The lone adult charged in connection with the Hollywood Hills killing of rap artist Pop Smoke in 2020 was sentenced on Friday, Feb. 21, to 29 years in state prison. Corey Walker, age 19 at the time of the killing, had pleaded guilty on Feb. 5 in downtown Los Angeles to voluntary manslaughter and two…
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Home prices weakened across Southern California as 2025 started, with only one local market – Orange County – showing rising prices in January. My trusty spreadsheet examined intriguing indexes from First American Data & Analytics, which tracks four local housing markets. These yardsticks follow overall pricing patterns for single-family homes, dividing each market into cost…
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Los Angeles Public Library collection The tile hunters of Altadena have saved at least eight boxes (and counting) of historic and architecturally-significant tiles from fireplaces around town, in many cases all that’s left of homes leveled by the devastating Eaton fire. The majority of tiles that Cliff Douglas, Eric Garland, Stanley Zucker and company have…
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The world’s first Encanto ride set to debut at Walt Disney World in Florida offers a glimpse of what the future could hold for the Disneyland resort over the next couple decades under a reimagined long-term vision for the Anaheim theme park resort district. An Encanto-themed land was pitched as a possible project for a…
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Within days after the ruinous Eaton Fire swept through Altadena and Pasadena, Cliff Douglas chanced upon a mission. The masonry contractor was checking on a job site in Altadena when he noticed the chimneys standing alone among a landscape of rubble. Rising above one otherwise leveled home was a Batchelder-tiled fireplace. Intact. Douglas knew the…
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and PAUL WISEMAN, AP Economics Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — An idea first proposed on social media has bubbled up to the White House and received President Donald Trump’s enthusiastic endorsement: Take some of the savings from billionaire Elon Musk’s drive to cut government spending and return it to taxpayers. “I love it,”…
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By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Billionaire Elon Musk appeared at a conservative gathering outside Washington waving a chainsaw in the air, showing openness to auditing the Federal Reserve and accusing Democrats of “treason.” Musk, the Tesla CEO who has become perhaps President Donald Trump’s most influential adviser, spoke Thursday about his…
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By JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press LONDON (AP) — As the U.S. and Russia push ahead — so far without Ukraine at the table – on talks to end the war, political and military leaders in Europe are fleshing out details of a plan for European forces to help ensure Moscow doesn’t attack again. After months…
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By NICOLE WINFIELD ROME (AP) — Pope Francis’ condition isn’t life-threatening, but he’s not out of danger, his medical team said Friday, as the 88-year-old pontiff marked his first week in a hospital with pneumonia on top of chronic bronchitis. Francis’ doctors delivered their first in-person update on the pope’s condition, saying that he will…
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Huntington Beach‘s councilmembers said there will be an election over two ballot initiatives seeking to counter controversial actions taken by the City Council over the last two years concerning the city libraries, but they did not order a date when that election might occur. The two questions — whether to repeal a children’s library book…
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