How the Birkin bag, the ultimate fashion trophy, became criminal currency latimes.com/california/sto…

GardaWorld heist news: LAPD responded to three alarm calls on the day of the $30 million crime — including once around the time of the break-in. But the thieves were undetected. GardaWorld was alerted, but didn’t detect the intrusion. Story w/ Richard Winton: latimes.com/california/sto…

Update on the California food truck kingpin: he's been charged with 28 counts tied to his alleged taking of nearly $1 million from two dozen-plus customers who paid him for trucks and trailers. Fernando Ochoa Jauregui has pleaded not guilty (w/ Ruben Vives): latimes.com/california/sto…

Kim Christensen was the kind of reporter who had incredible stories, and unfurled them with this rare combination of humility and dry humor that I’ve never really encountered in anyone else. Kim, who won two Pulitzers, has died at 71. Obituary by Doug Smith: latimes.com/california/sto…

A dog-bites-woman story usually isn’t much of a story at all. But an incident in a wealthy L.A. enclave has become something else entirely. This is the tale of billionaire Gary Michelson, his dog Blue, and an aggrieved interior designer. By Laurence Darmiento: latimes.com/business/story…

Los Angeles Times News Quiz this week: Museum walls, water use and Intuit Dome’s opener latimes.com/lifestyle/stor…

South American theft gangs are targeting jewelers — and robbing them on L.A. freeways. The heists, often carried out in broad daylight, have a brazen quality befitting an action movie, or at least a TV police procedural. An inside look at the crime wave: latimes.com/california/sto…

Traffic slowed as the jeweler drove up the freeway. The car in front of her stopped and a man jumped out. She figured he needed help. Then she saw the ski mask and knew: “They are coming after me.” L.A. jewelers are being targeted in brazen freeway heists: latimes.com/california/sto…

These photos, taken 261 miles above Earth from the International International Space Station, show the moon's shadow cast on North America during the solar eclipse.

Downed WiFi, odd noises and a visit from the FBI: Sylmar is reeling — and scrutinizing everything that occurred Sunday, when a complex $30 million heist went down at a cash storage facility. My dispatch from the San Fernando Valley community, w/ @lacrimes: latimes.com/california/sto…

Inside the gambling ring linked to Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani and his since-fired interpreter -- as told by two bettors themselves.

'The guy seemed to run a good shop.'

(w/ David Wharton)

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One of the largest heists in L.A. history went down on Easter: $30 million was stolen by a burglary crew that broke through the roof of a Sylmar storage facility to gain access to a vault. @lacrimes on the mysterious crime: latimes.com/california/sto…