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Vice President Kamala Harris delivers a concession speech for the 2024 presidential election, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, on the campus of Howard University in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

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Los Angeles, California, July 13, 1981 - HILLSIDE STRANGLER - Angelo Buono, "Hillside Strangler" suspect, smiles as he listens to motion by the deputy district attorney to dismiss murder charges against him. With him is one of his attorneys, Kathy Mader. Photo Credit: R.L. Oliver / Los Angeles Times

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Hermilio Franco slept with this gun beneath his mattress.
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Billie Jean King celebrates the unveiling of her bronze statue at Cal State LA with hundreds of current Golden Eagles student-athletes. King attended the university from 1961 to '64, at the dawn of what would be a Hall of Fame tennis career.
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Law Enforcement Continues Search for Missing Mother and Child 36 year old Whisper Owen and her daughter, 8 month old Sandra McCarty, were last seen on Tuesday, July 15, 2025. They were traveling in a silver 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer with a CA license plate of 9LKH008. The SUV has damage to its driver's side headlight. The vehicle left the city of Fresno on July 15 around 5:00 pm. A traffic camera last captured it shortly after 8:00 pm in the city of Atwater, near Shaffer and Bellevue Roads. They were supposed to be heading home to Elk Grove (Sacramento County) where family members were expecting them. Whisper is described as 5'6", 145 lbs. with blue eyes and brown hair. Sandra is described as 1'10", 17 lbs. with green eyes and brown hair. No information has been discovered to explain their disappearance. If seen, dial 911.

2 weeks ago, she left a doctor’s appointment with her baby. They haven’t been found since

The ambulance carrying the body of Didarul Islam exits NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Hospital during the dignified transfer of the slain officer, who was shot and killed by a gunman earlier this evening, early Tuesday, July 29, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)

Mass shooter’s grudge against NFL: ‘Football gave me CTE’ Are youth athletes at risk?

DOWNEY, CA - JULY 16, 2025 - - Governor Gavin Newsom speaks to media about the federal government's demobilization of 2,000 National Guard members, as well as the effect of immigration raids on immigrant communities across California at the Downey Memorial Christian Church in Downey on July 16, 2025. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

Newsom signs controversial bill on solicitation of minors

California Department of Transportation vehicles are parked in front of the state Capitol, in Sacramento, Calif., Thursday, April 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Caltrans employees accused of throwing wild party with a stripper while on the clock

Woman who saved sister from drowning is found dead in California wilds two months later

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L.A. City Council bans N-word and C-word at meetings

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Vice President Kamala Harris delivers a concession speech for the 2024 presidential election, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, on the campus of Howard University in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Kamala Harris says she is not running for California governor

Former Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday she is not running for governor of California in 2026, keeping the door open for a 2028 presidential run.

U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, at podium with Akil Davis is the Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office, left, answer questions during a news conference in Los Angeles, Wednesday, June 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Trump administration maneuvers to keep Essayli as L.A.’s top federal prosecutor

Los Angeles, CA - July 29: A woman roller skates through the 2nd Street Tunnel on Tuesday, July 29, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA. The tunnel was painted white by city workers, but quickly tagged with spray paint again. (Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times)

City paints over 2nd Street Tunnel graffiti. Taggers return within hours

Painting entitled 'American Progress', by John Gast, depicting 'Manifest Destiny' (the religious belief that the United States should expand from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean in the name of God). In 1872 artist John Gast painted a popular scene of people moving west that captured the view of Americans at the time. Called 'Spirit of the Frontier' and widely distributed as an engraving portrayed settlers moving west, guided and protected by a goddess-like figure and aided by technology (railways, telegraphs), driving Native Americans and bison into obscurity. It is also important to note that angel is bringing the 'light' as witnessed on the eastern side of the painting as she travels towards the 'darkened' west.' USA, circa 1872. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)
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Arellano: With Manifest Destiny art, DHS goes hard on ‘white makes right’

LOS ANGELES, CA- MARCH 28: The Gas Company Tower (center) in downtown, Los Angeles, CA, is facing foreclosure a year after the owner, an affiliate of Brookfield Asset Management Ltd., walked away from the building. A notice of trustee's sale for the building was filed March 21 with the Los Angeles County Recorder's office, setting the stage for a foreclosure sale as soon as 90 days after the filing. Photographed on Thursday, March 28, 2024. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

L.A. County bought the Gas Company Tower for $200 million. Upgrades will cost much more

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Altadena, CA, Wednesday, Jan 8, 2025 - Steve Salinas shields from intense heat as he hoses down a neighbors rooftop on Sinaloa Ave. as the Eaton Fire continues to grow. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
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Vehicle locator data obtained by The Times show that most L.A. County fire trucks didn’t shift into west Altadena until long after fire ravaged the area. How much of the town could have been saved, residents wonder?

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, SATURDAY JULY 12, 2025 -- Professional diver Juan Heredia of Angels Recovery Dive Team, searches the Kaweah River Saturday, July. 12, 2025 for any signs of Jomarie Calasanz of Los Angeles, Calif., who was swept away in the swift waters near Paradise Creek Bridge during a Memorial Day weekend outing with her family inside Sequoia National Park. The waters during the spring runoff near the Hospital Rock picnic area of the park are cold and fast moving where Calasanz went missing. (Gary Kazanjian / For The Times)
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The river took her sister. A stranger dove in to bring her home

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. JULY 11, 2025 - Wallabies confront each other at The San Francisco Zoo on Friday, July 11, 2025 in San Francisco, Calif. (Paul Kuroda / For The Times)
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The Scott Peterson trial for the murder of his wife, Laci Peterson and their unborn child, Conner, grabbed national headlines in the early 2000s’. The Los Angeles Innocence Project has taken up his case.
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Elmer Pratt enroute to afternoon session in court at Hall of Justice.

‘Deceit, dishonesty, betrayal’: The wrongful conviction that haunted Johnnie Cochran

1990-06-22 - 'Holy Terror 'Manson tunnel LAPD crime scene photo. The railroad tunnel in which Ronald Baker was found had spooky graffiti and a dark mystique, the kind of place Valley kids dared each other to walk through at night. People called it the Manson Tunnel-the cult leader and his disciples had lived nearby at the Spahn Movie Ranch-and someone had spray-painted HOLY TERROR over the entrance.
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Detectives investigating UCLA student’s murder uncovered a stunningly personal betrayal

(Original Caption) Convicted spy Christopher Boyce is led by federal marshals at Burbank airport upon his arrival from Springfield, Massachusetts, for arraignment on charges related to his escape from Lompoc federal prison in January 1980.

How a pair of Palos Verdes altar boys grew up to be Soviet spies

Boster, Mark -- - LOS ANGELES,CA.,JUNE 9, 2009: Veteran LAPD detective Stephanie Lazarus,49, appears at the Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles for her arraignment on murder charges June 9, 2009. Lazarus is charged with the 1986 murder of Sherri Rasmussen. (Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times)

It took LAPD 23 years to identify one of their own as the culprit in this fatal love triangle

Los Angeles, CA - May 29, 1986 : Richard W. Miller (center) with his defense attorney (right) watch as the jury arrives to the Little League Park location as part of the espionage retrial. The park is located at Ohio Ave, and Sepulveda Blvd. May of 1986. ( Al Seib / Los Angeles Times )

Charged with selling state secrets to the Soviets, a bumbling FBI agent had a novel defense

(Original Caption) Only a few hours of life remaining. San Quentin, California: Pictured as she entered the San Quentin Prison gates today is Barbara Graham, 31, mother of three, who is doomed to die in the gas chamber at 10:00 am tomorrow for the 1953 murder of Mrs. Mabel Monohan, 62, of Burbank, California. A car brought her to San Quentin from the Corona, California prison. Two men convicted with her, Jack Santo, and Emmett Perkins, will be executed a few hours later in the same gas chamber.

Convicting ‘gun moll’ Barbara Graham was a famous win for L.A. prosecutors. Did they cheat?

A 1988 photo of then Glendale, CA Fire Dept. arson investigator John Orr.

He was both fire captain and prolific arsonist. His novel put him in prison

Oct. 1910: The bombed out Los Angeles Times building with poster announcing temporary locations of Times departments. On the back of this photo was written: Following the bombing, the newspaper moved its offices to a branch at 531 S. Spring St. A rival paper offered its presses to that the paper could be printed. In a box on the front page of the Times on Saturday morning Oct. 1, 1910, Harry Andrews, Managing Editor of the the Times wrote: They can kill on men and can wreck out building, but by the God above they cannot kill the Times.

Before Scopes, Clarence Darrow fought another battle. He was accused of bribing a jury

Los Angeles, CA - March 6, 1968: William Dale Archerd is interviewed by host of reporters after he hears the final verdict, in March of 1968. ( Larry Sharkey , Los Angeles Times )

His wives kept dying mysteriously. His secret poison: Insulin

Officials remove the body of actor-comedian John Belushi from a bungalow at the Chateau Marmont hotel in Los Angeles, Ca., where Belushi's body was found dead, Friday, March 5, 1982. Belushi, 33, died of an accidental drug overdose. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon)
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Flowers and candles surround a photo of 12-year-old Polly Klass in Petaluma, California, December 5, 1993 the day her body was found. On October 1, 1993, she was kidnapped at knife point during a slumber party at her mother's home and was later strangled. (NewsBase / AP)

A 12-year-old girl’s murder shook the country, inspiring far-reaching laws

ME.Dahlia/reporters.1016.7.Fowler, left(with hat), was the first reporter to arrive at the scene of LA's most famous unsolved killing, The Black Dahlia killing, on Ave., between 39th and Coliseum Streets, where the dismembered body of Elizabeth Short was found on Jan. 16, 1947. Photo Credit: RLOliver/Los Angeles Times
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CALABASAS, CA - JAN 15: Kris Jenner is photographed for the LA Powerless in Calabasas, CA on January 15, 2024. (Evan Mulling / For The Times)
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a pair of hands with a rainbow manicure pull back a curtain to reveal a group of queer people

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Los Angeles, CA - April 04: Dayanna Gamez (She/They), Mark Chavez (He/They), Iziaih Choquette (They/ Them) and Emmi Gonzalez-Soto (She/They) pose for a portrait at the L.A. LGBT Center on Thursday, April 4, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

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SAN FRANCISCO CA APRIL 18, 2024 - Nonbinary queer activists Elio Garcia (R) and Evan Johnson (L) stand for a photo at Delores Park in San Francisco, California on April 18, 2024. (Josh Edelson / For The Times)

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LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 05: Eliza, a junior at University of California, Berkeley, is photographed with a pride flag from Gender Equity on campus, at the beach near Los Angeles, CA, Friday, March 5, 2021. Eliza, who is out as gay while at school, has not come out at home and has chosen to have her identity obscured. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Americans deeply divided on issues involving queer children, poll shows

LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 05: Eliza, a junior at University of California, Berkeley, is photographed with a pride flag from Gender Equity on campus, at the beach near Los Angeles, CA, Friday, March 5, 2021. Eliza, who is out as gay while at school, has not come out at home and has chosen to have her identity obscured. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Americans deeply divided on issues involving queer children, poll shows

St. Paul, Minnesota. State capitol. Transgender Day of Visibility Rally. Activists and community members celebrate the triumphs and struggles of transgender individuals. (Photo by: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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A demonstrator waves the intersex-inclusive Pride flag during the We The People March on July 2, 2023 in Los Angeles.

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