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Rabbi Haim Ovadia reads the Torah to people attending a Zoom meeting of a virtual minyan from his Maryland home in 2020.(Jacquelyn Martin / AP) Making daylight saving time permanent moved a step close
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Repair crews worked through the night Friday and into Saturday to replace the more than 100-year-old broken pipe with a new steel pipe. Sunset Boulevard remains closed near the site of the spill.
The Department of Homeland Security has eliminated the long-standing "duration of status" rule, implementing a fixed four-year limit on international student and exchange visas.
LADWP says crews made significant progress in fixing a ruptured pipe in West Hollywood.The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power officials said crews made significant progress overnight to repair a rupture in a 100-year-old water main in West Hollywood that caused a massive sink hole and seve...
A tropical storm system in the Pacific Ocean is expected to bring large swells along the Southern California coastline next week.
A pickup truck carrying metal pipes lost its load during an Orange County crash, sending the unsecured cargo spearing through a sedan's rear window.
Two U.S. service members died Friday while defending a Jordanian base from an Iranian aerial assault, the U.S. military reported.
Authorities said the man charged in the death of a 19-year-old nursing student was targeting gang members at a Compton party. Police have made no arrests in a second fatal shooting at the same party.
Delta will launch the only nonstop flights from Los Angeles to Manila by a U.S. carrier starting March 2027.
The U.S. military reports the first U.S. troop deaths from direct Iranian fire since the war's early days.
A massive 17-million-gallon water main break on Sunset Boulevard has closed roads, flooded West Hollywood businesses, and forced local events to reroute as LADWP crews work around the clock.
The death toll from two powerful earthquakes that shook Venezuela last month rose to 5,069 late on Friday, local authorities said.
Taylor Farms is preparing a recall of ingredients potentially linked to a multistate cyclosporiasis outbreak associated with shredded iceberg lettuce served at certain Taco Bell locations, according to a report.
Paul Pelosi has been charged with a misdemeanor hit-and-run after a collision.
Air quality regulators have threatened Lineage Logistics with legal action over a Boyle Heights warehouse fire that left millions of pounds of food to rot.
SoCal Parents and Students looking for Back to School resources to gear up for the upcoming school year.
A suspected DUI driver in a Tesla Cybertruck was taken into custody overnight following a chase that turned into a standoff on the 118 Freeway.
Rabbi Haim Ovadia reads the Torah to people attending a Zoom meeting of a virtual minyan from his Maryland home in 2020.(Jacquelyn Martin / AP) Making daylight saving time permanent moved a step closer to reality this week, when the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to pass a measure ...
Southern California will get a break from extreme heat this weekend before temperatures begin climbing again next week.
This is the first time a federal appeals court has struck down a state ban on such weapons, and it comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider whether bans on semiautomatic rifles violate the Second Amendment.
A cruise ship that travels off the coast of Alaska during the summer has reported its third outbreak of stomach illnesses on board in less than three months.
ICE agents stand guard outside a immigrant detention center in Newark, New Jersey in May 2026. Medicaid officials improperly shared data about millions of people with ICE, who then shared that data with the data analytics firm Palantir, according to new court filings.(Adam Gray / Getty Images) Up...
Cleanup and repair work continued Saturday on a ruptured main that unleashed water and turned West Hollywood streets into raging rivers.
A Tennessee woman was arrested this week after authorities said she tried to drown one of her children in a backyard swimming pool.
America already tried permanent daylight saving time, and it lasted less than a year. Could it work now?
A month after a Los Angeles police officer saved a man's life after he was shot at a World Cup watch party, the two met face to face for the very first time.
People walk inside Pages, a bookstore in Manhattan Beach that's in the Indie Book Crawl.( Linda McLoughlin Figel / Pages)Books can take you to other worlds, times, and next weekend, all over Los Angeles.That’s the goal of the inaugural Los Angeles Indie Book Crawl taking place from July 24 to 26....
Firefighters successfully extinguished a structure fire overnight in downtown Los Angeles. Crews were called to the 1200 block of South Hope Street just after 1 a.m. Saturday for a fire burning on the first and second floors of a building. Firefighters initially tried to battle the flames from...
An internal memo says United Airlines will offer free flight changes for customers who object to the renamed Donald Trump International Airport. United says the message was "poorly worded and not accurate."
From Dairy Queen to Cold Stone, National Ice Cream Day 2026 is serving up some sweet deals.
A manslaughter charge has been filed against a young man accused of towing Kolby Aipa, the late grandson of a legendary Hawaiian surfboard shaper, along PCH in Huntington Beach.
"Thousands of cases" highlight barriers to interstate telemedicine care
Joe Rinaudo hand-cranks an antique film projector.(Robert Garrova / LAist)The new Christopher Nolan epic The Odyssey opens this weekend. And purists will probably want to catch it in a theater to experience it in all of its 70mm glory.But another film screening (albeit a little more old-fashioned...
A vendor at the Crenshaw Farmers Market (Corleone Ham)A new program that gives Angelenos on food assistance the option to have fresh produce delivered to their homes has launched, serving a roughly 20 mile radius around the Atwater Village and Crenshaw farmers markets.Food Access LA, a non-profit...
With crews working around the clock to fix a ruptured water main that shut down West Hollywood’s busiest street earlier this week, officials are looking to achieve three things before declaring things can return to normal in the city. Water rushed through a West Hollywood neighborhood early Th...
The U.S. military on Saturday announced its first troop deaths due to direct Iranian fire since the opening days of the war, with two killed and another missing in an attack on a base in Jordan after days of intensifying exchanges of fire. Friday’s drone and missile attack sent four other serv...
Smoke from wildfires — which are burning more of the Northern Hemisphere as Earth warms — attacks nearly every system in the human body, killing tens of thousands of people a year, numerous medical studies show. It attacks the body immediately, spiking asthma cases with increased ambulance run...
When 17 million gallons of water poured out of a broken water main under Sunset Boulevard into downhill neighborhoods in West Hollywood, family businesses and residents' cars and personal items were in the flood zone.
The detective, Alexander Tan, says he faced retaliation after he and his partner continued looking into the suspicious death of 18-year-old Amelia Salehpour in 2023.
Commissioning murder is "not categorically a crime of violence," even in cases where the killer fulfills the contract, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week, invalidating two felony convictions that stemmed from an oil well dispute in North Dakota.
Tom Brady’s ongoing clash with Logan Paul erupted yet again. The former New England Patriots star slapped the WWE standout during a heated moment onstage at Fanatics Fest on Friday. The two stood face‑to‑face, trading words before Brady suddenly struck Paul, prompting Knicks star Karl‑Anthony ...
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