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  • FILE – People leave the entrance to the Amazon San Bernardino Fulfillment Center, October 29, 2013 in San Bernardino, Calif. California has hit Amazon with two separate fines totaling $5.9 million, alleging the e-commerce giant violated a law designed to protect warehouse employees from requirements that they work so quickly that it risks their safety, officials said Tuesday, June 18, 2024. (AP Photo/David McNew, File)Politics

    California fines Amazon $5.9 million, saying it worked warehouse employees so hard with ‘undisclosed quotas’ it put their safety at risk

    By Christopher Weber and The Associated Press
  • Workers clean up broken glass inside a damaged downtown restaurant after a severe thunderstorm, Thursday, May 16, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)Environment

    Severe Texas storms knock out power to 900,000 Houston businesses and homes and blow out hundreds of office and hotel windows

    By David J. Phillip, Lisa Baumann, and others
  • Scott SibellaFinance

    Executive on probation for giving freebies to a high roller and letting him gamble millions

    By Christopher Weber, Ken Ritter, and others
  • Resorts World Las Vegas President Scott Sibella speaks at the Resorts World Boring Company station, July 11, 2022, in Las Vegas. Former top executive at Las Vegas Strip casinos, Sibella, faces a judge in Los Angeles on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, and possible federal prison time after pleading guilty to violating federal anti-money laundering rules. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)Finance

    MGM Grand ex-president to be sentenced in money laundering case after admitting he allowed illegal bookmaker to gamble millions at Las Vegas casino

    By Christopher Weber, Ken Ritter, and others
  • Campus protestsPolitics

    Hundreds of college students arrested nationwide as Gaza protests escalate into social justice crisis

    By Christopher Weber, Carolyn Thompson, and others
  • Travelers at Oakland International AirportPolitics

    San Francisco really doesn’t want its name on Oakland airport. Oakland officials vote to do it anyway.

    By Olga R. Rodriguez, Christopher Weber, and others
  • Angela ChaoLeadership

    Angela Chao, shipping CEO and sister-in-law to Mitch McConnell, was intoxicated when she drove into a pond and died, police say

    By Christopher Weber and The Associated Press
  • FILE – This aerial still image from video provided by KTLA shows law enforcement vehicles where several people were found shot to death in El Mirage, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. Prosecutors filed murder charges Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, against five suspects in the fatal shootings of six men at a remote dirt crossroads in the Southern California desert after what investigators said was a dispute over marijuana. (KTLA via AP, File)Health

    6 killings in likely cannabis dispute highlight risk in California’s illegal pot market—despite years of legal sales

    By MIchael R. Blood, Christopher Weber, and others
  • Plane Crash CaliforniaLifestyle

    Retired dentist who spent years building a small airplane traumatized after man he sold it to for $100,000 crashes into the ocean

    By Christopher Weber and The Associated Press
  • Judy BranfmanFinance

    Venice Beach artist’s small photo series balloons into series tackling urban crisis: ‘Where Has All The (affordable) Housing Gone?’

    By Christopher Weber and The Associated Press
  • Two women hug and a man looks on with a highway in the background.Environment

    Hawaii’s governor wants to suspend the housing market ‘to make sure that no one is victimized from a land grab’

    By Bobby Caina Calvan, Christopher Weber, and others
  • Leslie Van HoutenLifestyle

    Manson family member Leslie Van Houten leaves prison after serving over 50 years of life sentence

    By Christopher Weber and The Associated Press
  • PARK CITY, UTAH – MARCH 28: Actress Gwyneth Paltrow listens in court during her civil trial over a collision with another skier at the Park City District Courthouse on March 28, 2023, in Park City, Utah. Retired optometrist Terry Sanderson is suing Paltrow for $300,000, claiming she recklessly crashed into him during a run at Deer Valley Resort in Park City, Utah in 2016. Paltrow has countersued, claiming Sanderson was uphill of her and crashed into her back. (Photo by Jeffrey D. Allred-Pool/Getty Images)Lifestyle

    Gwyneth Paltrow’s trial hinges on the ‘skier code’—informal rules that dictate who has the right of way on the slopes

    By Christopher Weber, Sam Metz, and others
  • Sylvia Garcia, from Bassett Street Elementary, talks as she and other teachers attend a Los Angeles Unified School District and Service Employees International Union 99 (SEIU) rally in Grand Park in downtown Los Angels, Wednesday, March 15, 2023. Tens of thousands of workers in the Los Angeles Unified School District are expected to walk off the job Tuesday, March 21, over stalled contract talks, and they will be joined in solidarity by teachers for a planned three-day strike that will shut down the nation’s second-largest school system. (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times via AP)Success

    Tens of thousands of LA school workers are going on a 3-day strike for better wages and more staffing

    By Christopher Weber and The Associated Press
  • Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon, at podium stands by a photo on display of TV producer Eric Weinberg during a news conference to announce sexual assault charges against Weinberg on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Christopher Weber)Leadership

    Top Hollywood producer behind ‘Scrubs’ and ‘Californication’ charged with sexually assaulting 5 women that he lured to photo shoots

    By Christopher Weber and The Associated Press