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LONG BEACH, Calif. — It was 3:30 a.m. on Oct. 9 and the unthinkable was happening all around Shawn Curtis: The boardwalk in front of his two-story beachfront apartment building was gone. The 25-foot-wide sand beach was gone. Salt water poured in from all sides. And now the building was slanting down into the ocean.

Two masked suspects broke into Rafaela Jewelry on the 700 block of South Broadway Street before dawn Thursday, then rammed a van through the store's front door as they fled, leaving behind shattered glass countertops and jewelry scattered across the floor. Los Angeles police had not determined what, if anything, was taken from the shop as of Thursday afternoon.

With high winds raking parts of Los Angeles County and a brush fire burning in the Malibu area, public safety power shut-offs were affecting swaths of Southern California Edison’s service area. About 35,000 SCE customers had their service preemptively cut in Los Angeles County with almost 70,000 more under...

Hot spots glow across a hillside during the Bryson Fire in Malibu AP Photo/Jae C. Hong A fast-moving wildfire destroyed multiple homes in Southern California as hot, gusty weather swept the region on Friday, prompting mandatory evacuations and widespread power outages. Television footage from KTLA showed several residences engulfed in flames in the Orange County community of San Juan Capistrano. Aerial coverage captured emergency crews directing water streams onto two-story suburban homes as fir

Nithya Raman-backed LAFLA faced scrutiny. BY MEGA A Los Angeles city report questioned how up to $87 million in public funds allocated to a tenant legal-aid program backed by mayoral candidate Nithya Raman was accounted for. City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto claimed that some funds allocated to the LAFLA program, which Raman champions, may have been used for purposes other than those...

Over 100 structures, and potentially more, are threatened by a wildfire continuing to burn north of Malibu, according to officials. The blaze comes as swaths of Los Angeles County are under red flag warnings , and thousands of residents face power shutoffs due to elevated wildfire risk on Friday, Oct. 16. The Bryson Fire ignited late afternoon the day before in the Santa Monica Mountains. Firefighters arrived at the wind-driven blaze, which was burning rapidly in medium to heavy fuels, Los Angel

Il Jae Kim’s killing went unsolved for more than 14 years before advances in DNA testing helped identify a suspect, police say

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. - Two Saugus High School students called for help after finding the woman. A retired LAPD detective says the circumstances raise questions about whether a crime occurred. Surveillance video appears to show a man in a white truck leaving an unconscious woman on a sidewalk outside Centurion...

Jeffrey Fairchild died months after a sheriff's deputy broke his neck at an L.A. County jail in 2024. His family has filed a lawsuit alleging excessive force.

While police were chasing him, the driver fired multiple times out of the driver’s side window back at officers, authorities say. The post New body-camera footage shows high-speed police shootout with driver wielding AK-47 appeared first on Long Beach Post .