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Bass Appointed As Metro Board Chair For Fiscal Year 2026-27
Mayor Karen Bass will succeed Whittier City Councilman Fernando Dutra, who is expected to leave the board at the end of his term.

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Mayor Karen Bass will succeed Whittier City Councilman Fernando Dutra, who is expected to leave the board at the end of his term.

The suspect was leading police on a pursuit before the crash, police said.
A pedestrian was fatally struck by a Metro train Thursday morning.
"The work Karen Bass is doing in Los Angeles is making our entire state stronger," Newsom said.
The woman was killed and her teen daughter was severely injured in the crash.
Thursday's finals will air live on ION from 5 to 7 p.m.
The Heat-Related Illness and Mortality Dashboard provides data on emergency department visits and deaths linked to heat exposure.
Firefighters had difficulty forcing entry into the building.
The man claims his position was eliminated because he had made a racial harassment complaint against a colleague.
The immersive art exhibition transformed patient rooms, operating spaces and hospital corridors into large-scale installations.
LA28 unveiled its full Paralympic competition schedule Wednesday, outlining more than 1,100 hours of competition across 14 days.
The plaintiffs claimed city officials failed to control sidewalk vendors in East Hollywood.
The council approved her nomination in a 12-0 vote.
"We trusted a man without a conscience, and my son paid the price," Perry's mother wrote.
Brentwood School is asking a judge to deny punitive damages to a former math teacher who is suing the school.
The delay comes as proponents withdrew a ballot initiative aimed at eliminating the city's business tax.
All three spellers from Los Angeles County advanced to the third round of Scripps National Spelling Bee Tuesday.
City officials said they were aware of residents' safety concerns at the intersection where two children were struck and killed by Grossman.
The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research's Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Data Policy Lab has received a $1 million grant.
Major League Volleyball announced Tuesday it will launch a Los Angeles franchise.