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A Los Angeles federal grand jury on Wednesday, Dec. 15 charged a Houston-based oil company and two subsidiaries for the oil spill off the California coast in October.

Texas Pipeline Company Charged in California Oil Spill

Prosecutors said companies failed to respond to eight leak detection alarms over a 13-hour period.

Workers in protective suits walk by as dead marine life washed off on a beach after an oil spill in Newport Beach, Calif., on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021.

California Pipeline Likely Damaged Up to a Year Before Spill

Investigators will pore over a year of data on ship movements near the area of the break.

Cleanup contractors unload collected oil in plastic bags trying to stop further oil crude incursion into the Wetlands Talbert Marsh in Huntington Beach, Calif., Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021. One of the largest oil spills in recent Southern California history fouled popular beaches and killed wildlife while crews scrambled Sunday to contain the crude before it spread further into protected wetlands.

Crews Race to Limit Damage from Major California Oil Spill

An estimated 126,000 gallons of heavy crude leaked into the waters.

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Immigration Judges File 2 Labor Practice Complaints

The union representing the country's more than 400 immigration judges filed a pair of complaints on Friday with the Federal Labor Relations Authority.

Tracy Kahn, curator of the Citrus Variety Collection at University of California, Riverside, shows a sampling of fruit grown on the site in Riverside, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019. The collection forms part of a broad effort to find a solution to a tree-killing disease that has ravaged groves in Florida and abroad.

CA Lab Seeks Cure to Deadly Citrus Disease

Los Angeles researches are opening a new front in the yearslong battle against a tiny pest that has wreaked havoc on citrus groves around the world.