Federal agents flooded MacArthur Park on Wednesday as authorities announced a sweeping operation targeting what officials described as a notorious open-air drug market tied to fentanyl and methamphetamine trafficking. The enforcement action, dubbed “Operation Free MacArthur Park,” involved federal and local law enforcement agencies serving arrest and search warrants throughout the area surrounding the park. […]

Three years after Paul Flores was convicted in the 1996 disappearance and murder of then-Cal Poly student Kristin Smart, law enforcement is once again searching for her remains — this time, at the home of Flores’ mother in San Luis Obispo County. Officials with the SLO County Sheriff’s Office confirmed they served a search warrant […]

The suspect involved in a possible road rage crash that left a young child and his uncle dead in West Los Angeles earlier this week has been arrested, police announced Wednesday. The multi-vehicle collision was reported shortly after 4:30 a.m. Monday near the 6800 block of Vista Del Mar in the Playa del Rey neighborhood. […]

Ted Turner, the famed entrepreneur, philanthropist and founder of CNN, has passed away. He was 87 years old. The media mogul passed away on Wednesday, according to a news release from Turner Enterprises, which was obtained by CNN. Turner founded the Cable News Network (CNN), the first 24-hour cable news channel and first all-news television […]

Primm Valley Casino Resorts, the last of the three major casinos near the California-Nevada border, will permanently close its doors on July 4, KTLA sister station KLAS reported. The move came to light after a letter was sent to employees asking them to vacate their housing by July 6, two days after the shuttering of […]

The northbound 110 Freeway remains shut down in San Pedro Wednesday morning as officials evaluate potential structural damage caused by a homeless encampment fire that ignited inside a tunnel Monday night. Officials told KTLA it’s possible the freeway could reopen sometime Wednesday, but it’s unclear when that might happen, if at all. The fire broke […]

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Americans do not care about the climate crisis, only economic issues: That’s the message some wonks have put forth in the past year, as the Trump administration has dismantled environmental protections. But the shift away from climate is misguided, an influential group of progressives […]

In 2002, journalist Vicky Ward—then a writer for Vanity Fair magazine—was assigned to investigate a mysterious New York City financier named Jeffrey Epstein. During her reporting, she stumbled upon sexual abuse allegations against Epstein by Maria and Annie Farmer, whose account was ultimately cut from Ward’s piece, titled “The Talented Mr. Epstein.” That decision sparked […]