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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - MAY 18: Actor Keegan Allen attends the MOCA Benefit 2019 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA on May 18, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by JC Olivera/Getty Images)

‘Pretty Little Liars’ actor Keegan Allen says he was victim of armed robbery in bloody video

Keegan Allen posted a video of himself covered in blood in West Hollywood on Thursday night, saying he had just been the victim of an armed robbery.

LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 1, 2026 - Enrique Salgado installs the first Automated Speed Safety System camera on a lamp post in front of 5176 Santa Monica Blvd. In Los Angeles on October 1, 2026. The camera was installed at the location known for several accidents at the site. LADOT held a press conference to announce the start of construction of the new speed safety cameras. Approximately 300 people are killed each year in traffic crashes in Los Angeles, with vehicle speed a leading factor in the severity of collisions. Under AB 645, Los Angeles is authorized to install automated speed cameras at 125 locations citywide. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)

Can technology curb our love of speeding? The stunning results of a test in Malibu

A magnitude 3.2 earthquake was reported Friday morning before 1 a.m. in Long Beach, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Magnitude 3.2 earthquake rattles Long Beach after midnight

Law enforcement investigate a car accident were one person died, and two others were injured when two vehicles collided head-on in Malibu Thursday evening on a stretch of Pacific Coast Highway that is notorious for deadly crashes. The collision occurred around 10:15 p.m. near Carbon Canyon Road. According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, the driver of a 2019 white Mercedes Benz sedan was traveling eastbound when they crossed the center median and collided with a 2020 Cadillac SUV traveling westbound.
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Speed camera shocker: 100,000 violators seen in nine days on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu

LOS ANGELES, CA - September 18, 2026: Los Angeles Police Department graduates, a total of 22 recruits including four officers from the United Arab Emirates Police as part of a trainee exchange program, stand for a uniform inspection at the Los Angeles Police Academy in Elysian Park on Friday, September 18, 2026. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

Police lawsuits have cost L.A. nearly half a billion dollars since 2019, new data show

Pomona, CA, Tuesday, November 18, 2025 - Two members of Pomona 12th Street, the oldest and largest of Pomona's gangs, are accused of extorting a business owner in the city. The gang members allegedly collected $800 to $1,000 a month from the business owner, whom they'd threatened to kill. An image of P12 graffiti located along the railroad tracks near downtown. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

Mexican Mafia suspects charged with shaking down L.A. County business, ordering shooting

California gubernatorial candidates Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton, during CNN's California Gubernatorial Debate on Wednesday, September 30, 2026, in CNN's studio in Burbank, California. Democrat Xavier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton are the final two contenders in the race for California Governor. The debate was moderated by CNN anchors Jake Tapper and Dana Bash.
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Chabria: Hilton’s ‘immigrant’ attack on Becerra is despicable. But here’s where we agree

LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 12, 2022: Genaro Leal joins community members in calling for the resignation of Nury Martinez, Kevin de Leon and Gil Cedillo at City Hall Council chambers in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday, October 12, 2022. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)
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Arellano: We live in a world the L.A. City Hall audio leak scandal wrought. Thank God

SoCal business owner hid cameras in bathroom — and his shoe — for secret recordings, police allege

‘Circling like sharks’: Companies are buying up L.A. County’s $4-billion sex abuse settlement

Tropical Storm Rachel: When will it hit SoCal? How bad will it be?

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LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 18, 2026 - - Los Angeles mayoral candidate and city council member Nithya Raman, center, enjoys a light moment with The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) Action members at a "Latinos Con Raman" rally at La Cita Bar in downtown Los Angeles on September 18, 2026. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)
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Latino voters have shifted away from Karen Bass in L.A. mayor’s race, according to new poll

Raman leads Bass among Latinos, 45% to 21%, with 34% undecided, the latest Berkeley IGS/L.A. Times poll shows. But in the primary, Bass carried 35 Latino majority neighborhoods compared with seven for Raman.

Newberry Springs, CA, - August 23, 2026: The exterior of the Bagdad Cafe is seen on Route 66 on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026 in Newberry Springs, CA. The owner, Andrea Pruett, died in her 80s in January. The business, which is popular with tourists who are fans of the movie with the same name, has been struggling since the pandemic. (Eric Thayer / Los Angeles Times)
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A cult film made this lonely desert cafe famous. Now, it’s fighting to survive

LOS ANGELES, CA - September 06, 2026: Participants in the Barrio Athletics 5K Run pose for a group photo at Elysian Park on Sunday, Sept. 6, 2026 in Los Angeles, CA. (Caroline Brehman / For The Times)
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Arellano: A failed run club ‘takeover’ of Leimert Park shows what’s at stake for Black L.A.

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The online predator next door: Feds hunt down L.A. members of child sex abuse network

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She got a restraining order against her ex — and still ended up dead. Here’s how the system failed her

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California gubernatorial candidates Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton, during CNN's California Gubernatorial Debate on Wednesday, September 30, 2026, in CNN's studio in Burbank, California. Democrat Xavier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton are the final two contenders in the race for California Governor. The debate was moderated by CNN anchors Jake Tapper and Dana Bash.

Medicaid reckoning awaits next California governor after program’s rapid expansion

Medicaid Reckoning Awaits Next California Governor After Program’s Rapid Expansion

ADELANTO, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 13: Robby Kumar, right, of Clairevista, along with a caravan group from Boyle Heights, protest with Centro Community Service Orananization in the legalization for all weekend of action against the Adelanto ICE Processing Center Los Angeles Field Office on Saturday, June 13, 2026 in Adelanto, California. Adelanto is one of the largest immigration detention facilities in the United States and serves as a major detention hub for the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Operated by The GEO Group under direct contract with ICE. (Gary Coronado / For The Times)

Private prison company sues California over civil rights law for immigrant detainees

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MAY 28: California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra (L) takes a selfie with a supporter during a Get Out The Vote rally at Micky's WeHo on May 28, 2026 in West Hollywood, California. With less than a week to go before the California primary, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra continues to campaign across the state. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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Arellano: What Steve Hilton doesn’t get about Xavier Becerra’s parents

El Segundo , CA - October 06: Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton sits down with LA Times and LA-ist journalists during a Town Hall at the Los Angeles Times Building on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026 in El Segundo , CA. (Ronaldo Bolanos / Los Angeles Times)

Hilton warm on tax cuts, tepid on Trump, cold on offshore wind during gubernatorial town hall

GARDEN GROVE, Calif., Aug. 14, 2026: A pedestrian waits to cross the street as a Flock Safety camera is mounted high on traffic signal pole at the intersection of Chapman Avenue & Harbor Boulevard in Garden Grove on Friday, Aug. 14, 2026. The cameras are automated license plate reader (ALPR) and vehicle surveillance systems used by law enforcement agencies, homeowners associations, and private businesses countrywide. The cameras capture objective vehicle details-such as license plates, make, model, color, and time stamps-rather than personal faces. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

LAPD’s license plate reader pilot program put on hold by City Council

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Los Angeles, CA., November 5, 1942: Peggy Satterlee, left, actor Errol Flynn, center, with his attorney Robert E. Ford, right, at a preliminary hearing in a crowded Los Angeles courtroom on Nov. 5, 1942. 16-year-old Peggy Satterlee, charged that Flynn raped her on two consecutive nights on his yacht. (George R. Watson / Los Angeles Times)
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Errol Flynn had a penchant for underage girls. His trial barely tarnished him

Comedian Lenny Bruce poses for a photograph
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Incendiary comic Lenny Bruce inspired generations. During his brief life, L.A vice cops hounded him

20030209 (LA/B5,SF/B5) –– DEVASTATION: The St. Francis Dam after it collapsed and sent a 10–story wall of water through San Francisquito Canyon. 20030209 (VN/B3) –– AFTER: The dam after it collapsed in 1928, sending a 10–foot wall of water roaring through San Francisquito Canyon. 00–10–14(Valley) –– (2 Photos) The St. Francis Dam, above left, was completed in 1926 and held water brought south in the L.A. Aqueduct. Above right, the dam shortly after it collapsed in 1928, killing more than 450 people. 98–03–08 (Ventura) –– Little was left after the St. Francis Damcollapsed, sendingbillions of gallons of water down San Francisquito Canyon. FILE PHOTO This is all that was left of the St. Francis dam in San Francisquito canyon after it collapsed in 1928.
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William Mulholland brought water to L.A. He failed to stop a disastrous flood

FILE - Escorted by sheriff's deputies, Robert Blake is surrounded by a crowd of photographers and reporters as he gets into his attorney's car after his release from jail to await his murder trial, in downtown Los Angeles, March 14, 2003. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
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He played an iconic cop on TV. Did Robert Blake get away with murder?

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Were the Zodiac killer and the Black Dahlia the same person? The devil is in the details

LA's most famous unsolved killing, The Black Dahlia killing
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An amateur codebreaker may have just solved the Black Dahlia and Zodiac killings

Iva Toguri D'Aquino, Tokyo Rose of the Japanese propaganda "Zero Hour" broadcasts which were beamed to American troops in the Pacific during the war, seems in a pensive mood as she looks through the bars of her cell in Yokohama, Japan, Oct. 28, 1945. Born in Los Angeles, 29 years ago to Japanese parents, she is awaiting trial for treason against the United States. (AP Photo)

This L.A. woman was jailed as a WWII traitor. How a pair of perjuries ensnared ‘Tokyo Rose’

Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson starts a Bible-reading marathon at Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, June 28, 1931. The contest will continue through July 1, with what is said to be the largest Bible in the world being used by contestants. (AP Photo)
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Toting a tambourine, she built L.A.’s first megachurch. Then she suddenly disappeared

MONTEREY PARK-CA-DECEMBER 9, 2013: Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca faces the media during a news conference in response to an announcement of the F.B.I. arrests of 17 sworn members of the Sheriff's Department in connetion with a federal probe into activities at county jails at the Department Headquarters in Monterey Park on Monday, December 9, 2013. (Christina House / For The Times)

A popular L.A. sheriff touted reforms in a troubled system. Then a young FBI agent showed up

Marvin Gaye, American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, and musician photographed in Los Angeles.

Inside the tragedy that silenced a soul legend: Marvin Gaye’s last fight with his father

FILE - In this June 5, 1968, file photo, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy addresses campaign workers moments before being shot in Los Angeles. At his side are his wife, Ethel, and his California campaign manager, Jesse Unruh, speaker of the California Assembly. Prosecutors for the first time are not opposing the release of Sirhan Sirhan. The 77-year-old prisoner on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, faces his 16th parole hearing for fatally shooting Kennedy in 1968. (AP Photo/Dick Strobel, File)
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The assassination of RFK: An icon of hope, a hotel pantry and an ‘angry nobody’

Los Angeles, California, July 13, 1981 - HILLSIDE STRANGLER - Angelo Buono, "Hillside Strangler" suspect, smiles as he listens to motion by the deputy district attorney to dismiss murder charges against him. With him is one of his attorneys, Kathy Mader. Photo Credit: R.L. Oliver / Los Angeles Times

Homicidal cousins and the Hillside Stranglers case: A trial that nearly did not happen

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