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Sophomore Morgan Wang (center) takes part in a rehearsal of The Miser at Arroyo Pacific Academy in Arcadia, Calif., last November. Wang plays Marianne in the play.

Growing Numbers Of Chinese Teens Are Coming To America For High School

4:51pm January 26, 2016

by Josie Huang

More than 23,000 have come so far, with California a top destination — especially the Los Angeles suburbs in the San Gabriel Valley. Many teens live with host families and attend private schools.

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Michelle King is introduced by the school district board member and president, Steve Zimmer, right, as the new superintendent.

New Superintendent To Lead Los Angeles School District

6:09pm January 23, 2016

by Priska Neely

Michelle King has largely stayed out of the spotlight-- until she became the first African-American woman to be named superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District on Jan. 11.

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This photo taken Nov. 3, 2015, shows SoCalGas crews and technical experts attempting to safely stop the flow of natural gas leaking from a storage well at the utility's Aliso Canyon facility in Los Angeles. Efforts to plug the well appear to have destabil

Gas Company Understated Benzene Exposure From California Leak

3:23pm January 15, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

SoCalGas wrote about two air samples with high levels of the carcinogen — but not about 12 others, the AP reports. And the LA Times writes that efforts to cap the well appear to have destabilized it.

The St. Louis Rams will be moving to Los Angeles. It will be the first NFL franchise in the city since the Rams and Raiders left the city two decades ago.

NFL Votes To Move Rams To Los Angeles, With Option For Chargers To Join Them

10:19pm January 12, 2016

by Laura Wagner

The NFL will be returning to LA for the first time in two decades. The vote, however, left a third applicant — the Oakland Raiders — out of the deal.

Crews work on a relief well at the Aliso Canyon facility above the Porter Ranch area of Los Angeles in early December. A leak has allowed tons of methane to escape into the surrounding neighborhood; stopping it is taking months because of pressure from th

California Declares State Of Emergency Over Months-Long Gas Leak

7:39pm January 07, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

Since October, a natural gas storage well near Los Angeles has been spewing hundreds of tons of methane gas each day. The leak isn't expected to be fixed for months.

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At left, Jimmy Smits in My Family. At right, Jennifer Lopez in Selena.

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'Mi Familia' In Movies: Films Mexican-American Millennials Grew Up On

1:00pm January 06, 2016

by Adrian Florido

The bush-disguise bit in Born in East L.A. The murder scene in Selena. I watched these dozens of times as a kid, but as an adult, they've come to mean more.

Members of the Los Angeles Police Department's elite Metropolitan Division participate in a simulation of a Paris-style coordinated attack. The team was tested on response time to converge on this site.

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In Wake Of Attacks, U.S. Cities Step Up Terrorism Simulations

12:40pm December 22, 2015

by Martin Kaste

Local police and emergency services in the U.S. have been preparing for a new reality: a strategic attack by terrorists who use diversionary tactics to maximize chaos and death.

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Los Angeles Schools Will Reopen After Threat Is Deemed Hoax

7:42am December 16, 2015

by Eyder Peralta

School officials decided to reopen schools after the more than 900 in the district were inspected and found to be safe.

Los Angeles Unified school district buses sit idle following an "electronic threat" on Tuesday. More than 600,000 students were being sent home or told not to come to school.

L.A. Schools To Reopen Wednesday After Threat Spurs Daylong Search

10:26pm December 15, 2015

by Eyder Peralta

Authorities say they have swept 1,531 school sites and found that it is safe to resume classes. The FBI determined a threat that had been emailed to school officials wasn't credible, the mayor said.

The infrared photos on the right and left show the methane plume, which is not visible to the naked eye as shown in the middle photo.

Natural Gas Leak in California Raises Health, Environmental Concerns

5:09pm December 15, 2015

by Merrit Kennedy

A month and a half after detecting the leak in its Aliso Canyon storage facility, Southern California Gas Co. still hasn't been able to stop it.