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A man who says Chicago police beat him into confessing to the 1992 murder of 7-year-old Dantrell Davis is a step closer to finding out whether he’ll get a new trial. One of Anthony Garrett’s attorneys battled a Cook County …

Q: We have a lawsuit against a limited liability company here in California. Do we serve at the business address? Who do we serve? P.M., Anaheim Hills Ron Sokol A: Limited liability companies in California are supposed to designate an …

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN, AP Business Writer Online seller eBay is rejecting an unsolicited $56 billion takeover offer from GameStop, calling the proposal “neither credible or attractive.” Ryan Cohen’s GameStop disclosed earlier this month that it was pursuing a takeover of …

Los Angeles firefighters are expected to deliver more than 225,000 petition signatures to the City Clerk on Tuesday in an effort to qualify a funding measure for the November ballot aimed at expanding staffing, upgrading equipment and building new fire …

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and MATT O’BRIEN, AP Technology Writers OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — In a trial featuring a clash between Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, neither of the tech titans has emerged as an overly sympathetic character. But …

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and GEOFF MULVIHILL HONOLULU (AP) — Two states could try a new way to reduce the influence of corporations and hard-to-track “dark money” groups that have been able to spend unlimited amounts on politics since the …

By JADE LE DELEY ORVAULT, France (AP) — At night, silence fell over the Louisiana immigration detention facility where 85-year-old Marie-Thérèse Ross was held. Then the wailing began. ’’Children crying, and even babies,” said Ross, the French widow of a …

By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists are tweaking a powerful cancer therapy in hopes it could fight HIV instead, by supercharging patients’ own immune cells. On Tuesday, researchers said a single dose of those revved-up cells …

By SAM METZ and MAHMOUD ILEAN AL-EIZARIYA, West Bank (AP) — Israeli bulldozers tore down dozens of Palestinian shops on the edge of a town southeast of Jerusalem this week, clearing land ahead of a settlement-linked road project in the …

Malibu’s downtown nature park is becoming an open-air art gallery as artists pay tribute to the beauty of the seaside city with hundreds of pieces of work, covering the gamut from photography to portraits to abstract art. “It’s a pop-up …

Inflation in Los Angeles and Orange counties hit a 23-month high in April as a war-fueled gas-price surge hit consumers’ wallets. My trusty spreadsheet reviewed the Consumer Price Index report for April for the two Southern California counties and the …