Power has been restored on Wednesday after a widespread power outage affected thousands of people on Christmas Eve. Southern California Edison said a transformer failure Tuesday caused a major power ...

Marissa Wenzke is a journalist based in Los Angeles. She has a bachelor's degree in political science from UC Santa Barbara and is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School. More than 20,000 households ...

A transformer failure caused a power outage in the Downey and Norwalk areas, affecting tens of thousands of customers on Christmas Eve. Outages were reported in Downey at 1:35 p.m. affecting 24,187 ...

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