HOLLYWOOD — Los Angeles Police Department officers on Saturday fatally shot a man wearing body armor who drove into their patrol car in Hollywood, the department’s second shooting in two days. The shooting occurred at 2:37 p.m. at Sunset Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, said Officer Rosario Cervantes of the Media Relations Section. Officers were en
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A Torrance woman has been arrested in connection with the murder of a Northern California rapper who investigators say she misidentified as the shooter who killed her boyfriend in Seal Beach last August.
A 20-year-old woman was arrested in connection with a four-vehicle crash early Saturday morning in Sherman Oaks on the eastbound 101 Freeway that killed two people — including a 15-year-old boy. The woman, identified as Bianca Lopez, 20, of Los Angeles, was hospitalized after the crash with moderate injuries and then taken into custody, the
The Royal Princess Hamilton cruise ship docked in the Port of LA in San Pedro on Tuesday, April 20, 2021. As talks continue to restart the cruise industry later this year, cruise lines are outfitting and preparing their fleets to embark on the open seas again. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG) The Royal Princess Hamilton
This story has been updated with discussion of alternative conditions that could be imposed on Poseidon. Ensuring that a desalination plant proposed for Huntington Beach adequately compensates for killing millions of small marine organisms poses the latest hurdle for Poseidon Water’s controversial project. The Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board spent most of its
A high school senior’s decorated graduation cap message. (Photo by Michael Kitada, Contributing Photographer) The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the names of high school students in Los Angeles County on April 21 who are recipients of corporate-sponsored scholarships in 2021. The corporate-sponsored awards are financed by about 140 corporations, company foundations and other business
A Southern California family said they noticed what they believe to be human waste coming out of a low-flying plane over the weekend. Nicole Comstock reports.
Donna Manfredi has been named as the new principal at Golden Oak Adult School in Santa Clarita. (Photo courtesy of William S. Hart Union High School District) Donna Manfredi, an almost 30-year educator in the William S. Hart Union High School District, has been named as principal of the Golden Oak Adult School in Santa
People watch the Raptor Encounter during the reopening of Universal Studios Hollywood, Thursday, April 15, 2021. (Photo by Michael Owen Baker, contributing photographer) Here is a sampling of upcoming in-person and online things to do in the San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles area. EVENTS Grand Park’s Our L.A. Voices – Digital Spring Arts +
Los Angeles public health officials reported 439 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases to 1,229,998 as of Wednesday, April 21. Officials reported 35 new deaths linked to the coronavirus, for a total 23,702 deaths since tracking began. There were 19 more hospitalizations reported since Tuesday, raising the official count of
LOS ANGELES — In an effort to alleviate some financial burdens on Los Angeles restaurants and reduce plastic waste, the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved an ordinance to make disposable foodware, including utensils and napkins, only available at restaurants when requested by customers. The ordinance, which was requested in a motion already
Multiple Los Angeles County Animal Control employees were caught on duty sleeping like a baby or lifting weights in the gym – all while not lifting a finger for taxpayers.
A 19-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a woman and her 8-year-old daughter in Rancho Cucamonga.
Accountability. A path to healing. For one man and his family: Justice. For the country: But one step in a larger journey toward racial justice, too long deferred. Those were the reactions from Los Angeles County’s elected officials on Tuesday, April 20, in the wake of a Hennepin County jury finding former Minneapolis police officer
Two new communities the size of Diamond Bar are on the drawing boards in Los Angeles County’s northern frontier. Both would contain more than 19,000 new homes built over the next two decades, transforming undeveloped valleys and hillsides into houses, schools, libraries and parks. Both ultimately would house more than 57,000 residents in nine new
The Pasadena City Council on Monday, April 19, postponed an effort to consider a pair of nominees to the city’s new Community Police Oversight Commission after concerns emerged over two of the hopefuls’ current service on the same board of a local advocacy organization. Florence Annang and Juliana Serrano sit on the board of the
A view from the San Fernando Valley: Fly fishers talk after practicing casting at Lake Balboa Park, Saturday, April 3, 2021. The Sierra Pacific Fly Fishers meet for casting practice the first and third Saturdays of the month at Lake Balboa. Practice rods and reels are available and it is free and open to everyone.
“You’ve got two minutes or less to get your family out of the house before it’s too late.” — Barbara Mariscal, disaster program manager for the American Red Cross Northern Valleys chapter. Two minutes before the smoke and flames overcome you. Not a lot of time to grab your most valuable possessions, and run. So,
Marines at Camp Pendleton were back in the ocean this week training in amphibious assault vehicles for the first time since nine men died when one of the troop carriers sank on July 30 during a training exercise off of San Clemente Island. The Marine Corps’ fleet of the seafaring vehicles was suspended from all
The search for a 45-year-old hiker from Palmdale who went missing in the rugged terrain of the Angeles National Forest earlier this week had a pleasant ending when rescue crews found him on Tuesday along a remote ridgeline. A photo the hiker, Rene Compean, had texted to a friend was just enough of a clue