Ever wonder what it’s like to work for The Sack of Troy, USC’s self-acclaimed “second-best parody newspaper?” Well, wonder no more. (Tomoki Chien / Daily Trojan)
🌴 In L.A.
Southern Californian inmates keep dying of fentanyl overdoses, putting deputies and nurses at risk of exposure and prompting prison systems to teach staffers how to administer Narcan — and teach inmates the dangers of fentanyl-laced drugs. (Joe Nelson / San Bernardino Sun)
A new study found that a fault system running along the coast of L.A. and Orange counties has the potential to trigger a magnitude 7.8 earthquake. The Harvard study found that the Palos Verdes fault zone, previously thought to be a network of smaller faults, could produce a quake comparable to one from the more well-known San Andreas fault. (Salvador Hernandez / Los Angeles Times)
Officials issued an excessive heat warning for areas including downtown L.A. from 10 a.m. Monday to 8 p.m. Tuesday. (City News Service)
🌅 California
A Chico man was arrested Sunday on suspicion of threatening to kill police officers and planning a “Las Vegas-style” mass shooting. SWAT officers took the 37-year-old — who had a list of specific law enforcement officers and their families that he threatened to kill, and apparently referenced the 2017 Mandalay Bay shooting — into custody at a Super 8 motel in Chico. (Associated Press)
Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would’ve made kindergarten mandatory statewide, citing the high cost of such a requirement. (Sophie Austin / Associated Press)
A state task force began digging into the specifics of a California program to issue reparations to Black residents this weekend in L.A. (Kevin Rector / Los Angeles Times)
🚨 In case you missed it
Face coverings will no longer be required on L.A. County public transit as well as in train stations, airports, cooling centers, homeless shelters and correctional facilities. (Christina Merino / Daily News)
L.A. Unified will start issuing free Narcan, an anti-overdose medication, on all of its campuses by mid-October. Narcan is designed to temporarily restore breathing in patients and allow first-responders time to arrive and begin more permanent treatment. The district’s announcement comes after a string of recent fentanyl overdoses in the school district, one of which was a 15-year-old girl who died in a Bernstein High School bathroom. (Rob Hayes / ABC 7)
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