospital California
'I will not take the oath of office': CA official abruptly resigns fearing for her safety
2 days, 11 hours ago

'I will not take the oath of office': CA official abruptly resigns fearing for her safety

Raw Story  

A California official abruptly resigned Friday fearing for her safety. "Due to personal safety and security reasons, I will not take the oath of office for a second term," she said. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions beginning on his first day in office, and his "border czar" has threatened so-called "sanctuary cities" that won't help his effort. …

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Winners emerge as L.A. council members receive new assignments for 2025
2 days, 15 hours ago

Winners emerge as L.A. council members receive new assignments for 2025

LA Times  

Los Angeles City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez, pictured at a rally last month in Lincoln Heights, came out a winner in this year’s batch of council committee assignments. She assailed the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, saying efforts to get information from that agency has been “the merry go round from hell.” In recent weeks, Rodriguez criticized Harris-Dawson over his push …

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California man arrested on suspicion of beheading 1-year-old son, authorities say
2 days, 15 hours ago

California man arrested on suspicion of beheading 1-year-old son, authorities say

LA Times  

A Sacramento County father has been arrested on suspicion of beheading his 1-year-old son, sheriff’s officials said. Andrey Demskiy, 28, was arrested and booked Friday on felony charges of murder, assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury, and corporal injury on a spouse in connection with the child’s death, according to authorities and jail records. Sheriff’s …

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A train plowed into a tractor-trailer stopped on the tracks. The NTSB is trying to determine why
2 days, 15 hours ago

A train plowed into a tractor-trailer stopped on the tracks. The NTSB is trying to determine why

Associated Press  

PECOS, Texas — Federal officials investigating the deadly West Texas collision between at Union Pacific train and a tractor-trailer hauling a wind turbine base said Friday they were trying to determine why the tractor-trailer was stopped on the tracks, leading to the crash that derailed the train and propelled the enormous wind turbine base into the air. The collision caused …

Train Ntsb Reeves County Texas Collision
A judge says Missouri’s GOP governor has the power to replace a Democratic county’s prosecutor
2 days, 15 hours ago

A judge says Missouri’s GOP governor has the power to replace a Democratic county’s prosecutor

Associated Press  

— A Missouri judge ruled Friday that the state’s Republican governor, not a local Democratic official, has the power to fill a vacancy in the prosecutor’s office for the state’s most populous county. A spokesperson said St. Louis County would appeal St. Louis Circuit Judge Brian May’s decision siding with Gov. “The voice of St. Louis County residents is taken …

Democratic Missouri Republican County Prosecutor Bell Ruling
Taxpayers set to shoulder £43billion worth of council debt under Labour's devolution plans
2 days, 17 hours ago

Taxpayers set to shoulder £43billion worth of council debt under Labour's devolution plans

Daily Mail  

Taxpayers are set to bear the burden of £43billion worth of council debt under Labour's plans to create 'super-councils' via their local authority reform. Thurrock Council was left with more than £1billion worth of debt after investing in a solar farm tycoon who used taxpayer cash to buy luxury goods including a yacht and a private jet Ministers want to …

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Fentanyl fuels record homeless deaths in Oregon’s Multnomah County, home to Portland
2 days, 19 hours ago

Fentanyl fuels record homeless deaths in Oregon’s Multnomah County, home to Portland

Associated Press  

PORTLAND, Ore. — Fentanyl fueled a record number of homeless deaths last year in Oregon’s Multnomah County, home to Portland, according to an annual county report released Friday that officials described as showing the peak of the fentanyl crisis in the area. “The devastating toll fentanyl is taking on our community is starkly apparent in this report and it is …

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The Crowd: Elton John serenades Segerstrom at 50th annual Candelight Concert
3 days, 15 hours ago

The Crowd: Elton John serenades Segerstrom at 50th annual Candelight Concert

LA Times  

The late Henry Segerstrom was surely smiling down from the heavens above as the 50th anniversary Candlelight Concert held at Segerstrom Center for the Arts unfolded on a recent Friday night, heralding the holiday season in Costa Mesa. There were brilliant moments when the purity of his range thrilled, especially with John’s rendition of his famous tribute to Marlyn Monroe, …

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Is a 1976 drainage plan to blame for 2023 Rolling Hills Estates landslide? Homeowners’ lawsuit says yes
3 days, 15 hours ago

Is a 1976 drainage plan to blame for 2023 Rolling Hills Estates landslide? Homeowners’ lawsuit says yes

LA Times  

Homes on Peartree Lane remain damaged in November 2023, months after a landslide in Rolling Hills Estates. City and county officials “knew or should have known that the proposed Park Community and other developments in the watershed area would significantly increase the stormwater flow in the open canyon drainage channel, and that the increased stormwater flow would erode, down-cut, and …

Homes Homeowners Lawsuit City Drainage County Rolling Hills Estates
They were locked up 17 years ago for a murder. L.A.’s new district attorney is setting them free
3 days, 15 hours ago

They were locked up 17 years ago for a murder. L.A.’s new district attorney is setting them free

LA Times  

After spending 17 years behind bars for a murder he did not commit, Lombardo Palacios walks out of the Los Angeles County courthouse a free man with his mother, Claudia Ortiz. In a dramatic courtroom scene that one wrongly convicted woman called “a Christmas miracle,” a Los Angeles County judge on Friday vacated the murder sentences of two people — …

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Video of jailer appearing to slam inmate into wall sparks calls for DOJ investigation
3 days, 15 hours ago

Video of jailer appearing to slam inmate into wall sparks calls for DOJ investigation

LA Times  

Two lawmakers from California have asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate a violent incident at Men’s Central Jail in 2022, when a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy appeared to bash a handcuffed inmate’s head into a concrete wall, leaving a gaping, 3-inch wound. “The federal government has successfully pursued cases against notable members of the LASD,” she wrote, …

Inmate Department Force Los Angeles County Wall Head Padilla
Fani Willis to appeal to Georgia Supreme Court after disqualification in Trump case
3 days, 20 hours ago

Fani Willis to appeal to Georgia Supreme Court after disqualification in Trump case

Raw Story  

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis filed a notice of appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court after she was disqualified from prosecuting President-elect Donald Trump and others for attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election. In a Thursday filing to the Georgia Court of Appeals, the Fulton County District Attorney's Office said it intended "to petition the Supreme Court of …

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Ireland wanted to build data centres for the AI boom. Now they fear blackouts
4 days, 1 hour ago

Ireland wanted to build data centres for the AI boom. Now they fear blackouts

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Ireland’s Environmental Protection Agency has also flagged concerns about nitrogen oxide pollution from data centres’ on-site generators …

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Oklahoma cops arrest suspect who killed elderly couple then tie him to another homicide from hours earlier
4 days, 2 hours ago

Oklahoma cops arrest suspect who killed elderly couple then tie him to another homicide from hours earlier

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Richard Dewayne Chambers, 42, of Oklahoma City, was …

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Pecos train crash: One dead and four injured as carriages derail after hitting tractor
4 days, 2 hours ago

Pecos train crash: One dead and four injured as carriages derail after hitting tractor

The Independent  

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Ireland embraced data centers that the AI boom needs. Now they’re consuming too much of its energy
4 days, 3 hours ago

Ireland embraced data centers that the AI boom needs. Now they’re consuming too much of its energy

Associated Press  

CLONDALKIN, Ireland — Dozens of massive data centers humming at the outskirts of Dublin are consuming more electricity than all of the urban homes in Ireland and starting to wear out the warm welcome that brought them here. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print Dublin’s data center limits Twenty-six-year-old activist Darragh Adelaide lives …

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Moment drink driving mother flips her Suzuki SUV during morning rush hour - while two of her children and a dog are in the back
4 days, 5 hours ago

Moment drink driving mother flips her Suzuki SUV during morning rush hour - while two of her children and a dog are in the back

Daily Mail  

This is the shocking moment a drink driving mother more than three times the legal limit flipped her car with two children and a dog in the back. Gemma Trevair was behind the wheel of the Suzuki S-Cross during rush hour when she crashed into the front of a shop on Front Street, Wingate, County Durham, and flipped the car …

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L.A. was once ‘Drag City.’ Now the area’s last speedway is closing after a night of muscle car mayhem
4 days, 15 hours ago

L.A. was once ‘Drag City.’ Now the area’s last speedway is closing after a night of muscle car mayhem

LA Times  

The two racers idled in their vehicles near the starting line, one behind the other, waiting for their last chance to blast down the drag strip at Irwindale Speedway. Veteran racer Craig Rayburn brought his powerful 1969 Mercury Cougar Eliminator to the final running of Thursday Night Thunder at Irwindale Speedway’s drag strip. It hadn’t always been this way: there …

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He had a radical idea. Here’s how RaMell Ross and his team got inside ‘Nickel Boys’
4 days, 15 hours ago

He had a radical idea. Here’s how RaMell Ross and his team got inside ‘Nickel Boys’

LA Times  

Cinema’s most transcendent promise is that it can put us in another person’s shoes. Told mostly in the first-person point of view, director RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys” is an experiential — and experimental — adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel from 2019. “Nickel Boys” is Ross’ first foray into scripted fiction following his Oscar-nominated, nonlinear documentary “Hale County This Morning, …

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Dozens of people get sick after L.A. Times 101 Best Restaurants event; health officials investigating
4 days, 15 hours ago

Dozens of people get sick after L.A. Times 101 Best Restaurants event; health officials investigating

LA Times  

The Hollywood Palladium was the location of the L.A. Times 101 Best Restaurants event, where dozens of people reported feeling ill after eating oysters. Health officials are investigating a possible norovirus outbreak after dozens of people became sick after eating raw oysters at the L.A. Times 101 Best Restaurants event. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health confirmed that …

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Accident or homicide? Medical rulings in arrest-related deaths can dictate what happens to police
5 days, 3 hours ago

Accident or homicide? Medical rulings in arrest-related deaths can dictate what happens to police

Associated Press  

Sitting alone in her car, Jen Dold was crying too hard to drive. “No sweeping it under the rug.” Jen Dold, whose brother, Alex Dold, lived with schizophrenia and died after a 2017 encounter with sheriff’s deputies and police officers, sits for a portrait at her home Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024, in Edmonds, Wash. Jen Dold, whose brother, Alex Dold, …

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1 dead, 9 injured in Baltimore county shooting, fiery crash
5 days, 8 hours ago

1 dead, 9 injured in Baltimore county shooting, fiery crash

Deccan Chronicle  

A shooting and related fiery car crash on Tuesday night in a suburban area north of Baltimore left one person dead and nine injured, police said. Gunshots were reported across a neighborhood near the site where the car ultimately crashed outside a closed funeral home, according to Baltimore County Police Chief Robert McCullough. Describing the event as “an ongoing, rolling …

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