An armed man was shot and killed by police after he opened fire at officers in Watts late Tuesday, authorities said. Officers responded about 11 p.m. to the area of 113th Street and Wilmington Avenue in response to a report of a man with a gun, said Officer Rosario Cervantes, a spokeswoman for…
By ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Mueller expressed frustration to Attorney General William Barr last month about how the findings of his Russia investigation were being portrayed, saying he worried that a letter summarizing the main conclusions of the probe lacked the necessary context and was creating public confusion about his team’s work,…
By TOM FOREMAN Jr. and SARAH BLAKE MORGAN CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A student with a pistol and no motive that was immediately apparent killed two people and wounded four others at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte before campus police disarmed and arrested him, authorities said. “I just went into a classroom and shot the guys,”…
When Nipsey Hussle was killed outside his Hyde Park storefront in March, the incident brought attention to South Los Angeles and the many ways the rapper influenced the community. His death stirred an outpouring of grief worldwide, but he was one of 29 people who have lost their lives in the Los…
You look out your window and there’s a vegetable garden where your driveway used to be. You pay no auto insurance bills because you haven’t got a car, but you can travel anywhere, anytime. All you do is tap an app and an electric, driverless vehicle pulls up and carts you away to the grocery…
Hollywood studios organize 1932 Electrical Parade charity event in the Memorial Coliseum.
Investigators citing an ongoing homicide investigation withheld the identities of two Placentia residents who were arrested and later released in connection to the 2009 disappearance of a local millionaire, officials said Tuesday, April 30. The arrests were made sometime in April, after a decade of investigation into the presumed homicide of Robert “Bob” Harrod, said…
A fire and explosion destroyed a mobile home in Garden Grove, leaving a man critically injured on Tuesday, April 30. The incident was reported near the 13000 block of Fairview Street at 6:20 p.m., said Garden Grove Fire Department Capt. Thanh Nguyen. Firefighters found a man in his 50s suffering from life-threatening burns who was…
The Los Angeles City Council approved a measure Tuesday that gives civilians a greater role in how police police officers are disciplined for serious misconduct. Officers facing discipline will soon have the option of having their cases heard by an all-civilian panel, one of the most significant…
Ontario firefighters worked Tuesday afternoon to extinguish a blaze at a recycling plant west of Ontario International Airport. Smoke from the fire on East State Street produced a sizable black plume about two miles south of the 10 Freeway but didn’t affect airport operations. By 6 p.m., firefighters…
