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Gerard Rivest/500px/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — While Los Angeles County is reporting three locally acquired cases of dengue this year — which is rare for the region — there have been at least 3,085 cases nationally of locally acquired virus so far this year, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. […]
Mario Tama/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Los Angeles County is choosing to continue with the “care first, jails last” approach when addressing the more than 75,000 individuals experiencing homelessness in the county, despite recent pressure from California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom. “We can’t arrest our way out of what’s going on in the streets,” said L.A. […]
Getty Images – STOCK (LOS ANGELES) — The Los Angeles City Council president is demanding answers after security cameras captured two Burbank Police officers allegedly dropping off a homeless man near his office and driving away as he lay on the ground this week. Councilman Paul Krekorian released the video that showed the two uniformed […]
KABC (LOS ANGELES) — Antisemitic hate incidents have plagued Los Angeles County since Hamas launched a surprise terror attack on Israel on Oct. 7, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced Tuesday charges against two men, Klinton Allister Dion and Jarris Jay Silagi, for alleged antisemitic […]
David Crane/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Commuters in Los Angeles are bracing for an all-day traffic nightmare after one of the nation’s busiest freeways was shut down indefinitely by a massive fire that erupted over the weekend in a storage yard underneath the normally congested artery. The 10 Freeway, […]
mbbirdy/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Police in Los Angeles are investigating the deaths of two aspiring models who were found in Los Angeles apartment complexes days apart — one death determined by police to be a murder. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) told ABC News on Sunday afternoon that the death […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — A deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has died after being shot while sitting in a patrol vehicle in Palmdale on Saturday, his office said. “At approximately 6 p.m. an LASD Palmdale Deputy was found in medical distress in front of Palmdale Sheriff Station,” the sheriff’s office said […]
Noelskeez/Twitter (LOS ANGELES) — Los Angeles is launching a new task force to address organized retail crime in the region, officials announced Thursday. The task force will include multiple Southern California law enforcement agencies, including the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, as well as the U.S. Marshals Apprehension Task Force […]
sarayut Thaneerat/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — First responders in Los Angeles County say they were able to rescue a man who drove off a 400-foot cliff on Friday after receiving an alert triggered by his phone. The driver, who rescuers found at the bottom of a ravine, was “bleeding profusely” but survived the incident, according to […]
ATU Images/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office is asking for victims of a man accused of impersonating a doctor to come forward. Stephan Gevorkian, 44, was charged with five felony counts of practicing medicine without a certification, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office announced Monday. “Practicing medicine without a license is […]