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Forty years ago, Michael Anthony Cox was convicted of the murders of three girls in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Years later, the two main witnesses at his trial, also teenagers, recanted, saying police had pressured them into false stories. So why is Cox still on death row?
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Restaurant critic Bill Addison and columnist Jenn Harris rank the 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles.
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California’s new wave of sparkling wines is hitting its stride. These bubbles are rising to the top not because they taste like Champagne — but precisely because they don’t.
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A shocking series of murders stunned the rural California mountain town of Placerville in the 1980s. Authorities were under intense pressure to solve the cases, and for a while it seemed they did. But Times reporters Anita Chabria and Jessica Garrison spent more than a year reexamining the crimes and found troubling questions about both justice and the justice system.
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World & Nation
With his pick for ambassador to Mexico, Trump signals that he might be serious about sending U.S. troops to fight the drug cartels
The ambitious film follows László Toth (Adrien Brody) chasing his American Dream, only to be upended by a tycoon.
Walt Disney Co. and its chief executive have made a sharp pivot since doubling-down on diversity and inclusion efforts in the wake of George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis four and a half years ago.
Austin Reaves knows he was once pegged as a long shot for the NBA, and that’s why winning a game for the Lakers on Christmas means so much to him.
Emily Haynes’ colorful wheel-thrown, hand-painted ceramics reflects Southern California surf style and Midcentury Modern design.
