Good morning. It’s Monday, and I’m reading about Los Angeles’s haunted restaurants. Onto the five USC, LA, and California stories you need to know for today.

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Brace yourself for potential IT issues today while USC races to patch major cybersecurity vulnerabilities discovered by Morning, Trojan. Some printers may not work, and the email system is currently flagging anything from non-USC addresses including Google Drive, Calendar, Brightspace, and any Gmail address.

Tomoki Chien / Morning, Trojan

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DPS officers are pissed they’re not getting paid more for all the fine work they do to protect USC. The light-shirted, unarmed officers earn $21 per hour. The dark-shirted, gun-toting cops earn $41.47 to $51.30. “I want to cry right now thinking about it,” one officer said.

Caitlin Roehmholdt / Daily Trojan

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The mastermind of the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal wants to help kids get into school again — legally, he says. Rick Singer, 64, wasn’t particularly contrite when interviewed at the end of his 16-month prison term. “It wasn’t like I made up the process,” he said of the sweeping cheating ring he organized.

Melissa Korn and Jennifer Levitz / The Wall Street Journal

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LA’s incumbent district attorney, George Gascón, is short on cash with Election Day fast approaching. Tough-on-crime challenger Nathan Hochman has out-raised Gascón nearly 9:1, allowing him to run a blitz of attack ads depicting LA as a crime-ridden dystopia in one of the county’s most closely watched elections.

James Queally and Gabrielle LaMarr LeMee / Los Angeles Times

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The Dodgers are off to the World Series after a Game 6 win over the Mets — redemption, finally, after a spate of playoff collapses. They’ll face the Yankees in a matchup of the MLB’s most legendary franchises starting Friday.

Bill Plaschke / Los Angeles Times

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