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Despite Tuesday’s green map from the South Coast Air Quality Management District, showing air quality in Los Angeles County was “good,” people should continue to take precautions outdoors, as a windblown dust and ash advisory remains in effect until Wednesday evening.“In most situations (the AQMD map) provides the whole picture. This is sort of a unique situation where we have a lot of ash down at levels where people live that could pose a health issue and won’t show up on our AQI map,” said Dr. Scott Epstein, air quality assessment manager at AQMD.So the agency added a disclaimer above…

By ALLEN G. BREED and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTHFlush with her $1.25 winnings at the bingo tables, Sharon Tanner retired to a room off the dining hall to discuss the top worry for the residents council at her senior living community: what to do about people leaving their laundry in the washing machines and dryers.Dinner service at the Terraces at Park Marino in Pasadena was about half over, and residents were gathering in the lobby for the night’s movie feature: “Scent of a Woman.” Tanner and Carlene Sutherland, the council vice president and secretary, were discussing the laundry scofflaws when something caught…

By WILL WEISSERTWASHINGTON — In an announcement postponed by the Los Angeles wildfires, President Joe Biden on Tuesday designated two sites in California as national monuments that will honor Native American tribes while shielding picturesque mountains and deserts from mining and energy development.Biden made the designations at an event at the White House, a week after — and on the other side of the country from — how he’d originally planned to do so, with a speech in California’s Eastern Coachella Valley.The president landed in California on Jan. 6, but made it as far as Los Angeles before high winds…

The UCLA football team was already losing talent and experience at the linebacker position as Kain Medrano and Ale Kaho ended their final seasons of college football, but Carson Schwesinger’s decision to declare for the NFL draft is the catalyst for a near-complete rebuild.There is talent in stock though, and it will be led by a familiar face: associate head coach and inside linebackers coach Scott White.A defensive analyst for the Bruins last season, White was with the program from 2011-2014, serving as quality control for the defense and special teams as well as a linebackers and special teams coach.“Coach White’s…

A fire destroyed a building in downtown San Bernardino and spread to a nearby strip mall on Monday night, Jan. 13, prompting evacuations.Crews responded around 11:15 p.m. to the fire near G and Congress streets, where they found the blaze spreading quickly through a large cabinet-manufacturing business with immediate exposure to a nearby strip mall, according to the San Bernardino County Fire Department.Firefighters evacuated the structures and attacked the fire from inside until it became too dangerous because of the fire’s growth and the compromised structure. The blaze grew to neighboring businesses and an exterior storage area, lighting hundreds of…

By MEG KINNARDHouse Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday ordered that flags at the U.S. Capitol be raised to their full height on Inauguration Day, pausing a 30-day flag-lowering order following the death of former President Jimmy Carter.The Republican leader’s decision means that President-elect Donald Trump will not take the oath of office for his second term under a half-staff flag, a prospect that he had previously complained about.It mirrors actions taken in recent days by some Republican governors who have announced that flags in their states would be raised on Inauguration Day to mark Trump’s second term.Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey…

INGELWOOD — The reclamation of Kawhi Leonard continues at a slow, deliberate pace. And that’s fine for everyone involved, especially the Clippers superstar.Leonard recently returned to the lineup after missing the first 34 games this season, and the team has managed his comeback by taking it one day, one game, one box to check at a time. The final step is extended minutes.So far, Leonard has been handcuffed to playing roughly 20 minutes per game over three contests. Call it load management. Or a player going through a delayed preseason entry into the season.“I’m taking my time,” Leonard said after…

A Los Angeles couple is suing JetBlue after narrowly escaping being crushed when a watermelon-size block of ice allegedly fell from a commercial airliner and smashed through the roof of their Inglewood home, landing inches away from their bed, according to court papers obtained Tuesday.The ice chunk allegedly fell around 8 p.m. on Jan. 1, 2024, from a JetBlue Airbus traveling from New York City’s JFK International Airport to LAX, forcing the couple to move for fear of a repeat incident, according to the complaint filed in L.A. federal court.After the near-miss, homeowners Michael Reese and Leah Ferrarini would “cringe…

More than 75,500 Southern California Edison customers are without power in LA, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties as of Tuesday morning on Jan. 14. That number includes more than 60,000 public safety power shutoffs (PSPS) in the region due to wind related damages, according to an SCE spokesperson.In LA County, where the Eaton and Palisades fires have ravaged communities, 22,202 SCE customers remain affected by power shutoffs as of noon on Tuesday.“Numbers do change throughout the day, just because we do aim to implement or activate these PSPS in those areas that are seeing the strongest…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN, Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday announced plans to create a new agency called the External Revenue Service to collect tariffs and other revenues from foreign nations.“We will begin charging those that make money off of us with Trade, and they will start paying,” Trump said Tuesday on his social media site, Truth Social. He compared his planned creation to the Internal Revenue Service, which is the nation’s domestic tax collector.The creation of a new agency requires an act of Congress, and Republicans hold the majority of both the House and the Senate.Trump, who…