Officers on horseback patrol along Pico Boulevard in the Pico-Robertson area of Los Angeles on Thursday, after the LAPD increased its presence following two shootings of Jewish men this week.
An unhoused man named Roscoe lives in a tent under the 405 Freeway bridge over Venice Boulevard in Culver City. The Culver City City Council has approved a ban on camping on city streets, though it won’t go into effect until officials find a way to clean up the streets without criminalizing the homeless.
Pharmacies in Cabo San Lucas are selling counterfeit prescription pills laced with illicit substances and passing them off as legitimate pharmaceuticals. American tourists who unknowingly purchase fentanyl-laced pills from Mexican pharmacies are at a higher risk of overdose when they ingest drugs far stronger than what they’re expecting.
A Tesla service car drives near a Tesla dealership in Burbank on Thursday. Tesla is recalling 362,758 vehicles in the U.S. because its Full Self-Driving Beta software may cause a crash, according a notice from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration.
Silvia Rázgová is a former photo editor at the Los Angeles Times. She joined The Times in 2022 after previously working for the newspaper and other publications as a freelance photographer. Born in Slovakia, she immigrated to the United States in 2000 and continued her education, receiving a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder. After working as a contract photojournalist for the Rocky Mountain News in Colorado, Rázgová became a staff photographer at the National, an English-language newspaper in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, where she covered daily news, documentary projects, and features for nearly five years. In 2016, she moved to Los Angeles working on commissions as a photojournalist and continued to photograph projects in the UAE and Slovakia. In her personal work she explores the themes of home, loss, belonging and poignancy of life.
