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Rick Montanez reports on the latest 91 Freeway shooting arrest and the ongoing investigation.

Keith Birmingham | photographer Keith Birmingham is a Los Angeles-based photographer specializing in sports, editorial and portrait photography. He has been a staff photographer for 24 years with the Los Angeles Newspaper Group including the Pasadena Star-News, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Whittier Daily News and Los Angeles Daily News. His work has appeared in Sports

Los Angeles County Supervisors Janice Hahn and Holly Mitchell introduced a motion on Friday, Oct. 1, that would have officials prepare for a key bureaucratic step on the way to returning two parcels of beachfront land to the family of the original Black owners. The supervisors submitted the motion — which would also have officials

Los Angeles County public health officials reported 1,535 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases to 1,459,182 as of Thursday, Sept. 30. The total number of cases represents 14.4% of Los Angeles County’s population. Officials reported 28 more deaths linked to the coronavirus, for a total of 26,106 deaths since tracking

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rep. Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, announced 30 endorsements on Thursday, Sept. 30,  from current and former elected officials in Southern California, including eight U.S. Congress members, four L.A. City Council members and two L.A. County supervisors. Local government endorsements include Los Angeles councilmen Mike Bonin, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Curren Price and Mark

Leslie Marin reports on the real life scandal surrounding Real Housewife of Beverly Hills Erika Girardi.

Los Angeles County public health officials reported 1,436 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of cases to 1,457,672 as of Wednesday, Sept. 29. The total number of cases represents 14.4% of Los Angeles County’s population. Officials reported 31 new deaths linked to the coronavirus, for a total of 26,078 deaths since tracking

A local woman Thursday went public with a very personal and devastating fight in an effort to get her sister — who went from the girl next door to living on the streets — the mental health help she desperately needs.

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Marshall Cohen | CNN Olympic gold medalist Klete Keller pleaded guilty Wednesday to a felony charge of obstructing the Electoral College proceedings on January 6 — and in a surprise move, plans to cooperate with the Justice Department and potentially testify against other alleged rioters. The deal with Keller suggests prosecutors

With just 2½ weeks left for Los Angeles Unified employees to comply with a COVID-19 vaccine mandate, not all district staff are fully vaccinated, raising the question of how many might be placed on unpaid leave or fired if they don’t meet the Oct. 15 deadline for getting either the second of a two-dose vaccine

LOS ANGELES — Councilman Mitch O’Farrell was elected the City Council’s president pro tempore Tuesday, replacing Councilman Joe Buscaino, who is running for mayor. “I appreciate the vote of confidence — it’s a great honor,” O’Farrell said. He spoke about the work the City Council has done in the last year and a half of

A union of 24,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses and other workers who say they’re understaffed and facing a revamped pay system that would fuel more shortages announced their bargaining team will vote next month to authorize a strike if needed. The Southern California nurses, pharmacists, rehab therapists, social workers, physician assistants, speech therapists, midwives and optometrists

About 30 people gathered outside the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors offices on Monday, Sept. 27, to urge state and county officials to extend COVID-19-era tenant eviction protections. The rally, organized by Keep Los Angeles Housed, and Right to Counsel, came a day ahead of the supervisors’ meeting, where they will consider extensions, which

A boy underwent surgery after being hit by a stray bullet in what is believed to be a gang shooting in Inglewood. He is expected to survive. Dave Lopez reports.

Griffin Colapinto had a good feeling going into the U.S. Open of Surfing, an intuition that it was finally his time to win the title. The San Clemente surfer won a junior title at age 16 at the Huntington Beach event and has come painfully close at the main event, but it wasn’t until Sunday,

A new California law that allows judges to grant diversion to first-time misdemeanor DUI offenders has created a quagmire in the legal system, leaving criminal defense attorneys and prosecutors warring over its interpretation and judges conflicted over a lack of clarity. One attorney described the law, introduced last year as Assembly Bill 3234 by Assemblyman

Ja’Shar Bryant said he was shopping for curtains when he overheard the boy tell his mother that he lost his cellphone. The woman then accused Bryant of stealing the phone, which was later found to be still in the woman’s vehicle.

Coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths in Los Angeles County have continued trending downward, health officials said Saturday, Sept. 25, providing some reassurance that higher vaccination rates and safety precautions at Labor Day celebrations helped avert the usual increase in cases experienced after major holidays. Health officials also reported Saturday that Los Angeles County had moved

Hermela Aregawi reports from Long Beach where a family is grieving over the shooting death of a husband and wife Saturday night, after what neighbors described as an argument over parking.

A clean white T-shirt and a black marker. Those are the only tools Doug Pitt needs — along with a smile on his face — to undertake his annual quest at the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach: Getting as many signatures as he can. Pitt, a Downey resident, has headed to downtown Long Beach