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  • Family remembers 14-year-old's dreams before LAPD shooting

    STEFANIE DAZIO and CHRISTOPHER WEBER|Dec 29, 2021

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — The 14-year-old girl who was killed by Los Angeles police last week — she was struck while hiding in a dressing room as an officer was aiming rifle rounds at a man suspected of assaulting customers at a clothing store and a bullet went through a wall — loved skateboarding and had dreams of becoming an engineer to build robots, her family said Tuesday. Valentina Orellana-Peralta died in her mother's arms last Thursday at a Burlington store in the North Hollywood neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley. Soledad Peralta, durin...

  • Wildfire rages on LA's northern edge, thousands evacuated

    STEFANIE DAZIO and CHRISTOPHER WEBER|Oct 11, 2019

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — A wildfire raged out of control along the northern edge of Los Angeles early Friday, forcing thousands of people from their homes as firefighters battled flames from the air and on the ground. The blaze erupted late Thursday along the northern tier of the San Fernando Valley as powerful Santa Ana winds swept Southern California, fanning several destructive blazes. The Los Angeles Fire Department said the fire had grown to more than 6 square miles (15.5 square kilometers) before dawn and an estimated 12,700 homes were under e...