Coronavirus is topic one among newly announced L.A. Times Book Prize winners

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“Today, the fiction writer has become part of his craft, the subject of his craft,” he said from “quasi-quarantine” in Santa Monica. Sitting “literally in a bunker,” James said the circumstances made him think “even more about how we look at [Bradbury’s] dystopia as a possible future, not realizing [that] in a way it has happene
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Shaquille O'Neal's daughter, Amirah O'Neal, will join her brother by playing basketball at LSU

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The legacy of Shaquille O'Neal at LSU already got a boost with UCLA transfer Shareef O'Neal, his oldest son, signing with the Tigers for next season, but he won't be the only O'Neal family member headed to Baton Rouge in 2020.
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Southern California mountain lions get temporary endangered species status

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Mountain lions are not listed as threatened statewide. But the petition cites recent scientific studies showing that the lions roaming the Santa Ana, San Gabriel, Santa Monica, Santa Cruz and Tehachapi ranges make up a genetically distinct subspecies that is approaching what some experts call an “extinction vortex.” There’s an almost 1 in ...
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Coronavirus: Santa Monica City Council Approves Employee Buyouts

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SANTA MONICA, CA —The City of Santa Monica is facing a budget crisis in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak and asking employees to leave their jobs. The city council voted unanimously during a special meeting on Tuesday to move forward with a "Voluntary Early Separation Incentive Program" and will create a plan for a major organizational ...
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Santa Monica nurses suspended for refusing COVID-19 care without N95 mask

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He’d wash his clothes in Lysol disinfectant. They did a tremendous amount of handwashing. But at Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, California, Gulick and his colleagues worried that caring for infected patients without first being able to don an N95 respirator mask was risky. The N95 mask filters out 95% of all airborne ...
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