An armed break-in at a Granada Hills home Thursday night marks the sixth reported burglary in the San Fernando Valley within about a week, officials confirmed, raising concerns among residents. The Los Angeles Police Department said officers responded around 8:30 p.m. to the 11900 block of Wood Ranch Road after reports that two to three […]

R&B singer D4vd has been arrested for the murder of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, more than seven months after her body was found in the trunk of a vehicle. Los Angeles Police Department confirmed that David Anthony Burke, 21, of Los Angeles, was arrested on Thursday and is being held without bail. On Sept. 8, […]

Reports of highway violence have traffic at a standstill on the eastbound 105 Freeway at Vermont in Athens, KTLA has confirmed. Officials with the California Highway Patrol said initial calls reporting the violence came in around 1:45 p.m., with additional callers saying there was a vehicle stalled in the HOV lane with a person slumped […]

Last week, authorities in Louisiana issued an arrest warrant for a businessman who they believe has run a vitriolic social media account that for years has harassed and threatened critics of America’s largest hospital landlord—Medical Properties Trust (MPT). Last year, Mother Jones and Reveal investigated MPT and found that its business model was sinking hospitals […]

Three Los Angeles residents have been sentenced after they were convicted in a bizarre insurance fraud scheme that California Department of Insurance investigators called “Operation Bear Claw.” The defendants reportedly used a person dressed in a bear suit to stage fake “bear attacks” on luxury vehicles, then submitted false claims in order to get payouts […]

Dave Chappelle is happy to make tens of millions of dollars on anti-trans comedy routines—”I’m team TERF,” he said in a 2021 special—but now apparently draws the line at Republicans turning those jokes into policy. In a Wednesday interview on NPR’s Newsmakers show, Chappelle said he resents that the Republican Party’s 2024 platform “ran on […]

A baby California sea lion pup was found wandering a San Francisco neighborhood early Thursday morning, prompting a coordinated rescue involving wildlife responders and local authorities. The young pup, now named “Irving,” was discovered near Irving Street and 48th Avenue, just a block from Ocean Beach, according to a statement from The Marine Mammal Center. […]

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he would overhaul a preventive medicine team that risks making screenings more difficult. “[The US Preventive Services Task Force] has been lackadaisical and negligent for 20 years,” Kennedy told members of the House Ways and Means Committee. “We’re going to have, for the first time, transparency.”  As my […]