Hello, and welcome to this week’s selection of the best picture stories.
On Sunday, “Everything Everywhere” dominated this year’s Academy Awards, taking home seven Oscars, including awards for lead actress Michelle Yeoh and supporting categories for actor Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis. Peruse the full list of winners and take a look at exclusive behind-the-scenes photos.
Michelle Yeoh accepts the award for actress in a leading role at the 95th Academy Awards ceremony at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood on Sunday.
(Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
Director Daniel Roher and Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, embrace after “Navalny” won the documentary Oscar.
(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
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By the time the Red Line subway train pulled into the Wilshire/Western station, a man inside was doubled over and nearly immobile, his mind gone in a fentanyl daze. Afraid of further encountering the “horror” of deadly drug overdoses and crime on Metro trains, Los Angeles commuters are fleeing.
Above: Matthew Morales smokes fentanyl on the Red Line subway. Above: AJ Jackson, foreground, prepares to smoke the drug on February 28 at the MacArthur Park subway station in Los Angeles.
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“Don’t walk too fast… let them see you.” In this California prison, inmates become the center of attention upon graduating as alcohol and drug counselors.
Richard Teer, 46, in his cap and gown ready for the Offender Mentor Certification Program graduation ceremony at California State Prison in Lancaster.
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A three-day walkout by LAUSD teachers and staff that plans to shut down Los Angeles public schools is scheduled to begin Tuesday.
Above: Sylvia Garcia, second from left, of Bassett Street Elementary School, walks with her fellow teachers and other LAUSD employees at a rally in Grand Park in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday night. Above: A crowd of Los Angeles United Teachers, SEIU 99 members and supporters cheered for the joint rally in a historic show of solidarity. The demonstration drew thousands of participants, filling the park so much that the loudspeakers could not even reach participants more than a block away.
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says the city will house 4,000 homeless people during its first 100 days. The mayoress arrives this Tuesday at her 100th day.
Phil Guarneri sits in the opening of his tent pitched on a sidewalk behind the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in February, waiting for a bus to take him to a motel under Mayor Karen Bass’s “Inside Safe” initiative. .
(Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)
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“We learned that the devil is not somewhere underground, he walked among us.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke of the Russian atrocities in Bucha. The grieving Ukrainian people want justice. He finds out why the UN might not offer much help.
Left: Each flag represents a fallen Ukrainian soldier. Right: Parishioners take part in a service in Bucha, Ukraine, on the anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country.
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Three members of the Ostrovskii family, including Viktorya, 51, Anatoli, 75, and Vyacheslav, 32, were buried together in a single grave at the Bucha cemetery on April 22, 2022. All three had been murdered at shot by Russians on March 7. , while trying to run away from Bucha.
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Governor Gavin Newsom will announce plans this week to transform San Quentin, one of the state’s oldest prisons, using a Scandinavian prison model that emphasizes rehabilitation.
Inmates make phone calls in the Little Scandinavia unit at the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution in Chester, Pennsylvania, on March 9. The unit is designed to give inmates a sense of autonomy over their space.
(Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times)
The Scandinavian prison model encourages collegiality on the theory that inmates can learn to make better decisions when they are not preoccupied with fear and violence.
(Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times)
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Eat, sleep, walk, bike and drive with your parrots. Chan the Birdman wants Los Angeles to love macaws as much as dogs.
Chan Quach, also known as Chan the Birdman, rides as his six Hyacinth Macaws, the world’s largest parrots, fly with him along the San Gabriel River Trail in Azusa. Running alongside to the left is his dog Dede, a Jack Russell terrier.
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“We have trauma that has built up in our DNA over time, over generations.” In Indian Country, everyone seems to know someone who has disappeared or been murdered.
Yurok Tribal Police Chief Greg O’Rourke at the bridge in Pecwan, California, where 32-year-old Emmilee Risling was last seen before going missing in October 2021 in Humboldt County. According to the National Center for Information Crimes, 84% of indigenous women experience some type of violence in their lives. Those who live on a reservation are killed at 10 times the national homicide rate.
(Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times)
A dilapidated mobile home sits above the Klamath River, at the far corner of the Yurok reservation called the End of Road, near where Emmilee Risling was last seen before she went missing.
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The buildings of a homeless housing non-profit organization lie in shambles. Intervention in city plans. / IRFAN
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STORMS / PERSONNEL
California grapples with rising rivers, sliding rocks and flooded towns as storm passes
https://www.WhatsNewDay.com/california/story/2023-03-15/california-storm-flooding-rivers-evacuations-rainfall-records
Photos: California hit by destructive flooding and evacuations
https://www.WhatsNewDay.com/california/story/2023-03-12/battered-by-destructive-flooding-california-braces-for-more
SoCal sees record rainfall as storm causes flooding, evacuations and power outages in NorCal
https://www.WhatsNewDay.com/california/story/2023-03-14/another-atmospheric-river-storm-california-11th-this-season
After homes flooded in Tulare County, decision to pave over creek to build new homes blamed / GINA
https://www.WhatsNewDay.com/california/story/2023-03-15/homes-flood-woodlake-tulare-county-some-blame-new-development
Hit by destructive flooding, California braces for another atmospheric river storm / OVALLE
https://www.WhatsNewDay.com/california/story/2023-03-12/central-coast-and-northern-california-prepare-for-the-next-storm
Slog sog continues: forecast calls for even more rain through March
https://www.WhatsNewDay.com/california/story/2023-03-16/la-me-mid-march-storm
video of allen
https://www.WhatsNewDay.com/california/story/2023-03-15/southbound-lanes-of-pch-flooded-between-warner-avenue-and-seapoint-street-in-huntington-beach
After a large landslide in San Clemente, authorities warn that the next storm could force more evacuations / SCHABEN
https://www.WhatsNewDay.com/california/story/2023-03-16/san-clemente-landslide-displaced-residents-next-storm-more-evacuations
Dramatic drone photos show where the earth gave way below cliffside residences in San Clemente / SCHABEN
https://www.WhatsNewDay.com/california/story/2023-03-15/dramatic-drone-photos-show-where-land-gave-way-under-cliffside-residences-in-san-clemente
Photos: On the verge of a collapse, the house is pulled down by a demolition crew
https://www.WhatsNewDay.com/california/story/2023-03-16/photos-landslide-damaged-home-then-a-demolition-crew-finished-it-off
schaben / landslide demolition gif?
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Rain-filled, California plans to replenish drought-depleted groundwater with floodwaters / RECENT RAIN
https://www.WhatsNewDay.com/environment/story/2023-03-11/california-will-use-floodwater-to-recharge-groundwater
Water restrictions lifted for millions in SoCal, but region still urged to conserve
https://www.WhatsNewDay.com/environment/story/2023-03-15/mandatory-water-restrictions-lifted-for-7-million-in-socal
