Four Pomona gang members connected to the Mexican Mafia were sentenced Thursday to life in federal prison for racketeering crimes, including the 2020 murder of a federal inmate in Los Angeles, authorities said. Prosecutors said the killing happened inside the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles after the victim failed to pay drug debts […]

San Bernardino County Sheriff’s detectives announced Thursday that they have arrested a suspect tied to multiple armed robberies of students near Mesa Linda Park spanning over a two-week period. He’s been identified as 18-year-old Gabriel Gutierrez Rodriguez of Victorville. Detectives said during the robberies, he brandished a firearm and demanded victims give him various jewelry […]

Los Angeles fire officials are responding to a medical emergency with several patients at a board and care home in Sunland Thursday afternoon, officials said. L.A. City Fire confirms six patients have been transported to the hospital in fair condition. Sky5’s Rich Prickett was over the scene in the 10500 block of Whitegate Avenue. He […]

Officers with the California Highway Patrol are in a standoff with a pursuit suspect in Los Angeles County on Thursday afternoon.  CHP officer Torres told KTLA that the chase started just before 11 a.m. when officers tried to stop a white sedan on the northbound 710 Freeway at Rosecrans for speeding, but the driver took […]

Two people were killed in an apparent stabbing early Thursday morning near the Riverside County courthouse, authorities confirmed. Officers with the Riverside Police Department responded between 2 and 2:30 a.m. to reports of a person down near 12th Street and Orange Street, according to department spokesperson Officer Steve Espinosa. When officers arrived, they located one […]

Donald Trump says he’s bombing Iran to prevent the regime from obtaining a nuclear weapon. But he may be providing with Tehran more incentive to sprint toward developing a nuclear bomb, which is now easier for Iran to make—thanks to Trump. After Trump, during his first White House stint, ripped up the Iran nuclear deal […]

Southern California is seeing a major warm-up Thursday, with a heat advisory in effect across much of the region as temperatures climb well above normal for March. KTLA meteorologist Henry DiCarlo said the region is already starting the day warmer than usual, setting the stage for hot afternoon conditions. Downtown Los Angeles was about 59 […]

This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. “We have to get used to the idea of eating insects.” This proclamation came from, of all people, an insect researcher. Dutch entomologist Marcel Dicke pitched eating bugs in his 2010 TED talk as critical to sustainably feeding a growing human population, because […]

An Orange County man has died after he was bitten by a rattlesnake while mountain biking in Irvine. Julian Hernandez, 25, of Costa Mesa, was biking at Quail Hill Trailhead on Feb. 1 around 11 a.m. when he was bitten. Authorities responded to the scene and transported him to the hospital where he fell into […]