A man was killed in a suspected hit-and-run after a driver struck him multiple times in South Los Angeles early Thursday, authorities said. The incident occurred around midnight in the 1700 block of West Florence Avenue. Los Angeles Police Department officers responded to reports of a vehicle-versus-pedestrian crash. Witnesses told police the driver drove onto […]

PHOENIX (AP) — Mary Rose Wilcox and her husband marched and fasted alongside César Chavez. They helped him open a radio station in Phoenix and plastered their Mexican restaurant with photos and a mural of the widely admired Latino icon. So when Wilcox’s daughter called this week to inform them of sexual abuse allegations leveled […]

The moment gunfire erupted as police officers responded to a report of a man with a gun in downtown Los Angeles was captured on video early Thursday morning. A large police presence was visible as officers gathered outside a motor home near East 7th Street and Ceres Avenue around 4:11 a.m. At some point during […]

U.S. Coast Guard crews have been called in to help secure several containers left dangling and in danger of falling from a cargo ship at the Port of Long Beach. At least 32 containers were lost overboard during the OOCL Sunflower’s voyage from Taiwan to the West Coast, officials said. The vessel encountered rough seas, […]

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Thousands of Los Angeles public school teachers and education workers rallied in the shadow of city hall Wednesday after a decision to strike in the coming weeks was made if district officials do not meet their demands. The looming April 14 deadline for a potential walkout comes as union leaders with United Teachers Los Angeles say their members have been working without […]

A man was arrested in connection with the stabbing deaths of two people in downtown Riverside. The Riverside Police Department identified the suspect as Cesar Aguirre, 28, of Perris. On March 12, officers responded to 12th and Main streets just before 2:30 a.m. The first victim, Richard Hinds, 54, was found with significant injuries and […]

New details have emerged in a bizarre homicide investigation involving a nonbinary suspect and a 92-year-old victim who was discovered after a seven-hour standoff inside his Hermosa Beach residence over the weekend.   The March 14 incident occurred just after 12:30 p.m. in the 500 block of The Strand, near the intersection of 6th Street and Beach Drive, according to HBPD. Police officials told KTLA that officers initially responded to the […]

While the case remains under investigation, officials with the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office have identified a 33-year-old man found dead in the driveway of an upscale Pacific Palisades condo complex this week. The March 17 incident, which occurred just after 2 p.m., was initially reported as an apparent fatal hit-and-run. As the investigation unfolded, detectives with the Los Angeles Police Department told KTLA that was not the case and that they did […]