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LOS ANGELES, Calif. (WAKA) – Tuskegee native and music superstar Lionel Richie has been released from a hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, according to a magazine report. People magazine says Richie is back home in Los Angeles and “doing great.”. As Action 8 News has reported, Richie had...

Surveillance video captured the moment a four-month pregnant hardware store employee confronted a man who allegedly tried to run out of a Palmdale store with a 46-pound air-conditioning unit without paying. The confrontation began inside the Ace Hardware store at Rancho Vista Plaza and spilled into the parking lot and

One person was killed and multiple others injured after an elderly driver crashed her car into a parking attendant stand in the parking lot of a Trader Joe’s in the Beverly Grove area of Los Angeles Thursday afternoon. Los Angeles Fire Department crews responded to the crash at Third Street and Fairfax Avenue around 1:

For decades, the sprawling industrial complex at 511 N. Grand Avenue served as the physical pulse of Orange County journalism. The roaring printing presses of the Orange County Register churned out millions of print newspapers here, anchoring a localized economy built around manufacturing, mechanical press operations,

A 23-year-old South Los Angeles man pleaded guilty this week to a violent robbery spree that spanned Gardena, Carson and Newport Beach, admitting he shot two victims and beat a woman so badly during a casino parking lot robbery that some of her teeth broke. Oshae Pollard now faces at least 10 years in federal prison, w

DOWNEY — Longtime Downey civic leader and former Downey Unified School District board member Martha Sodetani died unexpectedly Thursday, Sept. 3. Details surrounding her death were not immediately available. Sodetani was a prominent figure in Downey for decades, serving more than 17 years on the Downey Unified Board of

An adult man was found dead early Tuesday morning at a massive fuel storage terminal in Carson, and Los Angeles County Sheriff's homicide detectives are now investigating what happened to him. The man was pronounced deceased at the scene in the 2000 block of East Sepulveda Boulevard, and as of Tuesday afternoon, no sus

The Seal Beach Police Department posted a direct PSA reminding visitors that causing disturbances at multiple businesses will not be ignored. Officers emphasized that when people create problems across several establishments, businesses call, police respond, and arrests often follow. The department also warned customer

A child predator suspect dubbed “Ernie the Uber” was arrested during a traffic sting in Santa Ana on Wednesday. Santa Ana police were alerted to the suspect, whose real name is Ernesto Orozco Villa, by a mother who recently discovered suspicious messages on her 16-year-old son’s cellphone. In those messages, requests w

A 58-year-old Huntington Beach man accused of orchestrating nearly $38 million in fraud is being held without release ahead of trial in Tucson, after a federal grand jury indictment accused him of combining a Paycheck Protection Program scam with a much larger commercial loan scheme built on falsified rental records. R