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In a two-page ruling, Su- perior Court Judge Curtis A. Kin said Los Angeles offi- cials lack the legal authority to carry out a state law that permits the dismantling of abandoned or inoperable RVs in key parts of the state. Assembly Bill 630 allows just two jurisdictions — Los Angeles and Alameda coun- ties — to create programs for taking apart and ultimately discarding RVs that are worth up to $4,000, Kin said in Thursday’s ruling.

“AB 630 provides no such authority to the City of Los Angeles,” he wrote. Los Angeles County gov- ernment covers 10 million people. Los Angeles is one of 88 cities within the county. AB 630, and the city’s ef- fort to implement it, had been strongly opposed by advocates for homeless An- gelenos, who said it would make it easier for the city to seize and destroy vehicles that serve as much-needed shelter for the city’s un- housed residents. The state’s vehicle code currently requires that cities and counties sell im- pounded vehicles that are worth more than $500 at auction.

AB 630, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law in October, increased the fi- nancial threshold for L.A. and Alameda counties, al- lowing them to dismantle ve- hicles worth up to $4,000. That, in turn, spares those jurisdictions from going through the more cumber- some process of auctioning off the vehicles, backers of the bill said. An aide to City Atty. Hydee Feldstein Soto de- clined to comment on the judge’s decision, citing “pending litigation.” But City Councilmember Traci Park, who represents coastal neighborhoods, voiced dismay over the deci- sion, calling it “another ex- ample of activist lawsuits impeding our ability to ad- dress urgent public health and safety concerns while City can’t dismantle the RVs of homeless, judge says By David Zahniser [See RVs, B4] One of California’s larger public employee unions is pushing legislation to make remote work a permanent option for state workers as the clock ticks down on Gov.

Gavin Newsom’s July 1 man- date for most employees to be in the office four days a week.

MEXICO CITY — Mexi- can authorities have killed one of the world’s most wanted drug traffickers, Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho,” founder and leader of the notorious Ja- lisco New Generation cartel, which controls drug smug- gling, extortion, fuel theft and other rackets through- out Mexico. Oseguera, believed to be 59, suffered fatal wounds during a Sunday morning military assault in the town of Tapalpa in Jalisco state, according to the Mexican Defense Ministry.

He died while being airlifted to Mexi- co City for medical treat- ment along with other cartel associates injured in the raid, the military said. Six other cartel opera- tives were also killed in the operation, the military said, and three soldiers were in- jured. The drug kingpin’s killing also triggered violence. As the news spread, apparent supporters of the late cartel boss set fire to vehicles and blocked roads across west- ern Mexico, prompting fears of escalating chaos in com- ing days and weeks.

Oseguera’s death is the most significant takedown of a Mexican capo since the 2016 capture of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the former head of the Sinaloa cartel. El Chapo was extradited to the United States and is serving a life sentence in a U.S. pris- on. The operation comes as Mexican military kills top drug lord ‘El Mencho,’ known for his brutality, was among world’s most wanted cartel leaders.

By Patrick J. McDonnell, Kate Linthicum and Keegan Hamilton [See Drug lord, A4] VERONA, Italy — In fair Verona, L.A., unofficially, takes the torch. While the Olympic flag passed from Italy to France at Sunday’s closing ceremo- ny, handing off the Winter Games from Milan-Cortina to the French Alps, the flame will burn next in L.A. In just over two years, the United States will host the country’s first Summer Games since 1996, welcom- ing an Olympic movement that is surging in popularity but unsteady in a changing world, as the Games return to Los Angeles for the third time.

The Milan-Cortina Olympics are expected to rake in record TV numbers for NBC. They already pro- duced the most-watched women’s hockey game on record as an average of 5.3 million viewers took in the United States’ thrilling over- time win over Canada. The rivalry game contributed to the largest weekday audi- ence for a Winter Games since 2014 with an average of 26.7 million viewers who also watched U.S. star Alysa Liu win the country’s first Olympic gold medal for women’s singles figure skat- ing in 24 years.

The smiling 20-year-old with horizontal stripes in her hair became a sensation in Milan just as 41-year-old mother of two Elana Meyers Taylor did in Cortina d’Ampezzo after the five- time Olympian won her first gold medal in bobsled, jump- ing into the arms of her nanny and, through tears, signing to her deaf children, “Mommy won.”

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