What you may have missed: Santa Monica employed a sexual predator for decades; an Alabama doctor pledges care for the uninsured, those needing post-miscarriage treatment and transgender patients; and California's first wildfire of the season burns in the San Bernardino Mountains.
Southern California has struggled to chop back forest in the name of wildfire prevention, according to a Union-Tribune analysis. The Biden administration now plans to dole out $10 million to ramp up such efforts across the region.