Clara Harter is a breaking news reporter at the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she covered politics and education for the L.A. Daily News. While at the Daily News, she published a series on fentanyl addiction that won a first-place investigative journalism award from the L.A. Press Club. Harter majored in political science and Middle Eastern studies at Columbia University. She loves surfing and, when not reporting, can most likely be found in the ocean.
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A man carjacked a sheriff’s bucket truck Wednesday while a deputy was precariously positioned high above the ground in the bucket, authorities said.
One man has been arrested and two suspects remain at large after a transgender shopkeeper in Westlake was assaulted in a string of hate crime attacks, authorities said.
Storms brought significant thunder and lightning to the Southland. Every part of L.A. was within earshot of thunder on Tuesday, said one meteorologist.
A low pressure system will skim the Southern California coast Tuesday through Wednesday, bringing the chance of dry lightning and rip currents.
Yankees supporters are accustomed to Dodger Stadium being hostile ground, but being hit by a chunk of concrete falling from the stadium ceiling is beyond what fans steel themselves to encounter.
Firefighters are battling a brush fire in the hillside terrain of Pala, prompting evacuations in northern San Diego County, authorities said.
Federal agents arrested 36 Chinese and Taiwanese citizens accused of being in the country illegally in a raid at an underground nightclub, authorities said.
Los Angeles ranks No. 1 in the nation when it comes to dog attacks on U.S. Postal Service workers, with 77 incidents reported last year.
After a brutal spring of toxic algae blooms turning sea lions into sick, snarling seaside hazards, anxious beachgoers can breathe a sigh of relief as experts say the worst of the poisoning is over.