LOS ANGELES — Nearly 60 patients and staff members of a Southern California nursing home have tested positive for the coronavirus and two residents have died in what may be the state's largest outbreak at a single facility, authorities said Tuesday. While testing continues, Cedar Mountain Post Acute Rehabilitation in...
Serial Killer Dubbed Grim Sleeper Dies in California Prison
SAN QUENTIN — Lonnie Franklin, the convicted serial killer known as the "Grim Sleeper" who preyed on the women of South Los Angeles for more than two decades, has died in prison. He was 67. California corrections officials said Franklin was found unresponsive in his cell at San Quentin State...
Coronavirus Cases Hit 2 Largest US Cities Differently
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles recorded its first case of coronavirus five weeks before New York City, yet it's New York that is now the U.S. epicenter of the disease. Public health officials are keeping a wary eye and warning that LA could end up being as hard hit as...
Boy's Death No Longer Counted Among LA County's Virus Total
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County health officials said Wednesday that they no longer are including a 17-year-old boy in the tally of coronavirus deaths until they do more to determine his precise cause of death. The county’s public health director, Barbara Ferrer, said she’s asked the federal Centers for...
Los Angeles County Backtracks on Teen's Possible Virus Death
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County health officials backtracked Tuesday on their announcement that a child died from coronavirus, saying it’s possible the death was caused by something else. During their daily briefing, the county health department said the unidentified child from the city of Lancaster was among four new...
Sheriff Says Gun Shops Not Essential, Must Close
Gun shops are not essential businesses and must stop selling to the public, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said on Tuesday. It was a move that enraged Second Amendment advocates who said they planned to challenge it in court. Los Angeles, the nation’s largest county with 10 million residents,...
Los Angeles Aims to Avoid 'Carmageddon' Freeway Closure
BURBANK — It could be “Carmageddon II,” and it's coming to a major Los Angeles freeway on the last weekend of April. The question, as Southern Californians fire up their traffic apps, is whether this latest freeway shutdown — of a section of busy Interstate 5 through Burbank — might...
LA District Attorney Sorry Husband Aimed Gun at Protesters
LOS ANGELES — The husband of the first black woman to lead the country’s largest local prosecutor's office pointed a gun and said “I will shoot you” to Black Lives Matter members demonstrating outside the couple's home before dawn Monday, prompting an apology from his wife on the eve of...
Stolen California Mortuary Vehicle Had Body Inside
LOS ANGELES — Authorities have recovered a stolen mortuary vehicle that had a body inside it Thursday morning following a police pursuit on a major Los Angeles freeway, officials said. The body was found in a casket inside the vehicle and one person was in custody, the Los Angeles County...
Man Drives Jeep Off 6-Story Roof of Los Angeles-Area Garage
SANTA MONICA — A man drove his Jeep off the the sixth floor of a Los Angeles-area parking garage early Sunday and was taken to a hospital in critical condition, authorities said. When officers arrived shortly after midnight, they found the destroyed vehicle up against a McDonald's restaurant across the...