A semester-long construction project has frustrated some Thornton students who say they’ve had to find new quiet rehearsal spaces. PPC Air Conditioning, the contractor carrying out the project, said that it’ll shift its construction times to better accommodate students. (Staff report / Annenberg Media)
The Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism celebrated its 50th anniversary on Tuesday in an event featuring speeches from Dean Willow Bay and President Carol Folt. (Benjamin Papp and Claire Qiu / Daily Trojan)
🌴 In L.A.
In an extraordinary move, the state attorney general booted the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department from a politically charged investigation into county Supervisor Sheila Kuehl. Last week, the sheriff’s department carried out an early morning raid of Kuehl’s home as part of a purported investigation into whether Kuehl pushed L.A. Metro to award a contract to a close friend’s nonprofit. Kuehl — a vocal critic of Sheriff Alex Villanueva — alleged that Villanueva is using a secretive public corruption unit to hit his political enemies. (Jason Henry / Daily News)
The hackers who targeted the L.A. Unified School District computer system have made a ransom demand. Such a demand typically indicates that hackers have either extracted sensitive information — or are pulling a bluff. District officials have repeatedly said that they believe the hackers extracted no sensitive personal information, such as social security numbers or health records. (Howard Blume / Los Angeles Times)
A Culver City fire left 17 cats dead and sent one firefighter to the hospital over the weekend. It took 124 firefighters over an hour to extinguish the fire, which smoldered multiple businesses including CatPlaceLA, a cat hotel. (Rachel Barnes / Patch)
A Chapman student died on a USC student-run film set earlier this year. Now, his family is suing. The parents of Peng Weng allege that the university green-lit the film project knowing that that the students would use off-road vehicles in the desert — Weng died when one of those vehicles rolled — in its wrongful-death lawsuit filed against the school and two of its students. The university said that it was unaware of the project’s details prior to the accident. (Anousha Sakoui / Los Angeles Times)
🌅 California
Rainfall brought a much-needed relief to crews battling the Mosquito fire west of Lake Tahoe, but that same precipitation raised the risk of flash floods in the muddy hills scarred by the state’s biggest blaze of the year. (Soumya Karlamangla and Kellen Browning / New York Times)
🚨 In case you missed it
The American Civil Liberties Union and L.A. county officials have agreed to a proposal that would address what activists have called “abysmal” conditions in the county’s jail system. Previously, the ACLU had made noise about the jail system that it said chained inmates — many of whom had not yet been convicted — to chairs for days and forced them to sleep on concrete floors with no bedding. (Fred Shuster / City News Service)
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