Hello, and welcome to this week’s selection of top stories in pictures.
On Sunday “Everything Everywhere” dominated this year’s Academy Awards, taking in seven Oscars, including awards for lead actress Michelle Yeoh, and supporting categories for actor Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis. Peruse the full list of winners and take a look at exclusive photos from behind the scenes.
Michelle Yeoh accepts the award for actress in a leading role at the 95th Academy Awards ceremony in the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday.
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Director Daniel Roher and Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, embrace after “Navalny” won the Oscar for documentary feature.
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By the time the Red Line Metro train arrived at the Wilshire/Western station, a man inside it was doubled over and nearly motionless, his mind having disappearing into a fentanyl daze. Fearful of continuing to encounter the “horror” of deadly drug overdoses and crime on Metro trains, L.A. commuters are bailing.

Top: Matthew Morales smokes fentanyl on the Red Line in the Metro subway. Above: A.J. Jackson, foreground, prepares to smoke the drug on Feb. 28 at the MacArthur Park Metro station in Los Angeles.
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“Don’t walk too fast… let ‘em see you.” At this California prison, inmates step into a spotlight graduating as alcohol and drug counselors.
Richard Teer, 46, in his cap and gown ready for Offender Mentor Certification Program graduation ceremony at California State Prison in Lancaster.
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A three-day LAUSD teacher and staff strike that plans to shut down Los Angeles public schools is scheduled to start on Tuesday.

Top: Sylvia Garcia, second from left, from Bassett Street Elementary School, walks with fellow teachers and other L.A. Unified employees at a rally at Grand Park in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday evening. Above: A crowd of United Teachers of Los Angeles, SEIU 99 members, and supporters held the joint rally in a historic show of solidarity. The rally drew thousands of participants, filling so much of the park that loudspeakers could not even reach participants more than a block away.
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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says the city will house 4,000 homeless people during her first 100 days. The mayor reaches her 100th day on Tuesday.
Phil Guarneri sits at the opening of his tent pitched on a sidewalk behind Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in February, waiting for a bus to ferry him to a motel under Mayor Karen Bass’s initiative “Inside Safe.”
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“We learned that the devil isn’t somewhere underground — he walked among us.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke of Russian atrocities in Bucha. The bereaved Ukrainian town wants justice. Find out why the U.N. might not offer much help.

Left: Each flag signifies a fallen Ukrainian soldier. Right: Parishioners take part in a service in Bucha, Ukraine, on the anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country.
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Three members of the Ostrovskii family, including Viktorya, 51, Anatoli, 75, and Vyacheslav, 32, were buried together in a single grave at the Bucha cemetery on April 22, 2022. The three had been shot and killed by Russians on March 7, as they tried to flee Bucha.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom will this week announce plans to transform San Quentin, one of the state’s most storied prisons, using a Scandinavian prison model that emphasizes rehabilitation.
Inmates make phone calls in the Little Scandinavia unit at the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution in Chester, Pa., on March 9. The unit is designed to give prisoners a sense of autonomy over their space.
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The Scandinavian prison model encourages collegiality on the theory that inmates can learn to make better choices when they are not preoccupied by fear and violence.
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He eats, sleeps, walks, bikes and drives with his parrots. Chan the Birdman wants L.A. to love macaws as much as it loves dogs.

Chan Quach, also known as Chan the Birdman, rides as his six Hyacinth macaws, the world’s largest parrots, fly with him along the San Gabriel River Trail in Azusa. Running alongside at left is his dog Dede, a Jack Russell terrier.
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“We have trauma that has accumulated in our DNA across time, across generations.” In Indian Country, everybody seems to know somebody who’s gone missing or been murdered.

Yurok Tribal Police Chief Greg O’Rourke stands on the bridge in Pecwan, Calif., where Emmilee Risling, 32, was last seen before she disappeared in October 2021 in Humboldt County. According the National Information Crime Center, 84% of Indigenous women experience some form of violence in their lifetime. Those living on a reservation are killed at 10 times the national murder rate.
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A run-down motor home sits above the Klamath River, at the far corner of the Yurok Reservation called End of Road, near where Emmilee Risling was last seen before she disappeared.
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A homeless housing nonprofit’s buildings are in shambles. City plans intervention. / IRFAN
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California deals with surging rivers, sliding rocks and flooded towns as storm passes
Photos: California battered by destructive flooding, evacuations
SoCal sees record rainfall as storm brings flooding, evacuations and power outages in NorCal
After homes flood in Tulare County, decision to pave over creek for new houses draws blame / GINA
Battered by destructive flooding, California braces for another atmospheric river storm / OVALLE
The sog slog continues: Forecast calls for even more rain through March
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-16/la-me-mid-march-storm
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After major San Clemente landslide, officials warn next storm could force more evacuations / SCHABEN
Dramatic drone photos show where land gave way under cliffside residences in San Clemente / SCHABEN
Photos: Poised at edge of landslide, home is knocked down by demolition crew
schaben / landslide demolition GIF?
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Flush with rain, California plans to replenish drought-depleted groundwater with floodwaters / RECENT RAIN
Water restrictions lifted for millions in SoCal, but region still urged to conserve
Times Photography Staff, Silvia Razgova
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