Here at the Center for Investigative Reporting, we excel at finding things: government documents, paper trails, the misdeeds people have tried to hide. It’s serious work. But that gave us an idea: What would happen if we used these skills for things that are less about accountability and more about joy? If we turned our […]

A 39-year-old man was convicted of murdering his girlfriend at a hotel while they were on a vacation in Los Angeles. Luis Antonio Gomes Akay, 39, was found guilty of one count of first-degree murder in the death of Anna Laura Costa Porsborg, 22, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced on April 3. […]

NASA just released the first photos taken by astronauts aboard Artemis II– the first crewed mission to the moon in more than 50 years. The images show Earth from space, in one photo swathed in clouds and in another almost obscured in darkness. The four-person crew includes pilot Victor Glover, the first Black astronaut to […]

An 18-year-old is filing a lawsuit against the city of San Bernardino and the San Bernardino Police Department, saying she suffers from long-term injuries after being body slammed to the ground by an officer. Erin Cowser was 17 years old when the violent incident occurred outside a Food 4 Less store on West 2nd Street […]

Cal Fire Riverside County officials are battling a wind-driven vegetation fire that broke out Friday morning in an area east of Moreno Valley. The Springs Fire was first reported at approximately 10:59 a.m. in the 15900 block of Gilman Springs Rd. The fire is reportedly about 5 to 6 acres as of 12 p.m. Gilman […]

If you have the good fortune of not spending time on Elon Musk’s X, it is hard to grasp just how blatant the anti-Muslim hate coming from GOP lawmakers—and tolerated by their leaders—has become. Take Rep. Andy Ogles, the Tennessee Republican who declared last month that “Muslims don’t belong in American society.” Since that post, […]

Officials with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife confirm that they have caught and humanely euthanized a coyote they said was responsible for attacking two children in Carson. Wildlife officials responded to reports that a coyote attacked and bit a young boy in front of his grandparents’ home in Carson at 8:50 a.m. on […]

A 27-year-old woman has been arrested after investigators say she intentionally set a fire inside a Burbank department store, causing millions of dollars in damage, authorities announced. Burbank police and firefighters responded around 11 p.m. on March 29 to reports of a fire inside a business in the 1800 block of Empire Avenue. When crews […]

A suspect who may have been involved in an earlier shooting in Westmont was shot and killed by Los Angeles police officers early Friday morning. KTLA’s Gene Kang was on Van Buren Avenue near 111th Street, where a canopy covered the suspect’s body as officers investigated the deadly shooting. Video from the scene showed evidence […]