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Firefighters battle a fast-growing fire that broke out Thursday near the Grapevine has impacted I-5 and Highway 138 and prompted an evacuation order and closed a stretch of the 5 Freeway.

Crews make progress against Danny fire in the Grapevine

The fast-growing wildfire has burned more than 150 acres and prompted evacuations near the Grapevine.

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California state workers were teleworking from Idaho, Tennessee and Alabama, audit finds

The SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft is seen as it lands with NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev aboard in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Los Angeles, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026. Meir, Hathaway, Adenot, and Fedyaev are returning after seven-months in space as part of Expedition 74 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 splashes down off L.A. coast after 100-million-mile orbital journey

ADELANTO, CA - JUNE 17: The GEO Adelanto ICE Processing Center in Adelanto, CA on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

Mold, larvae and dehydration: New report paints grim picture inside Adelanto ICE facility

Sailors hugs loved ones after the USS Abraham Lincoln arrived at North Island Naval Air Station in Coronado, CA on Thursday, October 8, 2026. The Lincoln returned to port after a 10-month deployment to the U.S. 3rd, 5th, and 7th Fleet areas of operation.(Photo by (Sandy Huffaker for The LA Times)

Emotion spills over as USS Abraham Lincoln returns home after grueling 321-day deployment

According to authorities, a passenger somehow made it onto the tarmac and stole a tug.

Passenger arrested after breaching gate and stealing vehicle at John Wayne Airport

An investigation is underway after a driver was killed after a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy set off a deadly chain-reaction crash in the City of Commerce while rushing to another emergency overnight. The deputy was responding to a call about an unconscious person in the road in Cudahy when they crashed into a car, killing the civilian driver inside. That driver's car then hit a third vehicle during the chain reaction. The crash happened around 1:30 a.m. on Thursday on S. Atlantic Boulevard at Sheila Street.

One killed after sheriff’s deputy collision sets off chain-reaction crash in Commerce, officials say

Los Angeles, CA, - October 08, 2026: City workers clear encampments in Skid Row on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026 in Los Angeles, CA. Federal law enforcement officials, along with the Los Angeles Police Department, are targeting drug dealing in Downtown Los Angeles with "Operation Save Skid Row." (Eric Thayer / Los Angeles Times)

‘No longer open for business’: Law enforcement crackdown targets Skid Row drug suspects

Fresno contractor who appeared on HGTV dies while hiking in Sequoia National Park

Northern California bus crash that killed 6 was intentional, authorities say

A herd of wild donkeys has the Inland Empire kicking up a fuss

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Steve Hilton says he’s ‘dead against’ off-shore wind

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Steve Hilton on deportations: Start with ‘the worst of the worst’

Steve Hilton on deportations: Start with ‘the worst of the worst’

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Steve Hilton on the Trump policies he opposes

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

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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

GEO Group operates several detention centers for people being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It’s challenging a new California law to give detainees privacy rights.

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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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

US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Pinnacle Bank Expo Center in Grand Island, Nebraska, on October 5, 2026. (Photo by Kent NISHIMURA / AFP via Getty Images)
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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

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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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