A young boy drowned during a World Cup watch party in El Segundo on Friday. He wasidentifiedin a GoFundMe as Taylor Thach, a student at Central Street School. The fundraiser also confirmed he passed away following an accidental drowning. He was known for his kind heart and friendly spirit, the fundraiser reads. Affectionate and polite, he [...]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) An initial agreement between the United States and Iran to extend their shaky ceasefire inched toward a formal signing despite questions Monday over the fate of Tehran's nuclear program and an offensive by Israel in Lebanon that could prolong the fighting and scuttle the deal. The agreement signed electronically [...]

Emergency crews are responding after a B-52 bomber crashed shortly after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base in California on Monday. It wasn't immediately clear if anyone was injured or killed in the crash. The air force base confirmed in a post on social media that the B-52 Stratofortress crashed "shortly after takeoff" on the [...]

County health officials on Monday asked the public for help identifying a woman who has been hospitalized in Los Angeles for nearly two weeks. The unknown patient was found near Main and Winston streets in downtown Los Angeles before being brought to Los Angeles General Medical Center on June 3, according to the Los Angeles [...]

In a scene that could have come out of a cartoon,a stray cat came to the aid of another stray cat and chased a coyote from the backyard of a Los Angeles home. The encounter happened early Sunday morningin Porter Ranch, according to the resident whosent inthe footage to KTLA, Teri Garcia. Garcia explainedthat she [...]

Just ahead of the summer season when many people turn to beaches and water parks to escape the heat, one water park is temporarily shutting down. A well-known water park in the Bay Area, CaliBunga, will be temporarily closed, San Jose officials recently announced. Locals may also know the park as Raging Waters. For more [...]

Detectives have opened a murder investigation into the death of a 19-year-old San Bernardino County woman who was shot multiple times and left to die on a street in broad daylight over the weekend. Victorville deputies responded to the 12000 block of Osprey Lane for an assault with a deadly weapon call around 11:30 a.m. [...]

Tyra Banks has filed a lawsuit against Netflix following the streamer's docuseries "Reality Check: Inside Americas Next Top Model." The supermodel filed a defamation lawsuit in federal court in Los Angeles on Saturday, claiming the documentary about the reality competition series "America's Next Top Model" distorted her image by editing down her interviews ...

Police responding to a call regarding a screaming woman ended up shooting and killing a dog over the weekend, authorities confirmed. The call came out at 8:55 p.m. Saturday in the 7500 block of Jordan Avenue, the Los Angeles Police Department said Monday morning. When officers arrived at the scene, they met with the reporting party, who [...]

King tides are still creating dangerous water conditions along California's coast, and crews hope sand berms and running pumps will help prevent flooding in cities like Long Beach. KTLA's Jennifer McGraw spoke with a man who has lived in the area for 30 years. He said a berm has always been in place to prevent [...]

Want to be part of the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles? LA28 announced plans Monday to open its volunteer application portal next month. As fans fill the seats and athletes take the global stage, behind every event, every venue and every moment is the LA28 Volunteer Crew, LA28 Chief Executive Officer Reynold Hoover said. [...]

A lawsuit has been filed against a pair of Southern California refineries in the wake of the Garden Grove chemical incident last month, as the group behind the suit calls the situations at each site "a potential ticking time bomb." The Torrance Refinery ActionAlliance(TRAA), in a media release, explained that their suit'sfocus lieson the two [...]

Iranian American demonstratorsare set to gather during Mondays FIFA World Cup match betweenIran and New Zealand to protest Iran's inclusion in the tournament. Protesters against the Islamic Republic regime are asking FIFA to ban Iran from the World Cup as well, and it's not the first time either. In fact, there was also a demonstration [...]

NEW YORK (AP) Gene Shalit, a movie critic and arts reporter for the Today show over four decades who was known for his puffy hair, oversized handlebar mustache and affection for groan-inducing puns, has died. He was 100. Shalit's family announced the death Friday to NBC News, saying in a statement that he passed [...]

Investigators are asking the public for help locating an 81-year-old Pasadena woman who has not been heard from in a week. Thelma Leticia Sandoval has been missing since June 9, according to an at-risk missing person alert issued Monday by the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department. Sandoval was last seen near her home in the [...]

A fatal collision apparently involving a pedestrian caused major delays on the 5 Freeway near downtown Los Angeles during Monday mornings commute. The incident was reported around 3:50 a.m. on the southbound side of the freeway just north of Main Street in the Lincoln Heights area, according to the California Highway Patrol. KTLA video showed [...]

A daredevil adventurer known as The Spider-Man of Yemen has died after falling into a volcano crater while attempting to climb vertical rock faces without safety equipment, authorities said.

A 16-year-old who was armed with a knife was fatally shot by Santa Ana police after a domestic dispute left a man with stab wounds and the teens mother injured Sunday night. Police received a call around 10:30 p.m. from a 53-year-old man who said his girlfriends son had a knife and was vandalizing property [...]

Two people were hospitalized Sunday night after a violent two-vehicle crash in Los Angeles Palms neighborhood left one victim trapped inside a mangled vehicle, authorities said. The collision was reported around 8:34 p.m. near the 3000 block of South Tilden Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Firefighters and paramedics responded to the ...

Family, friends and community members gathered Sunday night to hold a vigil for 15-year-old Darnell D.J. Jones, who was shot and killed outside a Cerritos Chick-fil-A Saturday. The shooting happened around 4 p.m. on the 18600 block of Gridley Road, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department. Jones was given emergency medical treatment and [...]

A Bay Area nurse and health influencer known to thousands on social media was fatally shot during an alleged robbery late last month, officials announced. Lartey Solomon, 33, known on TikTok and YouTube as Nurse Solomon, was killed May 31 while walking to his vehicle near Harrison and 14th streets in downtown Oakland. Oakland police [...]

A 3.2-magnitude earthquake shook the southern end of the Salton Sea in Imperial County Sunday night, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake struck 6 miles northwest of Calipatria in Imperial County at 8:26 p.m. The earthquake occurred in an area that experienced more than a dozen earthquakes in a 24-hour period in May. [...]

One woman was killed and another remains in critical condition after being swept off the beach and out to sea during dangerous ocean conditions in Santa Cruz County. The June 10 incident occurred as tropical storms in the Pacific Ocean continue to send massive swells to beaches across California. Crews with the Santa Cruz Fire [...]

Traffic is backed up on the 5 Freeway in Sun Valley due to an explosive big rig fire that started near Lankershim Boulevard at about 5:30 p.m. Sunday. Video of the fire, provided by KTLA viewer Pattee Mack, shows flames burst from the hood of the semi truck as northbound traffic crawled around the fire. [...]

A 21-year-old woman was killed after being launched from an abandoned bridge in Brazil during a bungee jumping excursion that went tragically wrong over the weekend, according to Brazilian authorities and multiple media reports. The June 13 incident happened at the Ponte do Esqueleto, or Skeleton Bridge, in Limeira, a city in So Paulo state, [...]