Clara Harter is a breaking news reporter at the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she covered politics and education for the L.A. Daily News. While at the Daily News, she published a series on fentanyl addiction that won a first-place investigative journalism award from the L.A. Press Club. Harter majored in political science and Middle Eastern studies at Columbia University. She loves surfing and, when not reporting, can most likely be found in the ocean.
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In an exclusive gated neighborhood in L.A., the home of Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban was broken into. It’s not yet clear what was taken.
Californians were able to look to the sky to see an unarmed missile as the Air Force launched the Minuteman III from Vandenberg base.
After months at sea, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Waesche returned to San Diego on Thursday, with over 37,000 pounds of confiscated cocaine and one less crew member.
The Ocean-Aire Mobile Home Estates and Country Club Mobile Home Estates in Oxnard were hit by 60-mph wind gusts. Meteorologists say it was a weak tornado.
A massive amount of rainwater and mud was unleashed onto Pacific Coast Highway on Thursday, sweeping an L.A. Fire Department vehicle off the iconic coastal route and prompting an indefinite road closure roughly from Santa Monica to the Malibu Pier.
With rains pounding Southern California, there are both mandatory evacuations and evacuation warnings.
Street flooding and mudslides, and a weak tornado, were reported across the region as the storm barreled through Thursday evening.