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The Pulse of Southern California

LA Rams’ Stafford Among NFL MVP Favorites

The NFL regular season has ended and the MVP debate continues. It could be another close race with no clear front-runner. Matthew Stafford and Drake Maye have the best odds,…

Tech can avert catastrophic fires. What’s missing is coordination

A year ago Los Angeles woke up to a red sky. Schools closed, and families packed into cars not knowing when or if they would return. In the end many…

Michael Reagan’s death reverberates among Californians of both parties

The son of a storied Republican president, Michael Reagan, who recently died, was memorialized as a stalwart supporter of his father’s legacy. But in his home state of California, Reagan…

Ex-CHP captain exposed himself on flight twice, avoids jail sentence

A former California Highway Patrol captain will not serve jail time after admitting to exposing himself and sexually touching flight attendants aboard a JetBlue flight last year. Dennis Woodbury, 50,…

Woman in custody After child dies in Santa Monica

A woman was in custody Tuesday after an infant died with significant injuries at a Santa Monica apartment, police said. Published: January 06, 2026, 9:53 pm A woman was in…

Astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana of Johns Hopkins is named Caltech president

Ray Jayawardhana, an astrophysicist and provost of Johns Hopkins University, will become the next president of Caltech — one of the nation’s wealthiest and most elite universities — as it…

Paused: A California court order to let teachers to tell parents about child’s LGBTQ identity

A court order giving California teachers full freedom to tell parents about their child’s gender identity at school is on hold after an appellate panel blocked it from going into…

As tow truck steals cars from SoCal driveways, owners frustrated, mad

At 6 a.m. in early December, an unlabeled white tow truck cruised into Jesse Roller’s Chino neighborhood. Roller had saved up for four years to buy his prized Cadillac CTS-V…

What Trump’s vow to withhold federal childcare funding means in California

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state Democratic leaders accused President Trump of unleashing a political vendetta after he announced plans to freeze roughly $10 billion in federal funding…

New California tool can stop collection, sale of online personal data

Starting this year, a single request form will allow Californians to demand that data brokers delete their personal information and refrain from collecting or selling it in the future. Third…