Local - Page 2

A Brazilian teenager has died after spending 7 agonizing days suffering in a hospital after injecting himself with butterfly remains.

Farmers Insurance estimated that it would lose roughly $600 million as a result of the Los Angeles area wildfires that occurred in California at the beginning of the year.

Developer Rick Caruso’s non-profit organization, Steadfast L.A., is introducing free prefabricated homes for people to live in on their property in Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Altadena, and Pasadena if they cannot yet afford to rebuild.

The Los Angeles Times published text messages Wednesday between L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and L.A. County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath that suggest Bass is failing to cooperate with other local government leaders.

Dallas-based Southwest Airlines is slashing many of its corporate jobs in a historic move as the company works to reduce costs and make changes.

Firefighters were still working Tuesday at the scene of a huge fire in Pennsylvania that began late Monday.

A Delta Airlines flight crashed at Toronto Pearson Airport as it was landing and flipped upside down, leaving several passengers injured.

A recall for a Quaker Oats pancake mix has been escalated to the “most serious” level after “undeclared milk” was found in some boxes.

Officials are investigating a measles outbreak hitting areas in west Texas, with more than a dozen patients hospitalized, the news coming after health agencies said the childhood disease was eliminated in 2000. 

Flooding in areas across the eastern United States has resulted in the deaths of at least three people. 

Gas prices are soaring in California — again — thanks to a refinery fire that has choked supply, sending average prices to $5 per gallon, and even higher in the northern regions of the state.

Two people were killed and five others hurt during a multi-vehicle pileup in a Wyoming tunnel on Friday.

The man accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December has issued his first public statement.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) claimed that the crew in the U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided with American Airlines Flight 5342 near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport did not hear a message instructing them to “pass behind the” regional jet.

A massive number of LG electric ranges are being recalled due to fire danger issues, several injuries, and some pet deaths.

A kayaker in Chile became a modern-day Jonah on Saturday when a humpback whale decided to approach him.

A clip released by the U.S. Coast Guard appears to have recorded the moment the Titan submersible imploded in June 2023.

A mother who gave birth on a New York City subway has been identified as a Florida woman whose family reported her missing in 2024.

Several grocery store chains such as Aldi, Costco, and Trader Joe’s are limiting how many eggs customers can purchase, citing supply issues amid an outbreak of the avian flu. A spokesperson for Trader Joes confirmed to CNN that due to

Funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have been allocated to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) to house homeless victims of the Palisades Fire — though there are very few.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass declined to answer Tuesday when asked why the city had chosen Hagerty Consulting behind closed doors to manage the recovery from the recent Palisades Fire — or what, precisely, Hagerty would do.

Law enforcement officals in Arcata, California, received multiple reports last week from Tesla owners who found threatening notes left on their vehicles, allegedly by a group calling itself “Students Against Nazi Extremism.” At least one note was found wrapped around a brick, implying the group is preparing for violence.

A collision between a high-speed train and a truck on the outskirts of the German city of Hamburg left one person dead and 25 injured, six of them seriously, police said.

A popular and controversial drug used for weight loss is among others that could potentially have extremely serious side effects.

Two children were found dead in a van in a parking garage of a Detroit casino on Monday and officials suspect the pair froze to death.

Steve Hagerty, the founder of Hagerty Consulting, which Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass chose behind closed doors to lead the city’s rebuilding effort, had a disastrous tenure as mayor of the liberal college town of Evanston, Illinois.

An Alaska Airlines flight attendant took matters into his own fists when a passenger experienced a “violent medical episode” on February 1.

A measles outbreak is affecting school-aged children in Texas and several of those patients have been hospitalized.

Los Angeles “Chief Recovery Officer” Steve Soboroff said Saturday night that he would work for free, after coming under fire for earning $500,000 for three months of work, even though his salary was to have been paid privately.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass awarded the “rebuilding” contract for the recent fires to Hagerty Consulting for an unknown amount of money after a process that was conducted behind closed doors and without any public bids.

A woman is accused of stabbing her boyfriend in the neck when an argument about a wedding venue turned violent in Brookfield, Wisconsin.

A small commuter plane crashed in western Alaska Thursday, killing all 10 people onboard.

A police officer in New Jersey is being hailed as a hero after rescuing an 11-year-old boy by pulling him out of an icy lake on Monday.

A commercial truck driver from Austin, Texas, is facing a sentence of life in prison following his conviction on a charge of murdering a sex-trafficking victim. The woman’s body was found in East Texas after she got in the driver’s truck in Dallas.

Officials found 37 cleverly concealed giant live beetles at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in January.

A 10-year-old boy injured in the plane crash that happened in Northeast Philadelphia on Friday is recovering from a serious injury and talking to his family, his father told ABC 7.