Los Angeles Times on Apple News+ Audio

He played an iconic cop on TV. Did Robert Blake get away with murder?

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:21:33 +0000

It took 11 months for the LAPD to charge Blake with his wife’s murder. His motive, authorities said, was to win custody of his daughter from a woman whose lifestyle he found abhorrent.

The cost of trust: How a well-connected Newport Beach jeweler duped his wealthiest clients

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:11:59 +0000

Clients trusted him with their special moments: engagements, weddings and anniversaries, or when they simply wished to treat themselves. But for some, when it came time to settle up, Nelson Holdo was full of excuses.

Route 66 is turning 100. So I drove all 2,448 miles of it — and watched it burst with new life

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:51:52 +0000

Christopher Reynolds traveled through eight states, past Muffler Men and motels, beneath the bright lights of Tulsa and Tucumcari. What he found is an American artifact worth preserving.

The LAPD once stopped American migration at the California border — to keep out the poor

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Tue, 5 May 2026 19:08:45 +0000

In an extraordinary episode in U.S. migration history, Los Angeles police stopped fellow Americans from crossing state lines into California.

The Flores twins built a drug empire with El Chapo — then betrayed him

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:07:35 +0000

The Flores twins, Chicago-born drug traffickers who worked directly with El Chapo and the Sinaloa cartel, became key informants in one of the biggest cartel cases in U.S. history.

Retracing the fateful journey of the Tahoe avalanche victims

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Thu, 2 Apr 2026 17:02:29 +0000

A trek to the site of the deadliest avalanche in California history reveals a surprisingly tranquil spot, a stark contrast to the frenzied 15 minutes that determined who survived.

She uncovered a terrifying lab hidden in California, with alleged ties to China

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:00:22 +0000

A code enforcement officer investigating an odd smell found vials and labels for diseases at a California warehouse. She never guessed where the case would lead.

The exodus of California's tech billionaires from the Golden State to Florida's Gold Coast

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:52:22 +0000

Florida, with its high concentration of wealth, no state income tax, pro-business policies and balmy weather, has drawn an unusually large number of disaffected California tech moguls.

An amateur codebreaker may have just solved the Black Dahlia and Zodiac killings

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:06:24 +0000

Two retired LAPD homicide detectives say that both notorious cases are solved -- with a single culprit -- thanks to the work of a novice sleuth.

Authorities said she overdosed. Her parents spent millions in pursuit of murder charges

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:53:47 +0000

Officials in L.A. initially ruled the death of 18-year-old Amelia Salehpour an accidental overdose. But her family has spent a fortune on private investigators who say they turned up evidence of a homicide, creating a divide within local enforcement over how to handle the case.

Gold, guns and cartels: The battle for a billion-dollar mine

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Thu, 6 Nov 2025 18:04:52 +0000

All that stood between this Newport Beach business man and his billion-dollar gold mine in the Mexico’s Sonoran desert was El Chapo’s sons and a drug cartel. His mission: take back the mine and repay the Mexican orphanage that once saved him. His story is one of grit, danger and redemption.

A billionaire's son sold investors on the 'ultimate man cave.' Was any of it real?

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Wed, 8 Oct 2025 18:37:11 +0000

David Bren — the estranged son of Irvine Co. founder Donald Bren — spent years pitching wealthy investors on his idea for a high-end car club in Beverly Hills. Now, lawsuits allege the younger Bren misused millions in investments to fund his lavish lifestyle.

One refugee’s painful journey. Fleeing the U.S. and splitting up her family amid the Trump-era raids

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 19:33:45 +0000

After a life of migrating, Jerardyn thought she'd found sanctuary for her family in a Los Angeles church basement. Then her sense of security was shattered.

The assassination of RFK: An icon of hope, a hotel pantry and an 'angry nobody'

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Wed, 6 Aug 2025 22:14:22 +0000

The Trump administration recently released a cache of classified files on the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in California, leaving attorneys for convicted gunman Sirhan Sirhan combing for new evidence in a case that has spawned many conspiracy theories.

The real story of how L.A. became the epicenter of America's homeless crisis

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:45:29 +0000

The surprising story, in words and pictures, behind the homeless crisis in Los Angeles — a tale of law enforcement, housing and economic crosswinds.

Heartbreak estate: Inside the legal battles of Elvis Presley’s financial legacy

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:35:28 +0000

The dueling litigation is the latest in a string of legal battles that Priscilla and the Presley heirs have been involved in since Elvis died nearly 50 years ago, leaving a financial legacy as messy and fraught as the King's life.

A woman's grisly death inflames debate over how California manages problem black bears

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Mon, 19 May 2025 16:12:21 +0000

Wildlife officials estimate there are now 60,000 black bears in California, roughly triple the figure from 1998. With human-bear encounters on the rise, some rural areas want more leeway to hunt bears down.

Evangelism and Erewhon: They came to L.A. for the Hollywood dream, then shot to Bible stardom

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Wed, 14 May 2025 21:30:32 +0000

As Christians spend less time in the pews and more time on social media, influencers like 'Girls Gone Bible' hosts Angela Halili and Arielle Reitsma have become unlikely religious authorities.

These pay phones around L.A. let you say goodbye to someone 'before it's too late'

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Wed, 9 Apr 2025 16:17:48 +0000

An art project called the Goodbye Line prompts passersby to make a collect call and say goodbye — to a loved one, a pet or maybe a part of themselves. People are dialing.

'It was just a free-for-all': What happened to Kanye West’s Donda Academy?

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Wed, 2 Apr 2025 21:54:11 +0000

Lawsuits and interviews The Times conducted provide a fresh glimpse into the extraordinary dysfunction inside Donda and the erratic behavior of its controversial founder that led to its unraveling.

Justin Baldoni's tumultuous road to the center of a Hollywood scandal

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:24:36 +0000

The actor-director built a career blending his Bahai values and storytelling. Now allegations involving Blake Lively and 'It Ends With Us' threaten his image.

Noses can be made smaller, breasts bigger — and legs longer. Here’s the brutal procedure

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 08:43:29 +0000

When people want to get taller, they wind up on Dr. Kevin Debiparshad's operating table for leg-lengthening surgery.

An ex-NBA player’s plan for a $5-billion Las Vegas arena is an empty pit. What went wrong?

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 00:06:06 +0000

A former NBA player repeatedly promised to build a resort-arena on the Las Vegas Strip. Investors and Nevada officials believed him. Then it all fell apart.

California inmate recruited 'wives' to spread fentanyl across Alaska, feds say

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 20:22:16 +0000

Using contraband cellphones and women that he called his 'wives,' a California prisoner oversaw a sprawling drug ring that spread death and addiction to the most remote corners of Alaska, prosecutors say.

Three dead girls and a man on death row. Did lies put him there?

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 23:28:05 +0000

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?

She went to prison in Varsity Blues admissions scandal. Now she says she was a scapegoat

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 23:15:24 +0000

In her first-ever interview, Donna Heinel recounts her time at the epicenter of the Varsity Blues scandal, four months in prison and her continued devotion to USC.

The 'Love Boat' faces a tragic ending in a lonely California slough

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 17:45:10 +0000

The MS Aurora, a 70-year-old cruise ship that inspired TV's 'The Love Boat,' sits abandoned in a slough outside Stockton. The ship's demise has broken the hearts of a long line of men who could not save her.

The Black Dahlia mystery: Wild theories, enduring myths and a long-overlooked suspect

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 20:57:50 +0000

A retired Los Angeles Times copy editor began researching the Black Dahlia murder case in the late 1990s. Arguably the world’s top authority on the mysteries surrounding Elizabeth Short's death, he believes he knows who killed her.

OnlyFans, trafficking and drug dealers: How a jaguar cub wound up in a California suburb

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Tue, 1 Oct 2024 18:16:19 +0000

A California man paid $1,000 to rent a jaguar for an hour-long photo shoot. Then he bought the cub for $25,000, sparking an investigation into the exotic pet trade.

Inside California's brutal underground market for puppies: Neglected dogs, deceived owners, big profits

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 21:16:51 +0000

A Times investigation has found that truckloads of dogs from profit-driven mass breeders pour into the state from the Midwest, feeding an underground market where they are resold by people claiming to be small, local home breeders.

A bear crashed a picnic and swiped at a woman’s leg. Wildlife cops had a decision to make

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 00:25:20 +0000

Victor the bear was notorious for mooching meals at Mammoth Lakes campgrounds, but when he crashed a steak and wine dinner, things escalated quickly.

'I don't want him to go': An autistic teen and his family face stark choices

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 17:53:05 +0000

An autistic child. The struggle for services. The 911 calls. This is the harrowing story of how one mom scrambled to get help for her son and keep her head above water.

How two strangers found each other and solved the mystery of an L.A. watchmaker

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Thu, 8 Aug 2024 22:25:45 +0000

Charles Allison liked to keep secrets about the watches he made. Perhaps that is what has made him so compelling to his grandson.

How young Californian Chloe Cole emerged as a leader of the ‘detransition’ movement — and a right-wing icon

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 21:55:29 +0000

Chloe Cole is a self-described 'detransitioner' who has become the face of Republican opposition to medical treatment for transgender youths.

How explorers found Amelia Earhart’s watery grave. Or did they?

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:15:03 +0000

The Deep Sea Vision team was out to solve the greatest aviation mystery of all: the disappearance of Amelia Earhart on July 2, 1937, during her epic flight around the world.

Seeking redemption: A death row inmate’s journey into L.A. County’s largest psych ward

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Tue, 2 Jan 2024 21:24:14 +0000

A simple but radical program has changed the lives of dozens of mentally ill inmates housed in L.A. County’s Twin Towers Correctional Facility. One of its architects is Craigen Armstrong, above, who has been incarcerated since 2001, including 12 years on San Quentin’s death row.

50 years after a classmate’s slaying, three amateur sleuths set out to find her killer

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Thu, 1 Jun 2023 23:09:34 +0000

Solving a cold case is a daunting prospect for anyone, let alone amateurs. But three women are determined to find justice for a slain high school classmate.

Ex-NFL player thought ‘Shark Tank’ would launch his barbecue empire. It became a nightmare, he says

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Fri, 19 May 2023 15:57:15 +0000

Restaurateur Al "Bubba" Baker, who was a contestant on the long-running ABC series, claims that he was mistreated by mogul Daymond John, one of the show's "sharks."

The actor, the hairstylist and the eye surgeon: Drugs and death in a Malibu beach house

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 19:16:42 +0000

The death of troubled eye surgeon Mark Sawusch in his Malibu oceanfront house exposes how a Fresno hairstylist and Hollywood actor took over his home, dropped acid with him and drained his fortune.

A Holocaust survivor, a Ukrainian refugee, and the deed that paid it forward

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Tue, 4 Apr 2023 15:30:08 +0000

During the Holocaust, a Ukrainian family hid a girl from the Nazis. Decades later, with Ukraine at war, her son and a community of strangers repay the kindness.

‘Law & Order: SVU’ showrunner accused of mistreating women, support staff on multiple shows

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 16:59:41 +0000

More than a dozen individuals who worked with David Graziano described him as a volatile and bullying boss.

A prison guard’s murder, an inmate’s death sentence and a decades-long battle for freedom

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 19:48:40 +0000

A San Quentin State Prison guard's 1985 murder still ripples through time in the lives of an inmate sentenced to death and the guard's children.

My anxiety meter runs hot; VR meditation helped me relax

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Mon, 3 Oct 2022 17:31:32 +0000

I thought meditation wasn't for me. I was wrong. I just needed some technology to show me the way.

The reality of legal weed in California: Huge illegal grows, violence, worker exploitation and deaths

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 18:40:01 +0000

Illegal cannabis farms are engulfing parts of California and exploiting farmworkers who labor in squalid, deadly conditions, a Times investigation finds.

Steep, icy and ‘vicious’: How a day of climbing on Mt. Shasta turned deadly

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 20:42:35 +0000

This iconic peak can be treacherous, especially for novices and their mountain guides. One died this summer. Here's how the tragedy unfolded.

California’s abandoned homesteads fascinated me as a kid. Then my childhood home became one

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 15:00:00 +0000

Nearly 25 years after Times reporter Melody Gutierrez's family was forced to leave their Wonder Valley home, she returned to find a crumbling, empty house — or was it?

One last trip: Gabriella Walsh’s decision to die — and celebrate life — on her own terms

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Fri, 5 Aug 2022 17:55:22 +0000

Long before she got her terminal cancer diagnosis, Gabriella Walsh had considered the situation as a hypothetical: If her time was limited, she didn't want to prolong her life. Her priority was the quality of the days that remained.

How two L.A. COVID swindlers dodged the FBI and joined the European jet set

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 21:47:55 +0000

L.A. couple facing prison for stealing $18 million in a pandemic relief scam took a private jet to the Balkans and vanished into a posh town on the Mediterranean.

He worked from home and died suddenly. Five days passed before his body was found

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 19:08:44 +0000

28-year-old Dominic Green signed out of his shift on a Wednesday afternoon. Five days passed before his body was discovered.

Her illegal abortion paved the way for Roe. 56 years later she shares her story

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 14:47:49 +0000

A 22-year-old woman and an abortion doctor from California played key roles in the legal fight that led to Roe vs. Wade, now struck down.

My high school classmates were massacred in 2018. How are we still in the exact same place?

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 20:32:20 +0000

Four years after a gunman shot up her high school, a young journalist finds herself writing about mass shootings again. In fact, she says, she never stopped.

A child star at 7, in prison at 22. Then she vanished. What happened to Lora Lee Michel?

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Thu, 19 May 2022 22:31:24 +0000

Hollywood is notorious for erasing people. But her sister and nieces refused to forget Lora Lee Michel. This is what happened to her.

The way we lose Black men never makes sense. Losing my father to COVID is another example

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Fri, 1 Apr 2022 18:00:00 +0000

Marissa Evans' father began 2022 eating apple pie and feeling like it would be their family's year. He died of COVID-19 before the end of January.

He’s America’s oldest competitive snowboarder at 76. Just try keeping up

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Fri, 4 Mar 2022 16:00:00 +0000

Dick Schulze, the oldest competitive snowboarder in the U.S., 'still rips,' says his grandson — titanium knee and all.

He was the ultimate influencer — born 100 years too soon

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 16:35:11 +0000

Vito Paulekas and his dancing Freaks were a magnet for '60s housewives, celebrities and musicians on the Sunset Strip. Why has his legacy been forgotten?

A Hollywood union tried to promote diversity. Then things got complicated

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 17:44:10 +0000

Motion picture costumers launched a diversity committee to help support members of color. But committee members ended up resigning in frustration.

Saving the school where kids were paddled for speaking Spanish

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 18:47:06 +0000

A once-segregated Mexican American school in Texas may become a historic site.

Trauma in House gallery bonds members of Congress even a year later

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Wed, 5 Jan 2022 22:55:20 +0000

Twenty-eight members of Congress who were trapped in the House gallery on Jan. 6 — all Democrats — formed the 'Gallery Group' to help one another through their trauma.

J.P. Morgan’s million-dollar pocket watch vanished. The hunt for it became an obsession

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 22:45:33 +0000

A gold pocket watch said to have been made for J.P. Morgan disappeared, prompting a hunt that plunged into the baroque world of high-end antiquities.

She helped her husband start a far-right militia group. Now the Oath Keeper’s wife says she has regrets

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 00:37:48 +0000

The estranged wife of Oath Keepers founder talks about her role in the group accused of playing a part in the Jan. 6 riot.

The day Alec Baldwin shot Halyna Hutchins and Joel Souza

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Tue, 2 Nov 2021 07:00:00 +0000

Interviews with multiple members of the "Rust" crew paint an hour- by-hour picture of a cascade of bad decisions that created a chaotic set on which a lead bullet was put into a prop gun.

A pageant like no other: ‘Can you imagine Miss USA or Miss Universe butchering a sheep?’

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 18:34:53 +0000

The Miss Navajo Nation Pageant showcases deep knowledge of culture, customs and language along with skills needed to thrive in the modern world.

A graffiti tagger as a teen, he now designs for Fendi and Mercedes-Benz

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 16:59:23 +0000

Joshua Vides' creations have turned the former scofflaw graffitist into an illustrator and visual artist sought after by a growing list of global brands.

Fifty years ago, the Pirates fielded first all-Black lineup, a milestone for diversity

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Thu, 2 Sep 2021 17:58:25 +0000

The Pittsburgh Pirates were the first MLB team to field an all-Black lineup. In doing so, the players made a statement — and later won the World Series.

The Black midwives who help Black mothers

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 21:45:19 +0000

An L.A. birthing center aims to bring Black women the comfort of feeling valued and understood.

After getting his DNA results, he messaged a stranger: I think you might be my father

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Mon, 2 Aug 2021 20:27:05 +0000

All his life, Joseph Arriaga carried a painful secret about his origins. The truth turned out to be far different.

She was the Rosa Parks of her day. So why was she in an unmarked grave for 129 years?

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Mon, 2 Aug 2021 16:56:00 +0000

Ellen Garrison Jackson Clark, the daughter of a runaway slave, was a 19th century Rosa Parks, an early civil rights activist whose work was largely forgotten. Then historians discovered she was buried in an unmarked grave in Altadena.

Next stop, a town at risk of disappearing. Please, watch your bones

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 15:54:09 +0000

The villages along this Korean bus route are small, and getting smaller. Goesan-gun stands out as one of the most at risk of fading out of existence, with an aging population and few young people to replace them.

A riddle in the California desert, and one man’s fight to solve it and save himself

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 16:39:00 +0000

The Calico site in the Mojave Desert for decades attracted expert and amateur archaeologists, digging for evidence that early man roamed the area 200,000 years ago. One man continues that lonely quest.

Being a COVID long hauler has taught me to be fearless, push back and take lots of notes

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Fri, 9 Jul 2021 21:13:15 +0000

More than one year after Sandhya Kambhampati was diagnosed with COVID-19, she shares her story as she continues to recover.

A Disney animator draws on his Salvadoran boyhood of beauty and brutality

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 22:00:00 +0000

José Zelaya, the Disney Television Animation's only Salvadoran designer and digital animator, as a boy dreamed he would "work for Mickey Mouse."

It wasn’t just anyone who collected the bodies of the hospital’s COVID victims. It was Karl

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 21:36:55 +0000

The man collecting the Loma Linda hospital's COVID victims was all but invisible, but ever present in the last year.

How a scrappy Chicano from L.A. came to own a Scottish castle

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 18:52:51 +0000

With supreme confidence and politically incorrect bluster, businessman Dan Pena made a fortune. He prods and pokes his students to do the same.

Chefs and cooks in the disability community share recipes for accessibility

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 18:50:00 +0000

How people with disabilities, often overlooked in the food community, are improving accessibility in the world of cooking and recipes.

Cases of ‘Long COVID’ frustrate patients, puzzle scientists

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:03:45 +0000

Researchers are getting serious about understanding a disease patients call “Long COVID.” Its symptoms include aches, fatigue, sleep problems and brain fog.

As a 9-year-old, she was saved at sea. Thirty-five years later, she reunited with her rescuers

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:50:40 +0000

After 20 hours in the Pacific Ocean, Desireé Rodriguez was the only one in her family left alive. She had almost given up. Then two fishermen spotted her.

How a picture in a newspaper unlocked childhood mysteries for two Holocaust survivors

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Sat, 6 Mar 2021 18:32:30 +0000

Marion Lewin and her twin brother, Steven Hess, were sent to the Nazi camps as young children and knew little of their previous life in Amsterdam — until now.

From the first stitch to the final zip: The global journey of a COVID-19 body bag

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 22:57:39 +0000

A sewing machine, a Pacific freighter and a Detroit family's loss: The story of one body bag's life cycle and the hands that touched it along the way.

For a crematorium worker, COVID-19’s mounting toll is measured in ashes and anguish

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 22:23:30 +0000

Never experiencing the relief of seeing COVID patients recover takes it toll on crematorium workers. One worries he'll develop a 'hard heart, a cold heart.'

Months after contracting COVID-19, some will try anything to regain their sense of smell

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Fri, 5 Feb 2021 16:42:33 +0000

Loss of smell is a common symptom of COVID-19, and about 10% of patients suffer from long-term smell dysfunction, researchers say. Can the nose be retrained to detect odors correctly?

When coronavirus invaded their tiny apartment, children desperately tried to protect dad

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 01:00:00 +0000

In Los Angeles County, there is little mystery to the heaviest spread of the coronavirus. Where crowded housing is worst, the COVID-19 pandemic hits hardest.

I tried to start a pandemic pod for my 5-year-old. Here’s how it went wrong

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 22:06:16 +0000

Trying to create a social pod so her daughter could again play with her friends led this mom down a rabbit hole of awkwardness, rejection and frustration.

Turning to Dungeons & Dragons to escape a real-life monster — COVID-19

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 21:47:15 +0000

With little else to do, the COVID-19 pandemic has given Dungeons and Dragons players a reason to gather virtually to go on heroic quests in the increasingly popular role-playing game.

End-of-life care has boomed in California. So has fraud targeting older Americans

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 18:07:03 +0000

Nowhere has the hospice industry's growth been more explosive, and its harmful side effects more evident, than in Los Angeles County.

This reporter went to cover a homicide in Mexico. Then he became a victim

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Thu, 10 Dec 2020 17:37:55 +0000

Mexican journalists call the crime beat “la nota roja,” the red story. Lurid details guarantee web hits, but documenting the mayhem is among the riskiest assignments.

If you practice yoga, thank this man who came to the U.S. 100 years ago

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 00:18:05 +0000

Paramahansa Yogananda found in Los Angeles the perfect home base for an organization which remains a worldwide spiritual force to this day.

The Nepalese man who came back from the dead

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 01:07:52 +0000

Two families’ struggle for justice reveals the dark truth of Saudi Arabia's labor system

L.A.’s poorest patients endure long delays to see medical specialists. Some die waiting

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Wed, 7 Oct 2020 22:53:36 +0000

Thousands of patients in L.A. County's public hospital system face long, sometimes deadly waits to see specialists, a Times investigation has found. The system serves primarily the region's poorest and most vulnerable residents.

Armed and Black. How a group of men licensed to carry guns say they are seeking racial justice

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 20:32:59 +0000

Armed Black groups like the Minnesota Freedom Fighters work to protect the streets as calls for racial justice mount. Listen to this audio in partnership with Apple News+.

In the ring, they were gods. Now the coronavirus is forcing lucha libre stars to sell street food

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 20:27:09 +0000

'We thought we were eternal,' said the lucha libre star known as Olímpico. 'We never knew something like this could happen.' Listen to our story in partnership with Apple News+

A white mom marched alone to say ‘Black lives matter.’ Her Black son urged her to do more

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Fri, 4 Sep 2020 17:36:14 +0000

When George Floyd was killed, Jesse Ugstad filmed his white mom, who did a one-person Black Lives Matter march in their small Minnesota village of under 700. The small act of protest spurred a reckoning. Listen to this story in partnership with Apple News+.

Through doll play, an L.A. therapist reminds Black girls of their innocence

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 22:43:25 +0000

A project in Los Angeles uses doll play to address the phenomenon of “adultification bias,” a form of racial prejudice that can lead teachers and other authority figures to treat Black girls as more mature than they actually are.

They’re Olympic gold medalists. But this U.S. team was forged in tragedy

latimes.studios@gmail.com (Los Angeles Times) — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 15:17:23 +0000