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An investigator says the artifacts were "almost certainly" looted from the Middle Eastern country

To celebrate Thanksgiving, L.A. Times reporters share a dose of optimism.

LOS ANGELES — A document formally charging Robert Durst with murder in the death of his first wife was filed in a New York courthouse earlier this week, days after the real estate scion was sentenced to life in prison in California for the murder of his confidante, Susan Berman. The one-page complai

Illegal pot invades California's deserts, bringing violence, fear and ecological destruction Jaclyn Cosgrove and Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times July 15, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Marijuana plants at Harboside Farms in Salinas, Calif., on Thursday, July 20, 2017.Gabrielle Lurie / The Chronicle LOS ANGELES — Before his corpse was dumped in a shallow grave 50 miles north of Los Angeles, Mauricio Ismael Gonzalez-Ramirez was held prisoner at one of the hundreds of black-market pot farms that have exploded across California’s high desert in the last several years, authorities say. He worked...

Matthew Ormseth and Richard Winton Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES – San Luis Obispo prosecutors anticipate that dozens of women will testify about the predatory — and at times violent — sexual behavior of Paul Flores, a San Pedro man charged with the murder of a 19-year-old college student who vanished 25 years ago and has never been found, according to court papers made public Thursday. In a 43-page document, Deputy District Attorney Christopher G. Peuvrelle laid out the most expansive account yet of the case his office has brought against Flores and his father, Ruben Flores, who are ch...