An autumn heat wave accompanied by gusty winds raised the wildfire risk for Southern California, with forecasters warning that grass and brush are still dangerously dry despite recent rains.

The Los Angeles District Attorney's Office says a grand jury indictment was unsealed charging a former Los Angeles police officer in the 2015 shooting death of an unarmed homeless man.

This year’s Nobel Prize science winners got the good news from early morning phone calls and door knocks.

Robin is a therapeutic robot programed to act like a 7-year-old girl as it travels around nursing homes and hospitals’ pediatric units providing emotional support while helping to combat staffing shortages.

More than 60 containers have toppled off a cargo ship in the Port of Long Beach, tumbling overboard and floating in the water.

Delta Air Lines has agreed to pay $79 million to settle a lawsuit filed in 2020 after one of its airplanes experiencing engine trouble dumped fuel over schoolyards and densely populated neighborhoods east of Los Angeles.

Residents in the Western U.S. are enduring a heat wave with temperatures reaching dangerous levels across Washington, Oregon, Southern California, Nevada, and Arizona.

Officials say a man suspected of driving his car into a crowd on a sidewalk in Los Angeles, injuring 36 people, has a criminal history that includes a conviction for felony battery.

A vehicle has rammed into a crowd of people waiting to enter an event venue along a busy boulevard in Los Angeles, injuring 30 people.

Dave’s Hot Chicken said Monday it has been acquired by private equity firm Roark Capital in a deal valued at $1 billion.

Delays in cancer screenings brought on by COVID-19 aren’t making a huge impact on cancer statistics.

Los Angeles County has reached a $4 billion agreement to settle nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse in juvenile facilities since 1959.

Napster, a brand that was notoriously connected to music piracy before reemerging as a subscription music service, has been sold to Infinite Reality for $207 million.

Atmospheric rivers are long and relatively narrow bands of water vapor that form over an ocean and flow through the sky, transporting much of the moisture from the tropics to northern latitudes.

Sony’s PlayStation Network (PSN) is experiencing a major outage across the world, leaving tens of thousands of gamers unable to access online services, stores and multimedia apps.

The Pacific Coast Highway is back open in Malibu, California, nearly a month after the deadly Palisades Fire ripped through hillside Los Angeles neighborhoods, destroying properties all the way down to the beach.

The owner of an oil field in Los Angeles County is suing the state of California over a law that will require it to stop production and plug its wells or face costly fines.

California voters have rejected a measure on the November ballot that would have raised the minimum wage for most workers to $18 an hour.

A law enforcement consulting group says the University of California, Los Angeles should develop clear plans and policies, communication lines and decision-making authority for major protests.

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to victims of clergy sexual abuse dating back decades.

Tennis great Billie Jean King will preside over the 136th Rose Parade as grand marshal next year.

Sony’s PlayStation Network went down, frustrating gamers around the world who complain they weren’t able to sign in to their accounts.

A federal appeals court has revived an antitrust lawsuit the District of Columbia brought against Amazon.

The latest in a series of wet winter storms is blowing ashore in Northern California.

Over 500 mudslides.

Graffiti has risen to high art in downtown Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles Times says it plans to lay off at least 115 employees — more than 20% of the newsroom.

Federal drug officials are warning Georgia to shelve its plans to be the first state to allow pharmacies to dispense medical marijuana.

Federal prosecutors are seeking justice for 34 people killed in a fire aboard a scuba dive boat called the Conception in 2019.

Several NFL players have momentarily traded their cleats for a recording studio microphone.

Excessive heat warnings remain in place in many areas across the U.S. and are expected to last at least through Monday.

A group of migrants who arrived by bus in downtown Los Angeles were sent from Texas.

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Authorities say a single-engine plane has crashed near Big Bear City Airport in the California mountains, killing all three people aboard.

The Netherlands is moving to stop central government employees having apps including popular video sharing service TikTok installed on their work phones, amid concerns over data security.

The last in a three-week series of major winter storms is churning through California.

The sister of a pregnant woman who died along with her young son and three others in a fiery California crash was heading to doctor's appointment for a prenatal checkup.

For two years, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders across the country have endured racist and sometimes deadly attacks fueled by the pandemic.

If California voters recall Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, they could replace him with a 29-year-old YouTube star.

CVS Health Corporation (CVS) on Tuesday, Feb. 16 reported a fourth-quarter net income of $973 million. The company's health insurance business also has started adding claims for COVID-19 treatments. CVS Health earned $973 million in the final quarter of 2020, with results adjusted for one-time gains and costs totaling $1.30 per share. CVS Health operates one of the nation’s largest drugstore chains with nearly 10,000 retail locations. AdShares of CVS Health Corp. slipped 4% to $71.24 while broader markets rose slightly Tuesday.

TOKYO Sony Corp. said Wednesday that its net profit fell 15% in the first half of the year, though strong sales of entertainment and imaging sensors offset weakness in the games sector. Tokyo-based Sony, which makes Bravia digital TVs and the Aibo robotic dog, upgraded its earnings forecast for the full fiscal year on expectations for stronger sales and lower taxes. The company said net profit was 340 billion yen ($3.1 billion), compared with 399 billion yen in the same period a year earlier. It forecast its net profit for the year ending March 31, 2020, will reach 540 billion yen ($5 billion), up 8% from its earlier estimate but well below the 916.3 billion yen it earned in the previous fiscal year. Sony's music unit saw stronger sales from downloads and streaming.