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LOS ANGELES — The first of four Wabtec FLXdrive battery-electric locomotives for Union Pacific have arrived in Southern California to begin testing, UP has announced. Two of the units are now on hand, with two more to arrive in October. Testing will be conducted in the greater LA area, UP says. “Union Pacific has never

Torrance police responded on Wednesday to a call reporting multiple bombs on the South High School campus, according to authorities. Police received the call shortly after 11:30 a.m., then the caller hung up on dispatchers. Officers responded immediately to the high school, and school administrators placed the high sch

Actor Jonathan Taylor Thomas was arrested on suspicion of obstruction and public intoxication Monday during a traffic stop in Malibu, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Thomas was a passenger in a car encountered by deputies at about 12:30 a.m. at the intersection of Westlake Boulevard and Townsg

Missing Pico Rivera man has been identified as the person found dead on the embankment along the southbound 605 Freeway in Baldwin Park Friday, Baldwin Park News has learned. Its victim was initially listed as an unidentified John Doe after his passing, before the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner confi

A “large altercation” Wednesday morning at Downey Park, adjacent to Downey High School, has led Modesto police officers to investigate the incident, the Modesto City Schools district reports. “During the incident, students in the area reported hearing a loud bang,” Downey Principal Ed Taylor said in a letter emailed to

Los Angeles, CA. — Two men were sentenced to federal prison Aug. 28 for leading a scheme that used counterfeit iPhones, iPads and other devices to obtain genuine Apple products, causing the company at least $16.2 million in losses, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California.

DOWNEY — One-bedroom asking rents in Downey rose 2.1% over the past year, bucking declines in many Southern California cities, according to a Zumper housing report released Monday. The median asking rent for a one-bedroom unit in Downey was $1,930 a month in August, down 0.5% from the previous...

In a Tuesday news release, LAFD said investigators conducted a thorough and comprehensive investigation into the June 17 fire at the cold storage facility. The origin of the weeklong fire was confirmed to be on the roof, at or adjacent to a section of solar panels.

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health says that it is investigating a localized outbreak of flea-borne typhus in a high-density Los Angeles neighborhood.  That neighborhood is Wilshire Center, public health officials said Tuesday in a statement urging people to take precautions to protect themselves and th

Nobody ever looked at a modest building with a red awning in South Los Angeles and thought, “That’s where legends are made,” but then again, nobody who’s eaten at Roscoe’s House of Chicken and Waffles would argue otherwise. The Manchester and Main location is the...