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When kindergarten teacher Cynthia Farrow searched for a community where she could raise her family and afford a home with enough space for a few horses, she settled on the sunswept desert town of Littlerock in the Antelope Valley. Farrow, along with her husband, Gary, and their 10-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter, bought a home in 1996 in the hamlet about 50 miles northeast of Los Angeles. “We were priced out of so many places except here in the AV,” Farrow said, referring to the Antelope Valley. “It was a dream place, and we found a community here. But, sadly, that attracted others here too.” The affordability, the low population density and the space between homes and properties — often measured in acres — is also enticing for correctional authorities and courts across the state looking to relocate former sex offenders who have been conditionally paroled or recently released. Antelope Valley residents like Farrow and others who have been fighting the placement of such offenders have become activated by the potential move to relocate Christopher Hubbart, aka the “Pillowcase Rapist,” to the Juniper Hills community.

October 5, 2024 / 8:11 AM EDT / AP How climate change affects atmospheric rivers How climate change is fueling stronger atmospheric rivers 05:06 A severe rainstorm struck Bosnia overnight Friday, killing at least 16 people in floods and landslides in several towns and villages in central and southern parts of the country, with surging waters rushing into people’s homes as they were sleeping. Rescue services in the south said several people were missing and called on volunteers and the army to assist as roads were closed and houses left without electricity. Josip Kalem, a resident of Fojnica, one of the towns hit by the floods, said his dog’s barking woke him up at around 4 a.m. When he came out on the terrace, he saw the water rising rapidly. “I came down, woke up my wife, and we looked around, we could not get out of the house. We saw more and more water coming in,” he said. “All of a sudden, the water was flooding the garage, basement, my car — everything. The water swept it all away, including my dog. Flood took

Let the Paris Olympic Games begin! Between now and Aug. 11, there will be 329 medal events across 39 sports with coverage provided on the broadcast and streaming platforms of NBC.  That’s a lot of running, jumping, hurdling, skateboarding, cycling and more, so NBC4 will shift some of its live newscasts exclusively to our streaming platforms. Here’s a look at when to stream the latest local news, weather and sports coverage, including updates on our Southern California Olympians.  Newscasts will appear above on this page. You also can stream the NBC4 News on your big screen on Roku, Samsung TV Plus, Pluto TV, Xumo and Fire TV. Not sure how? Here’s our guide. Weekday streaming schedule 9 a.m.: The Rundown 11 a.m.: NBC4 News 5 p.m.: Paris Primetime Preview Today in LA and the NBC4 News at 6 p.m., 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. will be on our broadcast and streaming platforms at their usual times.   Weekend streaming schedule Today in LA Weekend, the NBC4 News at 6:30 p.m. and the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. will be broadcast and streamed at their usual

A Long Beach man has pleaded guilty to a federal charge after authorities say he took a runaway underage girl he met online across the state border from Arizona and engaged in criminal sexual activity with her in his apartment. Trevon Nathaniel Langstaff, 33, who was arrested in March, pleaded guilty Friday to one count of traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, according to the U.S. attorney’s office. Langstaff contacted the girl through a Reddit forum for runaways and then drove to Peoria, Ariz. — a suburb of Phoenix — to pick her up, according to a plea agreement. He instructed the victim, who he knew was 14 years old, to pretend to be 18, according to the agreement. Her parents reported her missing on March 26, prosecutors said. After reaching out to her friends for information on her whereabouts, they learned she had told them she was planning on running away. The girl also told a friend she had met a man who helped harbor runaway teens and had offered to provide her with a cellphone and room, according to an

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When kindergarten teacher Cynthia Farrow searched for a community where she could raise her family and afford a home with enough space for a few horses, she settled on the sunswept desert town of Littlerock in the Antelope Valley. Farrow, along with her husband Gary and their 10-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter bought a home in 1996 in the hamlet about 50 miles northeast of Los Angeles. “We were priced out of so many places except here in the AV,” Farrow said, referring to the Antelope Valley. “It was a dream place and we found a community here. But, sadly, that attracted others here too.” The affordability, the low population density and the space between homes and properties — often measured in acres — is also enticing for correctional authorities and courts across the state looking to relocate former sex offenders who have been conditionally paroled or recently released. Antelope Valley residents like Farrow and others who have been fighting the placement of such offenders have become activated by the potential move to relocate Christopher Hubbart, aka the “Pillowcase Rapist,” to the Juniper Hills community.

Four years ago, Los Angeles County voters elected George Gascón to take their district attorney’s office in a bold and constructive new direction. They embraced his conviction that a D.A., uniquely, has the power and responsibility to make the justice system more just. They agreed with him that sentences should be set at just long enough to protect communities and to end cycles of violence, arrest, retribution and recidivism, and not merely to inflict the greatest possible punishment. They elected him toward the end of a tumultuous year of pandemic, lockdown, police murder, social justice protest, political anxiety and disorder on a scale unprecedented in recent decades. It was a time of both possibility and hazard. L.A. County voters opted for the kind of systemic change that Gascón offered. Pushback was immediate and intense, first from prosecutors and police officers who felt threatened by the new approach, and soon after by political opportunists nationwide who used Gascón as a caricature of a criminal-coddling D.A. to stoke fears of crime and disorder. The blowback continues, even after two recall attempts failed to qualify for the ballot.

The Civilian Oversight Commission is raising concerns about a previously unknown deputy subgroup that oversight officials say uses a logo featuring Nazi-like imagery, according to a memo obtained by The Times. The newly reported group, which is not named in the memo, is based out of the Los Angeles CountySheriff’s Department’s Norwalk station, which had not previously been linked to any reported deputy gang or clique. The unnamed group’s symbol — described in the memo and confirmed to The Times by five sources in the department — is a skull with blood-red eyes, pierced by a jagged lightning bolt. Longtime commission member Sean Kennedy, who wrote the memo, described the group as “currently active” and said it has sometimes been at odds with another Norwalk subgroup that predates it and is identified by a Wile E. Coyote logo. Several department sources — who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation — told The Times the newer subgroup dates to at least the 1990s. One department source said the subgroup has a “shot caller” who makes decisions, much like in a prison gang. Though some