The National Weather Service confirmed Friday afternoon what some people in South Los Angeles already suspected: a small tornado hit the area, tearing up roofs and downing trees and limbs as rain and thunderstorms swept […]

Kevin Costner, Ron Howard and Jessica Chastain will all receive special honors during the 20th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, the Broadcast Film Critics Association announced Friday. Costner, who won a pair of Oscars for […]

Electrical service was interrupted Friday to tens of thousands of customers around Los Angeles County, with weather conditions responsible for many of the problems, authorities said. As of 7 p.m, about 5,135 Los Angeles Department […]

The discovery of a man’s body in an apartment building in Westwood near UCLA is being treated as a suspected suicide, police said today. The man’s body was found after firefighters responded to a structure […]

Two men were hospitalized with knife wounds believed to have been inflicted by the same person early today. The attacks occurred on Hollywood Boulevard at 1:15 a.m., Los Angeles Police Department Sgt. A. Howell said. […]

A man died at the scene when his pickup truck rear ended a big rig and caught fire on the northbound lanes of the San Diego (405) Freeway in Sherman Oaks early today. The collision […]