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A California Highway Patrol officer stops a motorist in Anaheim, Calif., April 23, 2020. State authorities were investigating Monday, Nov. 20, 2023, after a California Highway Patrol officer shot and killed a man on a Los Angeles area freeway during a struggle over the weekend that was recorded on video. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)

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California Highway Patrol officer fatally shoots man walking on freeway, prompting investigation
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER - Associated Press
Mon,11/20/23-4:40PM , 69 Reads
LOS ANGELES (AP) — State authorities were investigating Monday after a California Highway Patrol officer shot and killed a man over the weekend in the middle of a Los Angeles area freeway during a struggle recorded on video.
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Writer and activist Judy Branfman stands by a map she created as part of a gallery installation at Beyond Baroque gallery, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023, in the Venice Beach area of Los Angeles. The gallery installation offers a unique art-meets-data look at the eviction crisis in the Venice Beach neighborhood. The exhibit titled "Where Has All The (affordable) Housing Gone?" gathers maps, photos, statistics, paintings, poems and the stories of people who have been evicted from their homes, including the artist behind the project. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

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Lack of affordable housing in Los Angeles' Venice Beach neighborhood inspires activism and art
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER - Associated Press
Fri,11/03/23-11:04PM , 161 Reads
LOS ANGELES (AP) — As more and more of her friends and neighbors found themselves priced out of rental units in Venice Beach, Judy Branfman began photographing the dozens of houses, bungalows and apartments being sold, renovated and then relisted at double or triple the cost.
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Candles and flowers are placed along along the Pacific Coast Highway, after a crash that killed four college students and injured two others, in Malibu, Calif., on Oct. 19, 2023. The 22-year-old driver of the BMW that struck and killed the four Pepperdine University students last week pleaded not guilty, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023, to four counts of murder, and prosecutors said he was speeding at more than 100 mph moments before the crash. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

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Driver in Malibu crash that killed 4 college students pleads not guilty to murder, held on $4M bail
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER - Associated Press
Wed,10/25/23-9:43AM , 97 Reads
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The 22-year-old driver of a BMW that struck and killed four Pepperdine University students in Malibu, California, last week pleaded not guilty Wednesday to four counts of murder, and prosecutors said he was speeding at more than 100 mph moments before the crash.
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Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten released from prison a half-century after grisly killings
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Tue,07/11/23-2:54PM , 122 Reads
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, a former homecoming princess who at 19 helped carry out the shocking killings of a wealthy Los Angeles couple at the direction of the violent and manipulative cult
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