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A judge has placed on hold a lawsuit brought by a horse groomer at Los Alamitos Race Track against Bob Baffert Racing so the parties can try and settle the plaintiff’s lawsuit alleging various state Labor Code violations. Ruben Ortiz Salgado’s proposed class-action Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit alleges multiple state Labor Code violations and seeks unspecified damages as well as attorneys’ fees and civil penalties. Among the suit’s allegations are that the workers have not been paid all overtime owed, have been denied some meal and rest breaks and have not been compensated for business-related expenses. Salgado seeks unspecified damages as well as attorneys’ fees and civil penalties. The proposed class consists of current and former Baffert Racing employees who worked for the company for up to four years before the filing of the lawsuit on Jan. 9. On Tuesday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elihu M. Berle placed a stay on the suit so the parties can engage in mediation. The judge scheduled a post-mediaton status conference for July 8. According to the suit, Baffert Racing hired Salgado last June and his job

A landslide destroyed a home and three other residences were damaged in Sherman Oaks Wednesday. Los Angeles Fire Department firefighters responded at 2:51 a.m. to 3741 N. Ventura Canyon Ave. regarding a large tree and wires down in the backyard of a residence and found a large portion of a hillside had slid down toward at least three homes, said LAFD spokesman Nicholas Prange. Fox 11 reported several residents were evacuated from their hillside homes. According to reports from the scene, the recent rains have saturated the soil around the homes and could have played a factor in the landslide. The city Department of Building and Safety was contacted and is on scene accessing the integrity of the structures and hillsides, Prange said. Inspectors red-tagged the residence that collapsed.

Politics By Melissa Quinn Updated on: March 13, 2024 / 11:40 AM EDT / CBS News Final arguments conclude in Willis hearing Breaking down closing arguments in Fani Willis misconduct hearing 09:43 Washington — A Fulton County judge on Wednesday tossed out several counts brought against former President Donald Trump and five others in the case involving an alleged attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. The brief order from Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee states that six of the counts in the 41-count indictment returned by a Fulton County grand jury in August must be quashed. Of those six counts, Trump was charged with three of them. Joining Trump in the challenge to the six counts were former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and lawyers Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Ray Stallings Smith and David Cheeley. All had pleaded not guilty to the charges brought against them.  Steve Sadow, Trump’s lawyer, said the court’s decision to quash the counts is the correct one. “The ruling is a correct application of the law, as the prosecution failed to make

Avery, styled as the Priestess, wears Balenciaga dress and shoes, Ashton Michael necklace and cuff. I want so badly to tell you about your future. I’ve made it clear on my website that I am not a psychic but now that you’ve paid me for a tarot reading and you’re sitting here in front of me, it’s obvious you want me to tell you what is going to happen. Ninety-eight out of 100 times, you specifically want to know the future of your love life or your career. (In the remaining two instances, you want to know where you should live.) Before we met, I asked you to draft an open-ended yet specific question to bring to the cards. And although you think you’ve found the secret way of predicting your future by asking me what needs to change in your current romantic relationship or how to decide whether you should quit your job, I’m sorry to say you haven’t. I could be didactic with you — sure, quit your job, marry your partner, move to the burbs — and that may feel like a

A molecular lookalike of the intoxicating compound found in marijuana has become popular among teens in the United States, especially in areas where marijuana use is illegal, a new study shows. More than 11% of high school seniors who took part in a national survey last spring said they had used delta-8 THC, a psychoactive compound typically derived from hemp, in the last year. That figure surprised researchers at USC and the University of Michigan, who published their findings this week in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. Products containing delta-8 “have really only been on the market since 2018,” said study leader Alyssa Harlow, a USC epidemiologist and faculty member of the school’s Institute for Addiction Science. Gummies, vapes and other products containing delta-8 are available online and in gas stations and convenience stores. They are often marketed as a federally legal substitute for marijuana — and often without solid measures for age verification. “We don’t know enough about these drugs, but we see that they are already extremely accessible to teens,” said Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug

Three suspects are in custody after they smashed through the window of a Bev-Mo and stole alcohol, authorities say.  According to an official law enforcement release, police officers were dispatched to the Bev-Mo located at 405 Cochran Street in Simi Valley just after 1:10 a.m. Wednesday.  Upon arriving at the scene, Simi Valley Police Department officers found a smashed window “signaling a break-in” and also found that several bottles of alcohol were stolen.  Large landslide cracks pool, damages home in Los Angeles “While securing the premises to ensure no suspects were still on-site, a Patrol Supervisor began monitoring traffic on the east end of Simi Valley,” the SVPD release said. “The supervisor identified a suspicious vehicle heading eastbound on the 118 Freeway, [and] a traffic stop was conducted [on the freeway] at Kuehner Drive.”  When the supervisor contacted the vehicle’s three occupants, they noticed numerous bottles of alcohol “in plain view within the vehicle” in addition to Bev-Mo hand shopping baskets, police said.  “Additionally, officers at the burglary scene viewed the suspects captured on video surveillance footage,” the police department said. “The suspects’ clothing in

The mysterious closure of an In-N-Out Burger location in the heart of Hollywood caused some confusion among motorists this week. The restaurant on Sunset Boulevard and North Orange Drive was spotted with a tent over it and fenced off on Tuesday. A message on the In-N-out Burger Hollywood website Wednesday read, “This location is temporarily closed” but further details could be found on a sign outside the restaurant. A sign is seen outside a closed In-N-Out Burger in Hollywood on March 13, 2024. (KTLA) A closed In-N-Out Burger location in Hollywood is seen with a tent over it on March 13, 2024. (KTLA) A closed In-N-Out Burger location in Hollywood is seen with a tent over it on March 13, 2024. (KTLA) A closed In-N-Out Burger location in Hollywood is seen with a tent over it on March 13, 2024. (KTLA) The sign said the In-N-Out would be closed on Tuesday and Wednesday for “routine termite treatment and prevention.” In the meantime, hungry burger lovers can head to the next closest location at 3640 Cahuenga Blvd. Large landslide cracks pool, damages home in Los Angeles

Dollar Tree will close nearly 1,000 stores and swung to a surprise fourth quarter loss as the discount retailer took a related $1.07 billion goodwill impairment charge. Shares tumbled 15% before the opening bell Wednesday. Dollar Tree plans to close about 600 Family Dollar stores in the first half of this year and 370 Family Dollar and 30 Dollar Tree stores over the next several years. Dollar Tree and Family Dollar agree to take steps to improve worker safety at the bargain stores Dollar Tree acquired Family Dollar for more than $8 billion almost a decade ago after a bidding war with rival Dollar General, but it has had difficulty absorbing the chain. “This dramatic cull is the coup de grâce in the rather botched acquisition of the Family Dollar chain, which has caused Dollar Tree nothing but hassle since it was completed back in 2015,” wrote Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData. “Basically, almost ten years on, Dollar Tree is still sifting through the mess it inherited and has not been able to completely turn around,” Saunders said. Saunders said in an emailed statement

Politics By Caitlin Yilek Edited By Stefan Becket, Ellen Uchimiya Updated on: March 13, 2024 / 10:09 AM EDT / CBS News CBS News Live CBS News Live 2 Live Washington — The House is voting Wednesday on  legislation that could ban TikTok in the U.S. if Beijing-based ByteDance doesn’t sell its stake in the social media platform, a bill that has attracted bipartisan support in just a week. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, was confident the bill would pass. TikTok has repeatedly been targeted by lawmakers seeking to restrict the app over concerns that the Chinese government could force ByteDance to hand over the data of its 170 million American users. Lawmakers say the concern is warranted because Chinese national security laws require organizations to cooperate with intelligence gathering. TikTok has long denied it could be used by the Chinese government to spy on Americans.  The House fast-tracked the bill, known as the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, skipping the Rules Committee and bringing it up under a procedure that requires two-thirds support for passage, an indication that

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