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Businessman Rick Caruso and U.S. Rep. Karen Bass waited Tuesday night for the first results in their historically expensive race for mayor of Los Angeles, with the first returns expected sometime after 8:30 p.m.The battle between the mall developer from Brentwood and the onetime community activist from South Los Angeles offered the sharpest contrast for the city’s top job in nearly three decades. Caruso’s $100 million in spending thrust him from relative obscurity to within reach of victory, while Bass’ firm hold on the…

With the mayor’s race tightening, The Times spread out across Los Angeles to talk with voters about who they‘re supporting and why.This is what Rick Caruso supporters had to say about their candidate. (Read what Karen Bass’ supporters had to say here.) ‘A political outsider ... a clean slate’ Name: Grant PerkinsAge: 50Occupation: Mortgage loan originatorNeighborhood: Harbor CityAt Ken Malloy Harbor Regional Park in Harbor City, people milled about the trails and geese pecked at the ground. Grant Perkins, 50, walked…

The race for mayor of Los Angeles was tightening rapidly as it entered its final week, with Rick Caruso cutting deeply into Rep. Karen Bass’ lead, putting him within striking distance in the contest to run the nation’s second-largest city. Bass continues to hold an edge, 45% to 41% among likely voters, with 13% saying they remain undecided, according to a new UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll, co-sponsored by The Times. But Bass’ advantage is within the poll’s margin of error and strikingly smaller than…

Hello, it’s Wednesday, Oct. 26, and here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today:TOP STORIES Bass and Caruso on public safety and policingAlthough L.A. mayoral candidates Karen Bass and Rick Caruso have offered different visions on crime, public safety and policing in the lead-up to election day, in some ways they are not as far apart as they appear.Both have advocated for hiring more gang intervention workers, as well as investing in certain alternatives to policing, such as sending unarmed professionals to calls…

Rick Caruso stood in the doorway of a $60,000 house near the Van Nuys Airport, ready to offer tours.Did I just say a $60,000 house?In Los Angeles?Yes, I did.It was impressive, too, as much as a pre-fab, boxy structure can be. And it took just a few days to raise in the backyard of a home belonging to a family that’s renting the place to a Pierce College student for $800 a month. The accessory dwelling unit, as it’s called, has a studio-type layout and feels like a hotel suite. It has a kitchen, bathroom, air conditioning,…

In his Brentwood mansion two years ago, Rick Caruso sat down in front of his iPad, raised his right hand and swore to tell the truth. Over the next nine hours, lawyers for hundreds of USC students and alumnae grilled the developer, then chair of the university’s governing board, about who was to blame for sexual abuse and harassment they said they suffered at the hands of a campus gynecologist.The answers Caruso gave in late October 2020 at a remotely held deposition were sealed from public view by a protective order in…

Rep. Karen Bass and Rick Caruso will face off Thursday night for their second mayoral debate of the general election.Hosted by KNX News, the hourlong radio debate will air on KNX News 97.1 FM and 1070 AM at 5 p.m. It will also stream on KNXNews.com and a re-broadcast will air Friday on Spectrum News.The debate comes at a pivotal moment in the election cycle: The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk began mailing ballots to voters Thursday morning and Nov. 8 is in less than five weeks.Bass finished 7…

Rick Caruso has made significant progress in the race for mayor, closing a large part of the gap with Rep. Karen Bass since August, but the billionaire businessman still trails by double digits among the people who are likeliest to vote. Those findings from the latest UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll, sponsored by The Times, highlight key dynamics as the mayoral race heads into its final weeks:Bass, backed by most of the elected Democratic leadership in California, has a strong hold on her fellow…

Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record — our local elections newsletter. It’s Dakota Smith, with help from Julia Wick, to get you to the November election. As an Assembly member, Karen Bass sponsored the Firefighter Bill of Rights, landmark legislation that protects firefighters when they are the targets of investigations. And in Congress, she’s supported hiring more firefighters.But the city’s powerful firefighter union endorsed rival Rick Caruso this week in the Los Angeles mayor’s race. “Firefighters and…

By Elvia Limón and Jason SanchezHello, it’s Monday, Sept. 22, and here are the stories you shouldn’t miss today:TOP STORIES Bass and Caruso tangledLos Angeles mayoral candidates Rick Caruso and Karen Bass faced off in a nearly hourlong debate Wednesday night, their first ahead of the Nov. 8 election.Both Caruso and Bass laid out their plans on homelessness while castigating their opponent for not doing enough or thinking ambitiously enough to address the crisis.Their respective ties to USC and a recent burglary at Bass’…