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Susan Horton with her newborn daughter, Halle, in August 2022.

She ate a Costco salad before giving birth. After a drug test, authorities took her baby away

Susan Horton tested positive for opiates after eating a poppy seed salad and giving birth in a Kaiser hospital in Santa Rosa. Her daughter was taken away from her days later.

Oct. 4, 2024
Sewage water filled with trash flow down the Tijuana River on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, in Imperial Beach, California. (Ana Ramirez/The San Diego Union-Tribune/TNS)

The Tijuana River smells so bad, the CDC is coming to investigate

Oct. 4, 2024
LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 23, 2024 - Jaeyoung Choy, 94, left, and Myung Hong, 88, enjoy a meal, provided by the non-profit group Little Tokyo Senior Nutrition Services (LTNS), at the Little Tokyo Towers in Los Angeles on August 23, 2024. The LTNS delivers free meals to 130 seniors Monday through Friday. For some, it is the only meal the seniors will have for the day. The meals are made at Far Bar, a gastro pub in Little Tokyo. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

Time and funding are running out for Little Tokyo senior meal program

Oct. 4, 2024
LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 18: Lee Todd Miller, associate dean of pediatricts, with 155 future doctors before they open residency acceptance envelopes on Match Day at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA on Friday, March 18, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA. Match Day is when medical students nationwide learn which hospital has accepted them for residency, or advanced training in their chosen clinical specialty. Due to COVID-19, this was the first in-person Match Day ceremony since 2019. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

Opinion: The evidence shows women make better doctors. So why do men still dominate medicine?

Oct. 4, 2024
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The fate of magic mushrooms in California is unclear. Some wellness businesses are using them anyway

Oct. 3, 2024

Your guide to the presidential candidates’ views on healthcare

Oct. 3, 2024

Opinion: I’m a trans parent. Here’s what I tell adults who worry when kids are gender-nonconforming

Oct. 2, 2024

Depression was rising among young people in Southern California. COVID made it worse

Oct. 1, 2024

Newsom signs bill to ban ‘forever chemicals’ in tampons, pads

Sept. 30, 2024
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Swan Lake Suite is performed at the Westside School of Ballet Adult Showcase.

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‘The best gift I’ve ever given myself’: Why adults are returning to L.A. ballet studios

Seeking community and beauty, adult women are returning to the once highly competitive and exclusive art of ballet.

Sept. 25, 2024

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