Emily Elena Dugdale
Former Senior Reporter, Criminal Justice
(she/her)
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Tens of thousands of fans and friends celebrated the life of the slain rapper at a memorial service at Staples Center and on the streets of Los Angeles.
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Plants are returning to areas in the Santa Monica Mountains that were devastated by wildfires last winter.
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Smokers, beware.. The L.A. County Board of Supervisors voted today to expand the smoking ban that passed last October.
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Hundreds of drivers turned off their Uber apps and chanted and waved colorful signs that said “Better pay now.”
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You might not like sirens, but they’re pretty crucial. It’s been 50 years since the beginning of the modern Emergency Management System. L.A. was an early pioneer, and they celebrated that on Thursday at the LA County Fire Museum.
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Scientists have some bad news - there’s a one in four chance mountain lions living in the Santa Monica and Santa Ana mountains could be extinct in 50 years.
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When it's raining, LA's roads are slick. So naturally there'd be more accidents when the roads are full, right? Wrong. Researchers from USC's data journalism project Crosstown recently crunched traffic and weather data and found some weird patterns.
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Horses are back on the track at Santa Anita Park. Officials closed it down this week to study it after nineteen horses died in just two months.
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Experts are out today at Santa Anita Park this week to examine the one-mile track that has been the scene of 21 horse deaths in just ten weeks.
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The college admissions scandal continues to reverberate around local schools like USC. Students who didn’t have a lot of resources growing up but managed to get into the school are feeling particularly burned.
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