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Learn more: vist.ly/5ifb6 Automated speed cameras have arrived in Long Beach, and they’re scheduled to begin issuing tickets soon. ✍️ Jacob Sisneros | Long Beach Post 📸 Thomas R. Cordova / Long Beach Post

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Check it out: vist.ly/5if59 The 78th Emmy Awards air Monday night, hosted by Law & Order: SVU star Mariska Hargitay. ✍️ Clare Lombardo | NPR 📸 Caroline Brehman / AP/Invision

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Learn more: vist.ly/5iew3 In less than two years, the Olympics and Paralympics will take over Los Angeles for the summer of 2028, temporarily transforming the city and the region around it. ✍️ Libby Rainey 📸 Emma McIntyre / Getty Images North America

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Take N’ Taste — a sandwich business based in Burbank — offers variety of options, including classics like melts and dips, and delivers to locals from a home kitchen. Here's how to get one of their sandwiches. 🔗: vist.ly/5i8t3 ✍️ Manny Valladares 📸 Courtesy Ashley Childs

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L.A. Comedian Jenny Yang has been traveling across the country turning immigrant grocery stores into comedy hubs. Now she’s back in L.A getting ready to start a mini-residency in Highland Park. 🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5i8ne ✍️ Gillian Morán Pérez 📸 Torre Catalano

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Lineage Logistics sued a solar power provider and its contractor Thursday, blaming them for the fire that destroyed its cold storage facility and plagued Boyle Heights. 🔗 Find out more: vist.ly/5i8gq ✍️ Christopher Damien | The LA Local 📸 Brian Feinzeimer/The LA Local

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At Beit T’Shuvah, a unique Jewish institution on the border of L.A. and Culver City that provides treatment to people recovering from addiction. 🔗 Read the story: vist.ly/5i78j ✍️ Ezra Salkin 📸 Ezra Salkin/LAist

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The Orange County District Attorney’s Office is hosting a buyback event Sunday where people can exchange their e-bikes and e-motorcycles for up to $1,000 in gift cards. 🔗 More details: vist.ly/5i764 ✍️ Jill Replogle 📸 Jill Replogle/LAist

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That ocean breeze is just not cutting it in schools in Torrance and Long Beach as Southern California reels from a heat wave. 🔗 Find out more: vist.ly/5i628 ✍️ Yusra Farzan 📸 Frederic J. Brown/AFP

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For 16 years, Carlos Ortez, 64, has opened the doors of his restaurant, Un Solo Sol, near Mariachi Plaza. 🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5i6zj ✍️ Laura Anaya-Morga | Boyle Heights Beat 📸 Andrew Lopez/Boyle Heights Beat

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An appeals court issued a ruling Friday that strikes down a federal government effort to block a lower court’s order requiring the construction of 2,550 new housing units on the VA campus in West Los Angeles. 🔗: vist.ly/5i6uw ✍️ David Wagner 📸 Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

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Hollywood's iconic mountain lion is getting its own statue at Griffith Park. P-22 was a fixture in the park before his death in 2022. The installation of P-22's bronze statue will be announced in the future. 🎥 Kyle Chrise, Joshua Letona

A quarter century after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a politically and culturally divided US is commemorating a day of violence, loss and heroism that altered the trajectory of the nation. 🔗 Read the story: vist.ly/5i6qh ✍️ Bill Chappell, Brian Mann | NPR 📸 Mario Tama/Getty Images

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Laguna Beach is now in a local emergency because of coastal erosion, city officials announced Thursday. 🔗: vist.ly/5i6mz ✍️ Makenna Cramer 📸 Don Leach/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

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Lawmakers and the governor failed to extend a state grant program that helped schools upgrade their air conditioner systems. 🔗 Read the story: vist.ly/5i6jk ✍️ Alejandra Reyes-Velarde | CalMatters 📸 Mariana Dale/LAist

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California teens will be barred from “addictive” social media products and limited in their interactions with chatbots under two of the 13 bills signed into law. 🔗 Find out more: vist.ly/5i6gp ✍️ Colin Lecher | CalMatters 📸 iStock

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Voters in November will decide whether to make a sales tax increase, geared toward funding public safety, maintenance and youth programs, permanent. 🔗 Read the story: vist.ly/5i6cu ✍️ Destiny Torres 📸 Getty Images/iStockphoto

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Believe it or not, cooler temperatures are on the horizon as the tropical moisture brought on by Tropical Storm Marie exits the region. 🔗 More on weather: vist.ly/5i6au ✍️ Gillian Morán Pérez 📸 trekandshoot/Getty Images/iStockphoto

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Chef Joshua Whigham's monthly "paella drop" at Casa Leo in Los Feliz has grown from a 20-guest experiment into a waitlisted fixture. 🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5i5b9 ✍️ Gab Chabrán 📸 Courtesy Casa Leo

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Here's a list of events in L.A. and O.C. counties on Friday and Saturday remembering 9/11. 🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5h2ty ✍️ Fiona Ng 📸 Spencer Platt/Getty Images

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With a little more than two months to go until the general election, the two mayoral candidates running to lead the city of Los Angeles fielded questions about the environment at a Thursday night forum hosted by LAist. 🔗 Find out more at LAist.com/MayorForum 🎥 Lucas Brady Woods, Joshua Letona

Long Beach will make a slew of parking tickets more expensive and charge higher cannabis taxes to avoid cutting library hours and some specialized police officers. 🔗 Find out more: vist.ly/5h2ka ✍️ John Donegan | Long Beach Post 📸 Thomas R. Cordova/Long Beach Post

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The DOJ announced an investigation into the Men’s Central Jail in downtown LA looking into whether L.A. County has failed to provide environmentally safe, humane and habitable conditions for people held there. 🔗 More details: vist.ly/5h26j ✍️ Frank Stoltze 📸 Robert Garrova/LAist

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Colorful parade floats, charros on horseback and live music will take over Cesar E. Chavez Avenue on Sunday for the 80th East L.A. Mexican Independence Day Parade. 🔗 What you need to know: vist.ly/5hzu9 ✍️ Carol Martinez | Boyle Heights Beat 📸 Luis Cano/Boyle Heights Beat

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Mayor Karen Bass made a series of comments that cast street vending in an unsavory light, prompting an almost immediate backlash from her opponent, Nithya Raman. 🔗: vist.ly/5hzm9 ✍️ Gab Chabrán 📸 Andrew Lopez/Boyle Heights Beat

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The Department of Recreation and Parks says a fence at MacArthur Park will be temporary and is still on track for construction this fall. 🔗 What you need to know: vist.ly/5hzb2 ✍️ Hanna Kang | The LA Local 📸 Courtesy L.A. Recreation and Parks

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SB 423 would make disclosure mandatory for calls from private detention facilities unless it would substantially interfere with an active investigation being conducted by the agency receiving the request. 🔗 vist.ly/5hz8y ✍️ Wendy Fry | CalMatters 📸 Gregory Bull/AP Photo

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Southern California is reeling from the destruction left behind by Tropical Storm Marie. Damages in Dana Point: Six homes were red-tagged when high tides pummeled the coastline. 🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5hwdz ✍️ Yusra Farzan 📸 Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

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The El Niño climate pattern is here and can mean heavy rain in the winter. For the thousands of people who lost their homes and businesses in the Eaton and Palisades fires, there are some additional concerns. 🔗 Full story: vist.ly/5hwaj ✍️ Erin Stone 📸 Courtesy Lydia Whitlock

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