Today, the Florida Legislature will vote on a bill that would make it significantly easier for parents to skip their children’s routine childhood vaccinations. The bill would allow exemptions “based on the parent’s religious tenets or practices or conscience,” meaning essentially that parents would no longer need to demonstrate medical or religious reasons for exemptions. […]

Dramatic body-worn camera footage of a deadly shootout last year in Baldwin Park shows the moment a police officer was killed and another wounded in an incident that also left an innocent bystander dead. The deadly May 31, 2025, encounter began around 7:15 p.m. in a neighborhood on the 4200 block of Filhurst Avenue, where […]

After 34 years, authorities have made an arrest in the kidnapping and murder of Cindy Wanner, who was abducted from a home in Granite Bay, Calif. in 1991. The suspect, 64-year-old James Lawhead Jr., was arrested in Bullhead City, Ariz. on April 24, after the Placer County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case Unit made a breakthrough […]

Three men were arrested Sunday after they were caught burglarizing a Burbank home on the 2700 block of Scott Road, according to police. Officers with the Burbank Police Department were called to the home around 7:20 p.m., after a neighbor spotted several men dressed in black go into the home’s backyard. A suspicious vehicle was […]

Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department are in pursuit of a driver Monday afternoon. It’s unclear what the suspect is wanted for, but officers initiated the chase just before 5 p.m. Sky5 is overhead.

First Lady Melania Trump kicked off the backlash against Jimmy Kimmel on Monday. Donald Trump and Karoline Leavitt soon followed.  Then came the Trump administration’s army of right-wing supporters.  In a skit that aired last Thursday, the talk show host made fun of Trump, his family, and his supporters in a parody version of the […]

The 13-year-old who died after being struck by a train in Simi Valley has been identified as a loving, sports-crazed boy who had a special relationship with his three brothers and his parents.   The Simi Valley Youth Baseball League posted on social media a message honoring the life of Reis Beck, who passed away this weekend.  Authorities in […]

On Monday, the US Supreme Court heard arguments over Bayer AG’s efforts to shut down the thousands of lawsuits alleging its product Roundup, a weedkiller containing glyphosate, causes people to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a type of blood cancer. Bayer, a German company which bought the American agrochemical giant Monsanto, has spent the better part of […]

The man who authorities say tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner with guns and knives has been charged with the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump. Torrance resident Cole Tomas Allen, 31, appeared in court Monday to face charges in a chaotic encounter that resulted in shots being fired, Trump being rushed […]