Clara Harter is a breaking news reporter at the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she covered politics and education for the L.A. Daily News. While at the Daily News, she published a series on fentanyl addiction that won a first-place investigative journalism award from the L.A. Press Club. Harter majored in political science and Middle Eastern studies at Columbia University. She loves surfing and, when not reporting, can most likely be found in the ocean.
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The death of an L.A. County inmate marks the 13th suspected homicide in state prisons this year as violence surges despite a crackdown by California prison authorities.
Three teenage boys were wounded in a shooting in Boyle Heights on Monday afternoon and transported to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
Residential burglaries are up about 450% in the Altadena area compared with last year, as thieves target homes that survived the Eaton fire — further traumatizing residents.
Eight endangered Fijian iguanas have arrived at their new home at the San Diego Zoo. The creatures were seized by Spanish authorities in a 2017 bust of more than 600 illegally trafficked reptiles.
If California were its own country, its economy would now rank as the fourth largest of any nation in the globe, Gov. Gavin Newsom said this week.
A suspect was arrested after surveillance video and community tips led police to a man they say used a chain saw to cut down at least 13 trees in and around downtown Los Angeles.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents reportedly detained over a dozen day laborers outside a Home Depot in Pomona on Tuesday.
The L.A. Zoo is pausing its elephant program and sending Bill and Tina to the Tulsa Zoo, but animal rights advocates want the ailing giants to be sent to a sanctuary.
A man appeared to fire his gun at an LAPD helicopter, according to police. Officers fatally shot him during the incident Sunday in Reseda.