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Newport Beach, CA - April 25: Aerial view of the Balboa Island Ferries traveling back and forth between the Newport Peninsula and Balboa Island in Newport Beach Tuesday, April 25, 2023. The Balboa Island Ferry has operated in Newport Beach since 1919, but a new mandate handed down by the California Air Resources Board has placed its future, for the first time in little over a century of operation, up in the air. Short-run ferries, like the Balboa Island Ferry, are required to use zero-emission engines by the end of 2025 and the operators of the Ferry cannot afford to convert the boats. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho, center, speaks during a news conference on Thursday, March 12, 2026, at the Sacramento County Sheriff's Headquarters in Old Foothill Farms. Ho joined, from left, Sheriff Jim Cooper, Assistant Sheriff Salvador Robles and Undersheriff Mike Ziegler to call for reform to California's Elderly Parole Program in response to the planned release of Gregory Vogelsang, pictured on the poster. Kate Wolffe kwolffe@sacbee.com
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Dana Williamson, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s former chief of staff, leaves the Robert T. Matsui United States Courthouse in Sacramento after being arrested in a federal public corruption probe involving multiple counts of bank and wire fraud on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025.

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Los Angeles, CA - September 09: Former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa speaks to reporters during Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass' formal endorsement of him for California Governor outside the LA Sentinel newspaper office in Los Angeles Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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EL SEGUNDO, CA, MAY 20, 2025: Beach goers enjoy Dockwiler State Beach in El Segundo on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

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LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 01: The Progress Pride Flag flies over the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration for the first time in downtown on Thursday, June 1, 2023 in Los Angeles, CA. L.A. County Supervisors Janice Hahn, Hilda Solis, Kathryn Barger and Lindsey Horvath will join county Assessor Jeff Prang, and Sister Tootie Toot of the group the L.A. Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to raise the Progress Pride Flag over the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration. It will mark the first time a pride flag has flown over a county building. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

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MT BALDY, CA, FEBRUARY 26, 2026: Friends Nicky Iriti, Moenau Montagnon, and Tevaihau Ducret, from left, of Tahiti, enjoy the sun drenched deck at Top of the Notch restaurant while visiting Mt. Baldy on Thursday, February 26, 2026. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)
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BERKELEY, CA, FEBRUARY 19, 2026: James B. Milliken, University of California's 22nd president, is photographed at UC Berkeley's Hearst Memorial Mining Building on Thursday, February 19, 2026.(Christina House / Los Angeles Times)
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PALM SPRINGS, CA - APRIL 04: Banners in downtown Palm Springs show support for Canadians. The city is a popular tourist draw for Canadian snowbirds but many are worried about traveling to the United States because of Trump's immigration and border policies. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
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Los Angeles, CA - January 27, 2026: A pedestrian walks past the previous location of Sun Packing, a clothing exporter in the Fashion District on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026 in Los Angeles, CA. In May 2024, seven men wearing masks and body armor and carrying assault rifles stormed into Sun Packing, a clothing exporter in the Fashion District, and shot dead Eduardo Perez Basurto. Police have charged 12 suspects with planning and carrying out the heist. Two have since turned up dead. (Kayla Bartkowski/ Los Angeles Times)
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Iva Toguri D'Aquino, Tokyo Rose of the Japanese propaganda "Zero Hour" broadcasts which were beamed to American troops in the Pacific during the war, seems in a pensive mood as she looks through the bars of her cell in Yokohama, Japan, Oct. 28, 1945. Born in Los Angeles, 29 years ago to Japanese parents, she is awaiting trial for treason against the United States. (AP Photo)

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Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson starts a Bible-reading marathon at Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, June 28, 1931. The contest will continue through July 1, with what is said to be the largest Bible in the world being used by contestants. (AP Photo)
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MONTEREY PARK-CA-DECEMBER 9, 2013: Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca faces the media during a news conference in response to an announcement of the F.B.I. arrests of 17 sworn members of the Sheriff's Department in connetion with a federal probe into activities at county jails at the Department Headquarters in Monterey Park on Monday, December 9, 2013. (Christina House / For The Times)

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FILE - In this June 5, 1968, file photo, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy addresses campaign workers moments before being shot in Los Angeles. At his side are his wife, Ethel, and his California campaign manager, Jesse Unruh, speaker of the California Assembly. Prosecutors for the first time are not opposing the release of Sirhan Sirhan. The 77-year-old prisoner on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, faces his 16th parole hearing for fatally shooting Kennedy in 1968. (AP Photo/Dick Strobel, File)
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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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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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(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.

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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)

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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 )

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