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Morning, Trojan.

Seven stories for today, Oct. 5

📍 On campus

  1. The parliamentary debate team placed highly at the Cornell British Parliamentary Debate tournament. Ashley Ka and Harshitha Dasari came out on top, placing seventh and 11th, respectively. (Andrew Ruiz and Kate Stuzin / Daily Trojan)

🌴 In L.A.

  1. The L.A. City Council set a Jan. 31 end date for pandemic-era eviction protections. Since March 2020, those protections have kept tens of thousands of Angelenos from eviction, but landlords have long called for ending the regulations, saying missed rent payments have hurt their bottom line. (David Wagner / LAist)

  1. Southern California gas prices hit record highs for the second day in a row Tuesday. In Los Angeles County, the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded was $6.489. Some experts have blamed refinery issues for the soaring prices. (Kevin Smith / San Gabriel Valley Tribune)

  1. The L.A. Police Department concluded that an officer’s death in a May training exercise was an accident that occurred when he and another officer fell to the ground while grappling during a simulation. The report counters a suit made by the late officer’s mother, who alleged in part that the officer was beaten by multiple other officers in a scenario meant to “simulate a mob.” (City News Service)

  1. L.A. County prosecutors have accused the chief executive of a Michigan software company of compromising the personal information of hundreds of county elections employees. Eugene Yu, 51, was arrested Tuesday just outside Lansing, Mich., after prosecutors alleged he improperly stored the information on servers in China. (James Queally / Los Angeles Times)

🌅 California

  1. Authorities have connected an additional murder of an Oakland man to a possible Stockton serial killer, as well as one non-fatal shooting of a Stockton woman. The killer has now been connected to six slayings. (Staff report / The Guardian)

  1. A Yuba City high school football team forfeited the rest of its season after several varsity players staged a reenactment of a “slave auction.” A now-deleted video purportedly showed about a dozen students pointing and yelling dollar amounts at three Black students who were standing in their underwear up against a wall. (Alexandra E. Petri / Los Angeles Times)

⭐️ A bonus from The Sack

  • Kinder Egg to Release Adult Toy Collection: “Try Choking on This!” After a long absence, the Kinder Surprise is finally making its big return to the United States with a brand new adult toy collection. (Levi Elias / The Sack of Troy)

🚨 In case you missed it

  • California has decriminalized jaywalking, allowing pedestrians to informally cross streets “as long as it’s safe to do so.” The law goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2023. (Jordan Mendoza / USA Today)

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