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Manhattan DA challenges Trump's appeal of his 2024 hush money conviction

The Manhattan DA's office is urging an appellate court in New York to reject President Trump's challenges to his 2024 criminal hush money conviction.

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UC accepts record number of Californians, but some select campuses out of reach for most

UC admissions data for fall 2026 show a record number of Californians were admitted, even as acceptance rates diverged sharply between its most and least selective campuses.

Lopez: In this Hollywood courtroom, defendants are sentenced to get help, and graduations are celebrated

Among other legal matters, the mental health courts handle the cases of defendants who have a serious mental illness and have been judged incompetent to stand trial in criminal court.

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The LAPD has quietly stopped putting many public records online

According to a UCLA professor, public records related to the police department began disappearing from a Los Angeles city website last April, turning the LAPD into a "black hole of information."

State regulators crack down on polluted runoff from L.A. shopping centers, warehouses

California water regulators in Los Angeles are requiring stormwater permits for shopping centers and warehouses for the first time. Big parking lots are major contributors to stream pollution.