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LA deputy mayor pleads guilty to calling in fake, anti-Israel bomb threat
Los Angeles’ deputy mayor for public safety has pleaded guilty to calling in a fake, anti-Israel bomb threat to himself in ...
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Southern California utility to pay $82 million settlement in lawsuit stemming from huge 2020 wildfire
A California utility has agreed to pay the federal government $82.5 million stemming from an enormous 2020 wildfire that ...
Pacific Coast Highway reopens months after devastating California wildfires in time for Memorial Day
Nearly six months after wildfires erupted in Southern California, closing the Pacific Coast Highway in Los Angeles and ...
Apodaca: Remembering those who didn’t make it home
Wallace “Wally” Ziegler was an Army medic in the Vietnam War. The Laguna Beach local is one of those who survived to tell us ...
Urban fires can mean long trips for helicopters to get water. One firefighter had a better idea
Helicopters are essential for firefighting. They can drop 1,000 gallons of water at once — some much more. That’s far more ...
Southern California Edison to pay $82.5 million to settle claims over 2020 Bobcat Fire damages
Southern California Edison (SCE), a unit of utility Edison International, agreed on Friday to pay $82.5 million to settle ...
Allee Willis, who wrote the ‘Friends’ theme, celebrated with pop-up book
The Legendary House of Atomic Kitch’ pop-up book celebrates kitsch, creativity and the songwriter of Earth, Wind and Fire’s ...
‘Father of CMBS’ Ethan Penner to run for governor of California
Ethan Penner, known as the "father of CMBS," has indicated he is running for governor of California. Penner criticized current Governor Gavin Newsom in an interview with The Real Deal, focusing on ...