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Officials in two more Orange County cities are tightening rules on fireworks ahead of the nation’s 250th birthday celebration on July 4. It comes as a host of cities in the region last year adopted ordinances allowing a property owner to be fined for having illegal fireworks being used on their property as elected leaders have long grappled with trying to curb illegal pyrotechnics...

Claudia Carolina Palacios, a longtime Los Angeles Unified School District special-education aide, says the district cut her loose while she was still out on medical leave after an on-the-job injury in 2022. According to her lawsuit, the injury and subsequent treatment kept her away from the classroom, and she only learned months later that her employment had already been terminated. Recent...

LOS ANGELES - A 24-year-old man serving a robbery sentence walked away from a Los Angeles reentry program Sunday after removing his GPS monitor, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation . Jose Barrios was discovered missing around 2:30 p.m. April 26, when officials found he had removed his GPS device, CDCR said. Officials launched a search, conducted an emergency count...

Ronuk Patel's Hokkaido Fried Chicken brings a decade of trips to Japan's northernmost island to a ghost kitchen on the edge of Koreatown. The post The best fried chicken sandwich in LA is hiding in a ghost kitchen appeared first on LA Local .

Health officials across Southern California are urging millions of residents to stay indoors, shut windows and doors, and avoid outdoor exercise as a windblown dust advisory blankets parts of the region with hazardous air. The South Coast Air Quality Management District issued the formal dust advisory on April 28, 2026, and the Los Angeles County […]

Police are searching for a pair of suspects who broke into a San Fernando Valley home while a family, including two children, was still inside Sunday night. The incident was reported around 11:30 p.m. in the 9500 block of Cedros Avenue in Panorama City, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson confirmed to KTLA. The suspects, […]

Both of the involved officers were able to leave the area safely and call for an ambulance. They were treated and later released, police said.

Atwater Village—A man was found dead this afternoon under a pedestrian bridge that crosses over the Los Angeles River. Firefighters were called to the 3500 block of Ferncroft Road at about 12:30 p.m., said L.A. Fire Department spokesperson Lindsey Lantz. The man, who was believed to be 35-years-old, was declared dead at the scene. Lantz had no further details.

A family is left heartbroken after a tragic drowning at a Lincoln Heights park last week. When a man jumped into a lake to save his son, the boy survived, but his father drowned.

Rapper Luci4, known for his viral hit “BodyPartz,” died from an accidental fentanyl overdose, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner. The cause of death for rapper Luci4 has been released. TMZ reports that the rising rapper, born James Dear, passed away from an accidental fentanyl overdose,...