Connor Sheets is an investigative and enterprise reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He was part of the team that was a 2024 Pulitzer finalist for its coverage of the mass shooting in Monterey Park. Before joining The Times in 2021, he worked for six years as an investigative reporter in Alabama, reported from four continents as a New York-based enterprise reporter and covered local news for a weekly newspaper chain in Queens. A father of two, Sheets grew up in Maryland, where he delivered newspapers as a teenager and landed his first reporting job after graduating from the University of Maryland.
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Los meteorólogos del sur de California esperan emitir una advertencia de bandera roja de “situación particularmente peligrosa” para la próxima semana a medida que empeora el pronóstico del viento de Santa Ana.
Authorities were preparing to combat new conflagrations that might rise up as fast and excessively dry winds were expected to whip across Southern California.
Forecasters in Southern California expect to issue a ‘particularly dangerous situation’ red flag warning for the coming week as the Santa Ana wind forecast worsens.
After Palisades natives banded together on WhatsApp and raised more than $120,000 on GoFundMe, they face what experts say has become a common scenario after natural disasters: Unexpected scrutiny and challenges as they attempt to manage and distribute the funds.
People already battling homelessness have had their lives uprooted during the wildfires, facing displacement and potential health issues from the smoke.
Records show Cal Fire declined to back projects to protect communities later devastated by the Palisades fire while millions went toward clearing brush with goats, repaving and other projects in sparsely populated parts of the state.
A grief-stricken fraternity of Angelenos who are traveling or living abroad have watched in horror as the lives they knew went up in smoke amid the ferocious Palisades and Eaton fires.
County jails may be able to improve access to medical care and lower death rates behind bars through healthcare accreditation, according to new research by Harvard University economists — but inmates remain frustrated by poor levels of treatment care even at facilities that have undergone the process.
Owners of homes in Pacific Palisades say they are frustrated that they have been barred from returning to fetch belongings amid reports of looting and concerns about additional fires that threaten the remaining properties left standing.
Coverage of the fires ravaging Altadena, Malibu, Pacific Palisades and Pasadena, including stories about the devastation, issues firefighters faced and the weather.