Temperatures are rising in Southern California this week as the Southland faces what could be the hottest day of the summer. To help beat the heat, counties across the region have opened cooling centers. With the heat comes fire weather warnings, risk of illnesses and a high UV index, so the c...
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Los Angeles County has launched a new dashboard aimed at helping residents and public health officials track the effects of extreme heat.
Former President Joe Biden will publish a memoir, "Promise Me, America," which he says will touch upon everything from the economy to his decision to drop his bid for reelection.
Heavy smoke from several large wildfires blazing in Canada and Minnesota is expected to engulf large swaths of the Midwest and Northeast U.S. this week, exposing millions of people to dangerous air pollution.
Distinguished U.S. marine biologist Kent Carpenter, 73, was fatally shot by three masked intruders at his home in the central Philippines. The deadly attack happened just two months before Carpenter was set to retire.
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Commuters already have enough challenges to get to work on time, but new video shows the moment a man held up traffic while messing with a Metro bus in Koreatown.
Workers at a Vons in Granada Hills say corporate managers forced them to keep the store open for hours while a deceased customer's body lay in the aisle.
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Despite the surge elsewhere, California is not among the states currently experiencing an increase in cyclosporiasis cases, health officials say.
The Los Angeles Police Department ended its contract with Flock Safety and its network of surveillance cameras, and more reactions are pouring in.
(AFP / via Getty Images ) Iran threatened to block all oil exporting routes in the region on Wednesday in response to the U.S. maritime blockade of Iranian ports in the Strait of Hormuz. A statement by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard said the U.S. "must expect other oil and gas export routes t...
A 79-year-old man died, and three people are still missing after 16 others were rescued from the waters in the San Francisco Bay when a boat sank while carrying mostly family members as part of a memorial service, authorities said.
President Trump has overturned the temporary pause on ICE traffic stops, according to a source familiar with the discussion, allowing the traffic stops to resume.
A group of 26 Meta employees has sued the company, claiming it used artificial intelligence systems to select people for layoffs, disproportionately targeting those on medical, parental or family leave.
A Princess Cruises crew member has died after going overboard from the Regal Princess near Cancún, prompting an eight-hour search off the coast of Mexico.
OutfestNEXT, a 4-day film screening series that celebrates LGBTQ+ storytelling, will return to Los Angeles starting Thursday, July 23.
Oscar Ordoñez sits near a sign informing customers that his taco stand has relocated because of the Lineage warehouse fire.(Isaac Ceja / Boyle Heights Beat)This story first appeared on The LA Local.When the smoke from the Lineage warehouse fire in Boyle Heights cleared, Guido Borjas, 71, and his ...
Slavery panels were replaced at the President's House site in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania amid a months-long battle with the Trump admin.
A former foster parent says she was devastated to learn of the death of a 2-year-old Antelope Valley boy she helped raise for nine months.
The incident marks the fourth "bank jugging" case filed in Ventura County over the last four months.
The Janss Steps at UCLA.( Reed Hutchinson / Courtesy UCLA)The University of California will still evaluate the role of the SAT in undergraduate admissions, despite media reports indicating that the revered public university system suspended those deliberations.The confusion comes at a time when a...
A pedestrian was struck by three different vehicles in Long Beach, police said. None of the drivers stopped. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
Jashanpreet Singh was sentenced to over four years in prison for a 2025 crash that claimed the lives of three people on the 10 Freeway in Ontario.
Disgraced R&B star R. Kelly has formally asked President Donald Trump to commute his 30-year sentence for sexual misconduct convictions.
The family of 21-year-old aspiring nurse Lanai Dees is pleading for the public's help to find the gunman who shot and killed the aspiring nurse.
Extreme heat sticks around in Southern California on Wednesday before relief arrives by the end of the week.
Jashanpreet Singh of Yuba City was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison in the crash that claimed the lives of three people.
A Houston woman's pole dancing ended in disaster after the pole hit a fire sprinkler and flooded her and a neighbor's apartment.
Thousands of California-licensed drivers are being required to retake their written tests because the DMV reportedly suspects them of cheating.
A man running from an encounter with immigration and other federal agents in Florida was struck and killed by a tractor trailer on Tuesday, authorities said.
Lanei Dees was shot and killed in South LA's Gramercy Park neighborhood in 2024.
Southern California faces its hottest day of the year as an extreme heat wave brings triple-digit temperatures and critical red flag fire risks through Thursday.
The U.S. military launched another wave of strikes against Iran on Tuesday, continuing operations that resumed the previous evening. The daytime attacks marked an escalation in the campaign aimed at limiting Iran's ability to disrupt commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
According to the LAPD, the driver tried to ram a patrol car and was arrested after the chase.
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Officials also said they anticipate cases of cyclosporiasis to continue increasing in the U.S., possibly through the end of August.
Doctors are renewing a push to warn parents about burn risks from squishy toys like NeeDohs
This comes after the latest order that ICE will not conduct vehicle stops anymore following Texas and Maine shootings.
Nearly one month after the warehouse fire in Boyle Heights, there's still millions of pounds of rotting food inside the 250,000-square-foot section of the warehouse that wasn't destroyed.
Days of back-and-forth strikes by the U.S. and Iran across the Middle East have shredded the interim deal to end the conflict and the region could tip back into all-out war.
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