An Orange County police department targeted motorcycles and cars with loud, modified exhaust systems, speeding drivers and e-bike/e-motorcycle violators during a one-day, multi-agency operation Saturday. During the operation, officers stopped 105 vehicles, resulting in 102 violations that were either cited or assigned warnings, the Laguna Beach Police ...

NEW YORK (AP) Bob Mackie, the fashion designer whose visually provocative Hollywood style defined glamour for the 1970s including putting Carol Burnett in some of her kookiest getups and Cher in her raciest ones died Monday. He was 87. He lived his 87 years to the fullest, fulfilling his dream of being [...]

A resident of a San Bernardino County mountain community says bears broke into his home overnight. The incident occurred at 2 a.m. Sunday in Green Valley Lake, a small community northeast of Running Springs in the San Bernardino Mountains. The resident, Thomas Vander Wende, said that the bears tore apart his guinea pig enclosure, [...]

A two-week operation to combat smash-and-grab robberies in San Bernardino County resulted in six arrests and the recovery of hundreds of dollars' worth of merchandise, authorities announced Monday. The multi-agency task force conducted the retail theft operation in the Rancho Cucamonga shopping corridor area between Aug. 29 and Sept. 11, the San Bernardino ...

L.A. City firefighters are investigating the cause of a fire that broke out overnight at a Target store in Silver Lake. The fire started around 1 a.m. Monday on Dillon Street near Silver Lake Boulevard. Firefighters were able to extinguish it within 35 minutes of the 911 call, L.A. Fire said. The fire was kept [...]

Rapper Macklemore has been dropped from the remainder of Ed Sheerans U.S. Loop Tour after making headlines for saying Free Palestine and other statements on stage in support of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. As the concert promoter for Ed Sheerans U.S. Loop Tour, we have been notified by venues on the upcoming [...]

Nearly 1,000 vehicles, including e-bikes and e-motorcycles, were surrendered at a buyback event in Orange County on Sunday. A spokesperson with the Orange County District Attorneys Office told KTLA on Monday morning that officials were still counting, but she believed the number of e-bikes surrendered was close to 1,000. We had nine full truckloads of ...

A major disruption to the nations oil supply is sending fuel prices skyrocketing and may end up costing consumers even more at the grocery store. Saudi Arabia shut down a major pipeline that was struck in a drone attack it blamed on Iranian-backed militias in Iraq, according to two regional officials. Repairing the damage was [...]

An entire local high school football team has been suspended from play for a week due to unsportsmanlike conduct. The suspension means Victor Valley High School will also be forced to forfeit their next game. A joint statement issued by Victor Valley High School Superintendent Carl J. Coles and Principal Darius Robinson says that [...]

The Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department has released more information surrounding a house fire and subsequent officer-involved shooting in El Monte that occurred Sunday evening, an incident one local resident called "shocking." The fire was reported at 6:57 p.m., L.A. County Fire Department Capt. Aaron Katon told KTLA on Sunday night. Firefighters ...

Hayden Panettieres possible cause of death has been revealed, according to reports. TMZ, who first reported the news and cited sources connected to the case and with direct knowledge, Panettiere died after taking oxycodone laced with fentanyl. She was 36 years old when she died on Aug. 16 in Greenville, South Carolina. The findings [...]

Police in the Inland Empire are asking the public for help locating a woman with autism who disappeared over the weekend and requires medication. Twenty-eight-year-old Kristen Preston was last seen in the area of 14th Street and Magnolia Avenue in Riverside at about 4:20 p.m. Sunday, according to the Riverside Police Department. Preston has been [...]

LOS ANGELES (AP) New warnings from within the artificial intelligence industry have revived a long-running debate over whether advanced AI could escape human control and ultimately threaten humanitys survival, and whether the companies developing the technology are doing enough to prevent such a scenario. The CEO of Anthropic, the San Francisco company ...

Police are canvassing the Universal City Overlook area after a shooting victim was found in the Hollywood Hills West neighborhood late Sunday night. Officers responded to the 2900 block of La Castana Drive around 11:45 p.m. Sunday after receiving a report of a shooting victim at the location, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson confirmed [...]

Celine Dion had not played a full concert since March 8, 2020.

MIAMI (AP) Amazon said Sunday that it has suspended its partnership with 21 Air after one of the cargo carrier's planes loaded with Amazon packages careened off a Miami runway last week and killed five people. The Boeing 767 came in fast on Sept. 6 and then barreled roughly 1,300 feet (396 meters) past [...]

A man was hospitalized after being shot by police in an incident that began as a house fire on a residential street in El Monte on Sunday night. Officers with the El Monte Police Department responded to 5121 Elrovia Ave. just before 7 p.m. on reports of an armed gunman at the scene. At the [...]

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer won't fight the NBA's salary cap circumvention punishment in a reversal of the team's initial defiance and vow to fight against what it called a heavily biased investigation. In his first public comments since the NBA announced a sweeping punishment against the Clippers this month, [...]

One of two victims killed in a fiery crash early Sunday morning has been identified by family and friends as a well-known Orange County car influencer. James Wehr, 27, co-founder of South OC Cars & Coffee, billed on its website as the worlds largest weekly car show, was one of two people inside a 2019 [...]

A water main break shut down Las Virgenes Road from Mulholland Highway to Lost Hills Road in the Calabasas area Sunday evening, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Office. Video of the area showed traffic backing up as a line of cars attempted to navigate around the geyser of water gushing up from the [...]

Seven people, including a firefighter, were rushed to a hospital after a violent multi-vehicle crash involving a Los Angeles Fire Department ladder truck that was responding to an emergency Sunday. The incident, according to an LAFD news release, occurred around 2:30 p.m. outside El Diamante Sports Bar at 11928 Figueroa St., near 120th Street, in [...]

A man in his 40s is dead after he was hit by a truck and an SUV while crossing the street in the North Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles Sunday morning, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The man was crossing Sepulveda Boulevard at about 5 a.m. when he was hit by the black [...]

Traffic on Los Angeles' 6th Street was temporarily closed after dozens of minibike riders were surrounded by police as part of an operation to curb illegal street takeovers in the city, KTLA has confirmed. LAPD Deputy Chief German Hurtado, commanding officer of the department's Central Bureau, told KTLA photojournalist Phil Ige that officers had been [...]

The CEO of one of the worlds leading artificial intelligence companies is calling for the industry to slow the development of increasingly powerful AI, warning that the technology could soon advance faster than humans can understand or control it. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei issued the warning Saturday in an essay titled We Must Pace the [...]

Students and families in Orange County came together this weekend to honor the life of a 22-year-old local woman killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, continuing a tradition aimed at ensuring her story lives on with a generation born years after her death. The second annual Lisa Frost Memorial Heroes Walk was held in [...]