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Tim Arango

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14 Aug 2024
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — The downsloping gusts that begin inland and blow toward the ocean in autumn and winter bring with them warmth and dread in equal measure. They howl through the canyons of Santa Monica and whip the palm trees that line the streets of Los Angeles, driving up dust and fraying nerves.
'Devil Winds' Drive a Fire Threatening the Reagan Library
14 Aug 2024
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — The downsloping gusts that begin inland and blow toward the ocean in autumn and winter bring with them warmth and dread in equal measure. They howl through the canyons of Santa Monica and whip the palm trees that line the streets of Los Angeles, driving up dust and fraying nerves.
'Devil Winds' Drive Southern California Fires
14 Aug 2024
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — The downsloping gusts that begin inland and blow toward the ocean in autumn and winter bring with them warmth and dread in equal measure. The winds, known as the Santa Anas, loom large over the collective psyche of Southern California.
'Devil Winds' Drive Southern California Fires
14 Aug 2024
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — First there was the viral video from an airplane, where he confronted former Sen. Jeff Flake about the Republican tax bill. Then he was arrested, in his wheelchair, in the rotunda of the Russell Senate Office Building protesting the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh. And in the past few months, Democratic presidential candidates have flocked to California to sit down with him and discuss “Medicare for All.”
Ady Barkan Won't Let Dying Stop His Activism
12 Aug 2024
MONTECITO, Calif. — Rick J. Caruso was getting excited. In a few weeks, the real estate mogul’s beachside resort in Montecito would open its doors and the project, more so than his others in Los Angeles, was a personal one. The family crest is etched above the outdoor fireplace. The booths in one of the restaurants are inspired by Perino’s, a long-shuttered Hollywood eatery where Caruso hung out. The sundries shop is run by his friend Gwyneth Paltrow.
A Real Estate Mogul Seeks to Expand His Influence Over Los Angeles
12 Aug 2024
MONTECITO, Calif. — Rick J. Caruso was getting excited. In a few weeks, the real estate mogul’s beachside resort in Montecito would open its doors and the project, more so than his others in Los Angeles, was a personal one. The family crest is etched above the outdoor fireplace. The booths in one of the restaurants are inspired by Perino’s, a long-shuttered Hollywood eatery where Caruso hung out. The sundries shop is run by his friend Gwyneth Paltrow.
10 Aug 2024
LOS ANGELES — After her son, Eric, was killed by police in Los Angeles two years ago when officers mistook a water pistol he was holding for a real gun, Valerie Rivera channeled her grief into activism. She joined Black Lives Matter and lobbied the state Legislature to open to the public California’s records on police shootings, which have long been hidden.
California Has a High Rate of Police Shootings. Could a New Open-Records Law Change That?
10 Aug 2024
LOS ANGELES — After her son, Eric, was killed by police in Los Angeles two years ago when officers mistook a water pistol he was holding for a real gun, Valerie Rivera channeled her grief into activism. She joined Black Lives Matter and lobbied the state Legislature to open to the public California’s records on police shootings, which have long been hidden.
10 Aug 2024
LOS ANGELES — A police officer is shot dead in Whittier by a gang member. A mentally ill homeless man walks into a steakhouse in Ventura and stabs a man to death in front of his family. In Bakersfield, a man angry over his divorce goes on a shooting rampage, killing his ex-wife and four others.
10 May 2019
LOS ANGELES — In Courtroom 106 in downtown Los Angeles, a jury has begun hearing testimony in the long-awaited trial of a man accused of stabbing to death two women in their homes at night.
Grisly Killings Shape a Battle Over Executions
23 Apr 2019
MONTECITO, Calif. — Rick J. Caruso was getting excited. In a few weeks, the real estate mogul’s beachside resort in Montecito would open its doors and the project, more so than his others in Los Angeles, was a personal one. The family crest is etched above the outdoor fireplace. The booths in one of the restaurants are inspired by Perino’s, a long-shuttered Hollywood eatery where Caruso hung out. The sundries shop is run by his friend Gwyneth Paltrow.
A Real Estate Mogul Seeks to Expand His Influence Over Los Angeles
9 Apr 2019
LOS ANGELES — By signing an executive order, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California recently ended the threat of execution as long as he is in office for the 737 inmates on the state’s death row, the largest in the Western Hemisphere.
Democrats Rethink the Death Penalty, and Its Politics.