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'Sobering': LA's Black, Latino kids under 5 are far behind on COVID-19 vaccinations

LOS ANGELES — Black and Latino children in Los Angeles County younger than 5 have COVID-19 vaccination rates in the single digits, reflecting a broad trend nationwide that has public health experts concerned and seeking ways to boost those figures.

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California’s biggest environmental cleanup leaves lead contamination and frustration

LOS ANGELES — California’s largest and most expensive environmental cleanup has failed to properly remove lead pollution from some homes and neighborhoods near a notorious battery recycler in southeast Los Angeles County, leaving residents at continued risk, a Los Angeles Times investigation shows.

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LA County-run hospitals could expand free and discounted care

LOS ANGELES — Hospitals run by Los Angeles County could make free care available to more of their financially strapped patients under a new proposal aimed at expanding relief from medical bills.

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LA County sheriff creates new office to 'eradicate all deputy gangs'

LOS ANGELES — Facing long-standing allegations of “appalling” conditions inside the county’s jails and violent deputy “gangs” operating on its streets, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna on Wednesday announced the appointment of a former federal prosecutor to oversee a new office designed to combat those problems within the department.

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New deputy 'gang' forming in LA County Sheriff's Department, lawsuit alleges

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies are forming a new "gang" in the agency's East L.A. station, according to a deputy who alleges in a lawsuit he was abused when he refused to join the group.

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LA County passes gun control measures after mass shootings

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a series of gun control measures Tuesday on the heels of last month's mass shooting in Monterey Park, just 8 miles away from the boardroom.

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Los Angeles firefighters to join rescue efforts in Turkey and Syria after massive quake

LOS ANGELES — Dozens of specially trained Los Angeles County firefighters are headed to Turkey and Syria to assist in search-and-rescue operations after Monday's massive magnitude 7.8 earthquake, which devastated the region near the two countries' border.

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On third anniversary of COVID’s arrival, LA County ‘in a much better place’

LOS ANGELES — Three years to the day after reporting its first confirmed case of COVID-19, Los Angeles County is “in a much better place” in the pandemic — hard-won progress a top health official attributed to vaccination, community immunity resulting from the virus’ rampant spread and development of tools…

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Monterey Park mass killer may have been building homemade silencers for guns as police find ammo in search

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said this week that there were “hundreds of rounds” found at the suspected shooter’s home

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January storms leave LA County flood-control dams at risk of overflowing

LOS ANGELES — Now that the shock of a series of January storms has worn off, Los Angeles County officials face a herculean chore: Five reservoirs along south-facing San Gabriel Mountain slopes are filled with so much debris and soupy mud that they pose a flood risk to the communities…

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Editorial: Monterey Park shooting is horrific, but all too familiar

“Who walks into a dance hall and guns down 20 people?” Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna asked, hours after 10 people were shot dead and at least 10 more were wounded Saturday night in Monterey Park.

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Terror at Monterey Park dance studio: What we know about mass shooting

MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — On Saturday afternoon, thousands were celebrating the Lunar New Year festival in Monterey Park, a city at the heart of Los Angeles County’s Chinese community.

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10 people killed, 10 injured in mass shooting at California dance studio

MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — Ten people were killed and at least 10 others were injured when a gunman opened fire at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park on Saturday night, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.

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Kamala Harris visits LA stormwater system in wake of record-setting rains

LOS ANGELES — Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday joined state and local leaders at a Los Angeles County site working to increase groundwater, where they touted ongoing efforts to improve drought resiliency across California and neighboring states.

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Coroner says actor Leslie Jordan died of natural causes

The Los Angeles County coroner's office says “Will & Grace" actor Leslie Jordan died from natural causes and not from a car accident last year

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Fresh details about death of Lisa Marie Presley emerge as coroner calls for further investigation

The Los Angeles County Coroner has requested "more investigation" into the death of Lisa Marie Presley, who died after a suspected cardiac arrest at her home last week.

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LA County COVID-19 deaths hit new winter high. Why?

LOS ANGELES — The number of COVID-19 deaths reported weekly in Los Angeles County has hit the highest point of the season, underscoring the continued deadly risks of a disease that has ripped through the community for nearly three years.

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Dying for your high: The untold exploitation and misery in America’s weed industry

Sareth Sin, 67, died upright, seated in a plastic chair, on Christmas Day. He was asphyxiated by fumes from the generator he ran to chase the desert chill out of a cannabis greenhouse on the eastern edge of Los Angeles County.

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Long after LA's mental health chief quit, pressures he faced still shape the agency

LOS ANGELES — A 2017 trip to observe a celebrated Italian mental health system made believers out of a group of Los Angeles County and nonprofit leaders.

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Los Angeles bank agrees to $31M settlement over racial bias in home loans

City National Bank has agreed to pay $31 million to settle a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit alleging racial bias in its home mortgage lending in Los Angeles County.

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Southern California faces another day of punishing rains: ‘We are definitely not out of the woods yet’

LOS ANGELES — Following a wave of punishing rains that forced evacuations on the Central Coast and flooded parts of Los Angeles County, Southern California was facing another round of storms Tuesday, with much of the region still under flood, high wind and high surf advisories.

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Son of director Franco Zeffirelli slams 'Romeo and Juliet' child sex abuse lawsuit

The son of "Romeo and Juliet" director Franco Zeffirelli has responded to a child sexual abuse lawsuit recently submitted in Los Angeles County by the film's stars, Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey.

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LA County Sheriff's deputies fatally shoot man at site of deadly stabbing

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies shot and killed a man Sunday morning at an intersection near Santa Clarita where a woman was fatally stabbed hours earlier.

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Video shows LA County deputy threatened rapper, authorities now investigating

A New Year's Eve incident in which a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy pulled a gun on a man in a parked car and threatened to shoot him is now the subject of an internal investigation.

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After storm slams Southern California, here are the risks that remain

LOS ANGELES — Another menacing storm front moved through Southern California early Thursday, bringing rain, flash flood concerns, strong winds and dangerous surf as the region was still reeling from a moisture-rich atmospheric river that pounded the entire state in recent days.

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