Good morning. It’s Friday, and we’re still hoping that SC can make it to the Pac-12 championship. Let’s start by beating Cal tomorrow. Onto the five USC, Los Angeles and California stories you need to know for today.

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The famous Murphy’s Law says: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” That seems to be the case at the embattled Hub LA Figueroa apartments, where, last week, a contractor died in a “tragic accident.” No other details were immediately available. Local authorities investigating the death said they found the site safe for work, but the move-in date for the complex was pushed back a third time to Nov. 11. Students who signed leases at the building are still in temporary accommodations at the Lorenzo Apartments, where they were moved earlier this month after being booted from downtown hotels.

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Law enforcement officials plan to investigate some San Francisco opioid deaths as homicides starting next year, a major escalation of the city’s effort to tamp down on fentanyl use. The initiative is sponsored by Gov. Gavin Newsom and Mayor London Breed, and will no doubt spark fierce pushback from critics who say the focus on arresting street-level dealers is reminiscent of failed “war-on-drugs” policies, and that addiction needs to be treated instead as a public health emergency.

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Two flight attendants sued United Airlines alleging they were removed from working charter flights for the LA Dodgers because they weren’t white, thin and young. Darby Quezada, 44, and Dawn Todd, 50 — both women of color — also alleged that other flight attendants referred to Quezada as the “flight maid” because she’s Mexican, and that they were told white attendants fit a “certain look” the Dodgers like. Charter flights are considered a cushy assignment: Attendants earn more money, higher per diems and often receive sports tickets and rare merchandise.

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California officials will drop hundreds of thousands of fruit flies over regions of LA — including USC — in an effort to stamp out an invasive population of Mediterranean fruit flies. The effort might sound counterintuitive, but it’s a birth control measure: The flies will be sterile males, a common method for dealing with invasive insects that officials hope will resolve the invasion within six months. Authorities say that if the invasive population spirals out of control, the state’s agriculture industry could lose up to $1.8 billion a year.

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Breaking Bad fans, rejoice. A six-bedroom San Jose home — which houses an “inactive meth lab and meth contamination” — is on the market for $1.55 million. The home was also allegedly used to stockpile firearms and build homemade explosives used to destroy several Pacific Gas & Electric transformers in 2022 and 2023; the previous owner, 35-year-old Peter Karasev, faces a federal indictment. The best part is that the home is being sold as is, meaning the next owner gets to clean up the meth lab.

You’re all caught up. Thanks for reading Morning, Trojan, and have a good day.

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