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A person was killed early Saturday when a vehicle crashed, overturned and caught fire on a Long Beach freeway connector. The single-vehicle wreck happened before dawn on the transition road linking the northbound San Diego (405) Freeway to the southbound Long Beach (710) Freeway. The crash was reported at about...

The LA Jazz Festival will spread across the city for 17 days in August, mixing dozens of free neighborhood concerts with a two-night beachfront finale that organizers hope will establish the event as one of the largest jazz gatherings in the world. The festival, which runs from Aug. 7 through...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. After a slow start, a program that aims to bring thousands of Angelenos living with serious mental illness under court-led care has seen a spike in petitions

For more than a year starting in the spring of 1984, Los Angeles residents lived in fear of a serial killer called the Night Stalker. Richard Ramirez was a burglar and a car thief who went on to torture and kill more than a dozen people in sadistic and horrifying ways. Many of the victims were found in quiet, suburban

A specialized Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department response unfolded in Lancaster Thursday night after a male suspect barricaded himself in the area, bringing the department's Special Enforcement Bureau to the scene. The operation was focused on establishing contact and resolving the standoff without further escalat

A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge denied a request Wednesday to remove a prior conviction for a defendant accused of assault and false imprisonment in allegations from a 2024 armed standoff with a sheriff’s deputy in Castaic. Plea negotiations discussed in open court were unsuccessful, and Raul Martinez,...

Long Beach officials proposed deep cuts as they grapple with dwindling reserves, rising personnel costs, a clawback of federal grants and a slowdown in the local economy. The post City plans to cut hundreds of jobs, from fire captains to librarians, to cover multimillion-dollar shortfall appeared first on LA Local .

Robbery-Homicide Division detectives from the Homicide Special Section are investigating the circumstances. Detectives are investigating the deaths of three adult men found with apparent gunshot wounds inside a Hollywood apartment. Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Hollywood Division responded to a welf

Friends and loved ones gathered Thursday night and Friday morning to remember a teenager killed in a crash involving an electric motorcycle and a Tesla in Burbank earlier this week. A small memorial was seen set up near the intersection of Hollywood Way and Alameda Avenue, where flowers, candles, stuffed animals and ha

A boat carrying 21 suspected illegal immigrants was found more than 70 miles offshore of the Southern California coast Friday, the U.S. Coast Guard announced in a press release. U.S. Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach received a report around noon from a member of the public that a boat smuggling illegal immigra