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July 8, 2026 Contact: LAgeneralPIO@dhs.lacounty.gov LA General Medical Center, CARES and LA General Foundation Provide Critical Relief to Patients Affected by the Lineage Logistics Warehouse Fire Patient-focused resource event provided food, N95 masks, air-filtration support, re...
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All eight of the Southern California matches will be at SoFi Stadium, or L.A. Stadium, as it will be called during the World Cup. (Gregory Bull / LAist)As Los Angeles revels in the World Cup, advocates who operate an ICE rapid-response hotline say they've seen an uptick in calls ...
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A 17-year-old faces eight charges, including two felonies, after a reckless e-motorcycle pursuit through Ventura streets and the Buena High School campus....
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A suspect was taken into custody Wednesday afternoon following a standoff with police at MacArthur Park, authorities said.
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A University of California campus police officer pushes a pro-Palestinian protester away from a moving San Diego Sheriff's bus with arrested protesters onboard at UC San Diego in San Diego on May 6, 2024.(Adriana Heldiz / CalMatters)For many public colleges and universities in Ca...
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Coast Guard crews attached flotation devices to a sunken boat in Lake Michigan and then inflated them, raising the boat above the water. The boat sank on Sunday during heavy fog and rain when the pumps could not keep up with the water....
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Liza Colón-Zayas and Jeff Hiller presented the nominees on Wednesday morning. Winners will be announced at the 78th Emmy Awards on September 14. Read analysis below or click here for the list of nominees. The nominations look familiar — up to a point. There are plenty of expe...
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Authorities said the suspect appeared to have named his faction after the Nickelodeon animated series "Rugrats," a show about a group of toddlers and their day-to-day lives....
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A family is suing a fitness and hospitality center in El Segundo after their toddler allegedly suffered a severe brain injury when an employee threw him up in the air and failed to catch him....
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Thomas Kail is an Emmy and Tony award-winning Broadway director who worked with Lin-Manuel Miranda on the smash-hit stage productions 'Hamilton' and 'In The Heights.'...
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Food-tech entrepreneur Alex Canter has raised $2 million to launch Maggie’s Refuel, a luxury gas station and boutique market opening in Beverly Hills in 2027....
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Santa Ana voters will be asked in November whether to keep a 1.5% sales tax from sunsetting in 2029.(Getty Images / iStockphoto)Santa Ana’s Measure X — a 1.5% sales tax — is scheduled to decrease starting in 2029, meaning the city could lose out on $30 million in revenue. Voters ...
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Cheetahlicious news! A new "Cheetah Girls" movie is in the works at Disney, with Raven-Symoné, Adrienne Bailon and Sabrina Bryan.
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The two-time Grammy winner will share the stage with some big acts at the world's longest-running music festival for lesbian and queer women in Palm Springs, happening Sept. 30 to Oct. 4....
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LAPD officials have discussed a temporary pause on classes to free up hundreds of officers involved in training new recruits in time for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2028, according to department sources....
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A special retirement took place at Disneyland this week as Benny the security dog hung up his harness.
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Los Angeles prosecutors have identified a body found in a burned car trunk last year as Soledad Lopez, filing premeditated murder charges against three suspects....
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A Long Beach ice cream vendor is recovering from serious injuries after he said he was assaulted while working near the Belmont Veterans Memorial Pier on the Fourth of July. Eliu Ramirez’s eye is still swollen and purple following the holiday attack. He said the assault began ...
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The fatal shooting of a Houston man by a federal immigration officer Tuesday marks at least the eighth death during the Trump administration's immigration crackdown....
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Los Angeles County honored 128 foster youth at Walt Disney Concert Hall for achieving a milestone that statistics show is often difficult to reach: graduating from high school....
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A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame will be unveiled honoring the hip-hop group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony for a 35-year career.
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Justin Bieber is joining the first-ever FIFA World Cup Final Halftime Show, adding another major name to a lineup that already includes Madonna, Shakira and BTS....
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An accused burglar accidentally gave himself away to the police after calling 911 to report his missing pickup truck.
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"Unfortunately, there has been another death of a Mexican national in the United States," President Claudia Sheinbaum said after Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by an ICE agent....
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(GarySe7en / LAist Featured Photos on Flickr)A bill to allow insurance companies to monitor California drivers’ behavior in exchange for potential discounts on their premiums would change the state’s longstanding insurance law, drawing opposition from the Insurance Department as...
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The family of a 66-year-old man who was left seriously injured in a hit-and-run crash in South Los Angeles is asking for the public's help in finding the driver responsible....
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For the second time this year, authorities and hazmat crews responded to the home of an 18-year-old UC Irvine graduate conducting independent cancer research. The family's attorney says it's a misunderstanding over legal chemicals....
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The LAPD was involved in a standoff with a man who barricaded himself in a MacArthur Park restroom after he possibly simulated having a firearm.
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Eight teams are left in the World Cup, and the quarterfinals feature the top four countries in FIFA's pre-tournament men's world rankings.
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Trump criticizes NATO allies at a summit, expressing frustration over their resistance to his Greenland ambitions
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A SigAlert has closed four northbound lanes on the 5 Freeway near the 14 Freeway in Sylmar due to an ongoing brush fire.
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A family is suing a fitness club in El Segundo after they said their child was seriously injured when he was tossed in the air and dropped on the floor at the gym’s daycare. The 23-month-old child was dropped by a daycare worker last March at the Bay Club, according to the la...
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Trump had resumed defamatory attacks against Carroll as his lawyers considered asking the high court to reconsider its decision.
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Families in Ladera Ranch say they want answers as to why several children in their one community have all been diagnosed with the same rare cancer. Megan Matteson says her son Brody was just 17 years old when he passed away from Ewing sarcoma. “He was an outdoor kid. There ...
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Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner has suspended his campaign. Platner said that he and his wife Amy “believe that for the movement to continue, it can’t be me” running, “and for that reason, we are suspending campaign operations.” He added, “This is incredibl...
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LEGO has unveiled a 27-foot-tall World Cup trophy replica made from more than 1.3 million bricks at Rockefeller Center in New York City.
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Los Angeles County public health officials announced Wednesday that a traveler with measles may have exposed people to the virus at LAX and aboard a rental car shuttle after arriving in Southern California last week. The traveler arrived aboard British Airways Flight 281 at LA...
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One Bay Area restaurant caused discourse online after a post went viral last week on the establishment's policy about fining parents when their children run around and are unruly....
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Riverside police have released a photo of a 62-year-old man in custody who is suspected of sexually abusing multiple victims over a period of 25 years....
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The 33-year-old driver was arrested at the scene on suspicion of driving under the influence.
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Nearly 1,000 people in Michigan have been diagnosed with a parasitic infection that can cause weeks of watery diarrhea, making it the largest such outbreak in state history and one of the nation’s largest in years. No deaths have been reported and the source of the cyclospora ...
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The California DMV has ordered 11,000 drivers to retake their written exams within 30 days or face license cancellation following mysterious test "irregularities."...
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The opening of a new, larger terminal at Hollywood Burbank Airport has been scheduled for Oct. 13, according to an updated project timeline.
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A man has been arrested in Oklahoma City after allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at a man in a wheelchair outside Oklahoma City Police Department headquarters....
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A lawsuit filed against the Bay Club El Segundo alleges a toddler suffered a traumatic brain injury after an employee dropped him, and claims the daycare lacked a license....
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) welcomes US President Donald Trump upon his arrival at Etimesgut Air Base near Ankara, on July 7, 2026, before attending the 36th NATO Heads of State and Government Summit.(ABDULLAH GUCLU / AFP via Getty Images) President Donald Trump sa...
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A Long Beach ice cream vendor is recovering from serious injuries after he says he was assaulted while working near Belmont Veterans Memorial Pier on the 4th of July....
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Security planners for the 2028 Olympics have estimated at least 24,000 police officers will be needed over the 66 days of the events to protect venues across Southern California, and plans are in motion to bring in extra help from around California and the rest of the country. ...
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Illegal fireworks burned everything an Inland Empire family had, they say as they’re forced to navigate the loss of a home that’s been in the family for four decades. Video shows San Bernardino residents trying frantically to hose down flames from the Scott family’s home after...
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Exhausted Skid Row merchants' rep: "If something is working down here, you can't prove it by me."
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Ventura County health officials confirmed on Wednesday the first mosquitoes to test positive for West Nile virus in the county this year. The Ventura County Environmental Health Division said the California Department of Public Health confirmed that mosquitoes collected in the...
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A suspected DUI crash involving three vehicles left four people injured after a car jumped the curb and struck outdoor diners at a Boyle Heights Mexican deli....
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Five pedestrians were injured, one suffering a double leg amputation, after a suspected DUI driver jumped a curb into a Boyle Heights outdoor dining area....
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Lawyers for the man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk are expected to keep questioning the reliability of DNA testing that prosecutors said links the defendant to the suspected murder weapon when a weeklong hearing continues Wednesday....
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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is demanding additional action from Lineage as residents near a Boyle Heights warehouse damaged by a fire continue to report ongoing impacts....
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Late filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner has received a posthumous Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his work on FX’s acclaimed series “The Bear.” The nomination, announced Wednesday morning, recognizes Reiner’s performance as Albert Schnurr, a busi...
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A 37-year-old mother of five, Jessica Flores, was struck and killed by a suspected DUI driver in a dark industrial area of Pacoima overnight.
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Hulu is revisiting one of the largest unidentified human remains cases in the United States, second only to 9/11, in "Return to Fox Hollow," streaming now....
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Introducing, the Los Angeles Queens. LA’s Women’s Professional Baseball League team was one of four franchises to unveil its nickname and logo Wednesday ahead of the WPBL’s inaugural season. Los Angeles’ team name, like those of all four teams, was inspired by a pioneering fi...
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The father of Lauren Bennett - the singer featured on LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem" - is sharing new details on her death.
