A convicted felon and known gang member is back behind bars after allegedly trying to push a pregnant 19‑year‑old woman out of a moving car on a Los Angeles freeway last month, authorities said. The incident unfolded around 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 24 when the California Highway Patrol received a 911 call reporting a domestic […]

A shooting that left a man and woman dead in Los Angeles’ Chatsworth neighborhood is being investigated as a murder-suicide, police said Tuesday morning. Officers responded to reports of two people suffering from gunshot wounds in the 20700 block of Como Lane shortly before 9:30 p.m. Monday, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department […]

The spiraling nature of the war raised questions about when and how it would end.

A man trapped on a Redondo Beach cliffside was hoisted to safety during a daring rescue caught on video over the weekend. Los Angeles County lifeguards launched a search Sunday night after receiving a report of someone over the cliff. “Lifeguards initiated a shoreline search by hiking down the trailhead & swimming in from the […]

A woman made a dramatic escape early Tuesday after flames erupted inside a two‑story fourplex in Los Angeles’ Historic South‑Central neighborhood. Firefighters rushed to the 200 block of West 43rd Street around 1:40 a.m. after reports that people might be trapped inside the burning building, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Neighbors directed crews […]

Star of The Evil Dead franchise Bruce Campbell announced Monday that he is battling a “treatable” but “not curable” form of cancer. Campbell did not reveal the type of cancer he is battling, but said that the diagnosis was a shock. “My plan is to get as well as I possibly can over the summer […]

A woman made a dramatic escape early Tuesday after flames erupted inside a two‑story fourplex in Los Angeles’ Historic South‑Central neighborhood. Firefighters rushed to the 200 block of West 43rd Street around 1:40 a.m. after reports that people might be trapped inside the burning building, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Neighbors directed crews […]

It was a different time for America, a different time for journalism. I was a writer with Life magazine covering the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination campaign — the one that resulted in Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis facing off against Vice President George H. W. Bush in the general election. My assignment was to follow Jesse Jackson, who was running an upstart campaign against Dukakis and several others.

A driver involved in a tragic crash that killed a 2-year-old girl and seriously injured two others Monday in Long Beach has been arrested, KTLA has confirmed. Officials with the Long Beach Police Department said the fatal March 2 accident occurred just before 11:30 a.m. at 440 Maine Avenue when the driver, now identified as Lamont Russell, 55, reversed over […]