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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.

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.

About 60 volunteers with clipboards spread out over Hollywood on Tuesday morning to count every tent, makeshift shelter, lived-in vehicle and obviously homeless person. Their job was to observe and record, not engage. But in that moment, a conflicting instinct kicked in. Howard, a longtime volunteer outreach worker for the organization Food on Foot, dropped to her knees, took the daughter's hand and listened to their story.

Firefighters responded around 3:20 a.m. to a report of a hazardous material incident near East Cesar Chavez and North Eastern avenues, according to Los Angeles County Fire Captain Aaron Katon.

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.

Authorities believe Cain Clark and Caleb Vazquez are the shooters in Monday morning's attack, which is being investigated as a hate crime. Both suspects, ages 17 and 18, died from apparent self-inflicted gunshot wounds, police said. They were found dead in a vehicle stopped in the middle of a road near the center, said San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl. Three men were killed in the shooting.

The City Council approved postponing the minimum wage increase by 18 months, until after the 2028 Olympics. A business coalition had put a measure on the November ballot that would have eliminated the gross receipts tax, which is the city's second-largest revenue stream. In return for the minimum wage delay, the coalition will withdraw the ballot measure.

Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday, Imam Taha Hassane said Awad's wife is a teacher at the Islamic school and he was a devout member of the community. He is every single day at the Islamic Center, joining the prayers every single day, he said. San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl said the three men's actions likely helped to save 140

Residents in LA reported that Google Maps was displaying satellite images of the Altadena and Pacific Palisades neighborhoods prior to the devastating 2025 wildfires, leading some to believe it was motivated by the upcoming mayoral election.

Officers responded to reports of an active shooter at the Islamic Center of San Diego. According to a report from The Associated Press, a local officer identified as Officer Anthony Carrasco said people reported hearing multiple shots. At the time of writing, the number of victims had not been reporting. MS NOW passed along information reported by local NBC station KNSD revealing that two suspected shooters had been killed.

In a 9-6 vote, the council voted initial approval of an ordinance to postpone implementation of the $30 hourly minimum til 2030, instead of 2028. But L.A. City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson, who introduced the motion, called it "a placeholder" that allows negotiations between city officials, hotel and airport businesses and labor unions to continue in the coming days. Another vote would be needed to formally delay implementation.

On the morning of May 23, 1994, two best friends, Lawrence “Larry” Loehr and Eugene Cates, were brutally killed at a north Stockton construction site. Both were 23 years old, engaged to the women they planned to marry and on the verge of careers in law enforcement. For 32 years, no one was held accountable. Now, authorities say they have solved the case: Donald Lee Clark, 80, a lifelong Stockton resident, has been arrested and charged with murder.

The co-CEO of Waymo posted a video on social media showing one of the company's driverless taxis avoiding a recent crash on a busy freeway in Los Angeles. Dmitri Dolgov shared video of a crash on the 10 Freeway that he says was caused by street racing. Footage shows an out-of-control car crashing into a freeway wall and then coming to a stop in the middle of the road, directly in the path of the approaching Waymo vehicle.

Members of the 77th Street Division gang enforcement unit are being investigated for turning off their body cameras and failing to document some traffic stops. Police officials said Tuesday that the anti-gang unit would be temporarily disbanded while the department reviews the matter. The specialized LAPD detail, said to prioritize seizing illegal firearms, was once described as being among the department's "best" tool against gangs by a police union publication.

Cristo Fernandez has signed for American second-tier side El Paso Locomotive after a two-month trial. The 35-year-old Mexican, who played Dani Rojas in the hit Apple TV+ programme between 2020 and 2023, will now take up a different role for the USL Championship side. Fernandez played youth football in his home city of Guadalajara, but stepped away from the game at the age of 15 because of a knee injury.

Rail workers in Texas found six people dead inside a boxcar at a yard close to the Mexican border on Sunday afternoon, officials said. The discovery was made by a Union Pacific employee inspecting the stopped train at the yard in Laredo before it continued its journey north, a spokesperson for the Laredo police department said, citing the railroad freight company. Authorities are working to establish a cause of death for the six, who were found at about 2.30pm local time on an afternoon when temperatures climbed above 90F (32C). Nobody was found alive in the boxcar, the spokesperson said.