California will become the fifth state in the nation to allow terminally ill patients to legally end their lives using doctor-prescribed drugs.

Writer Dolores Dorantes received death threats. Then a writer friend was violently killed and someone set fire to the house where an activist she knew lived. And so she fled.

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Jean Rhyne, with the the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve, confirmed to KPCC that there are still flowers to enjoy, including goldfields, forget-me-nots, gold cups and lupine. "It's been beautiful out here… I still recommend people come out," she said. 

Years before Ezell Ford was killed by LAPD officers, he was the victim of another shooting, one that marked a turning point dividing his promising youth from the difficulties he encountered as an adult.

Sound familiar? 

Tim Ryan, publisher of the Baltimore Sun, will take over as Publisher at the L.A. Times.

The Los Angeles Police Department has killed more people than any other law enforcement agency in the United States this year, according to a database compiled by the Guardian newspaper.

"My personality — call me ebullient, if you insist — was shaped long ago," Fischbeck told the Times in a 1977 profile. "When I talk about the weather, I come on strong, like an evangelist making a high-powered tour of Sin City."

Roll out the barrel: Take a virtual stroll through the restored Idle Hour Cafe, an historic North Hollywood gem. 

Last year, a local opera company called The Industry staged an ambitious and immersive production at Union Station in #DTLA. Now the Pulitzer Prize finalist is available as a studio album. 

Happy Friday!