“It is with profound sadness, deep love, and immense gratitude that we share the passing of our husband and father Dr. William A. 'Bill' Burke, who passed away peacefully on May 29, 2026 at the age of 87, surrounded by his beloved family,” his relatives said in a statement, according to the L.A. Sentinel.
Zoe Justman, the fourth sister to play in the City Section, will try to help Granada Hills High win the Open Division championship on Friday against Carson at 6:30 p.m. at Legacy High in South Gate. The two teams will be playing in their fourth straight final.
Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies evacuated a resident in west Altadena just after 11:30 p.m., the night the Eaton fire broke out, according to logs of 911 calls obtained by The Times, raising new questions about why it took nearly four more hours for authorities to issue widespread alerts for the rest of the community.
Some 50,000 residents of the area were forcibly evacuated after a chemical tank at the GKN Aerospace manufacturing facility became compromised, with its temperature and pressure rising to dangerous levels. For days, officials and emergency response teams monitored the site, attempting to either cool the tank or safely release the pressure, which apparently occurred when the tank of highly toxic methyl methacrylate (MMA) ultimately cracked, alleviating the threat of a catastrophic, flaming explosion that could have engulfed nearby homes in burning chemical residue.
Prosecutors claim Angel Guzman helped butcher a man while deep inside the Angeles National Forest in 2017 - stabbing him more than 100 times, carving out his heart with a machete, and dumping his body into a canyon, the LA Times reported. Now, Guzman and three other alleged members of the notorious MS-13 Fulton gang are facing federal charges tied to a bloody string of murders that cops say turned the LA County mountains into execution grounds.
A 40-year-old Los Angeles man was charged with murder after allegedly killing his girlfriend and kidnapping their young child before fleeing to Mexico, according to authorities. Ruben Fregosojuarez has been charged one count of murder and one misdemeanor count of child abuse under circumstance or conditions other than great bodily injury or death, according to a Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office news release.
He was one of more than 50,000 Orange County residents ordered to evacuate on Friday as authorities tried to cool down a rapidly heating tank holding a highly toxic chemical. Torres bounced around three locations over the next four days with his father, girlfriend, three parakeets, a dog and a turtle named Squirt while fielding calls from irate and scared residents.
Fresh off a flight from his home in Paris, the incoming conductor was treated to In-N-Out Burger, a performance by a jazz quartet at the Beckmen YOLA Center, a tour of the Hollywood Bowl, and a Dodgers game with outgoing music director Gustavo Dudamel.
Luna worked for the Long Beach Police Department for 36 years, including a seven-year stint as its first Latino chief, before winning election to helm the nation's largest sheriff's department in 2022.
Two adults and two minors were found fatally shot inside a home in North Hills on Wednesday night, authorities said. The Los Angeles Police Department responded to a shooting at 7:50 p.m in the 16000 block of Londelius Street, according to a department spokesperson. Four people were found dead inside, and homicide detectives are investigating the incident.
Court filings in a custody dispute identified Brian Palacios as the off-duty ICE agent responsible for the fatal shooting of Keith Porter Jr. on New Year's Eve. According to a restraining order application filed by the ex-husband of Palacios' girlfriend, the agent said in a phone call that ICE was pursuing a criminal investigation over his name being made public. Palacios' attorney has said her client shot Porter in self-defense. Porter's family has maintained he posed no threat.
A few days later, the attack on LA Metro was claimed by Ababil of Minab, which purports to be a pro-Iran hacktivist group. The threat actor allegedly wiped hundreds of terabytes of data and exfiltrated more than 1TB worth of files. The hackers published screenshots and videos to demonstrate that they had access to LA Metro's internal systems, including a core virtualization management platform, a Microsoft IIS web server instance hosting internal and public-facing assets, and even an operational technology (OT) system used to monitor trains.
During investigatory inspections of LaGuardia's airfield pavement Thursday using ground-penetrating radar, possible areas of concern were identified and proactively repaired. Out of an abundance of caution, engineering crews have decided to conduct additional inspections that necessitate the continued closure of Runway 4/22.
Officials with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which controls the airport, had been conducting routine inspections Wednesday when they discovered the sinkhole about 11 a.m. near Runway 4/22, according to a statement from the agency emailed to Newsday. The runway was shut down and emergency construction and engineering crews responded to start repairs. That same runway was shuttered for several days after the fatal March 22 collision between an Air Canada Express jet and a fire truck.
Producers, who had built a new lifeguard station on Venice Beach in preparation for what they anticipated to be a multi-season reboot, learned they were not allowed to use the camera drones they were counting on, or to shoot at night. They had a $21m tax credit from the state and what they thought was the full blessing of the local authorities. But a handful of regulatory agencies, notably the county beaches and harbors department, had other ideas, and within four days shooting ground to a halt under a barrage of unexpected restrictions involving everything from the sand they could shoot on to the parking arrangements.
More than 2,000 people have gathered in a park in San Diego, California, to mourn a security guard and two other men murdered as they tried to stop this week's attack on the city's largest mosque. Mourners, including police officers in uniform, stood in rows for the Islamic funeral prayer, or Janazah, on Thursday. The bodies of the three men 51-year-old Amin Abdullah, 78-year-old Mansour Kaziha and 57-year-old Nadir Awad lay beneath cloth, underneath a white canopy.
Federal agents have raided the homes of three southern California immigration activists in what the activists allege is the latest escalation in a Trump administration campaign to harass a volunteer-led advocacy group that organizes neighborhood ICE-watch patrols. Agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the main investigatory branch of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), executed a pre-dawn raid on 13 May at the home and business of Leonardo Martinez, whose group VC Defensa runs a rapid response hotline and supports immigrant families across Ventura county. The homes of two other current and former VC Defensa volunteers were also targeted. No arrests were made.
