SAG-AFTRA Board Votes Strike; Pickets Start Friday

The SAG-AFTRA actors strike will officially get underway at midnight Thursday evening, with the union announcing Thursday that its National Board has voted unanimously to issue a strike order to have members walk off the job. SAG-AFTRA members are expected to be on the picket lines outside studios Friday morning, joining the Writers Guild of […]

Orange County Man Who Stalked Online Gamer Gets Two Years in Prison

A former Marine from Orange County was sentenced Thursday to two years behind bars for using hundreds of Twitter accounts to torment a professional online gamer he fixated on during a long-running harassment campaign. Evan Baltierra, 30, of Trabuco Canyon, was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release after he gets out of […]

Man Fatally Shot in Vermont Vista Area Identified

A 50-year-old man was killed Thursday in the Vermont Vista neighborhood of South Los Angeles. Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Southeast Division were called at 12:15 a.m. to West Imperial Highway and Figueroa Street in front of the Signal Motel, where they found the victim with multiple gunshot wounds, an LAPD spokesman told […]

LA City Councilman Curren Price’s Arraignment Delayed on Criminal Charges

Los Angeles City Councilman Curren Price made his first court appearance Thursday on criminal charges of theft by embezzlement, perjury and conflict of interest for allegedly voting on projects involving developers tied to his wife’s consulting firm, then failing to report the connections. Price is now set to be arraigned Aug. 28 at the downtown […]

Fire Crews Knock Down House Fire in South Los Angeles

Fire crews put out a brush fire that spread to a single-family home in South Los Angeles Thursday, but no injuries were reported. The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to the 400 block of East 31st Street at around 2 p.m. to a report of a vegetation fire in a vacant lot. The blaze extended […]

Third Bus of Migrants from Texas Arrive at Union Station

About two weeks after a second bus of migrants from Texas arrived in the city, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ office confirmed a third bus dropped off more migrants Thursday at Union Station. “One bus from Texas arrived around 12:40 p.m. today,” Zach Seidl, spokesman for Bass, said in a statement. “The city has continued […]

Boxer Devin Haney Arrested in Hollywood

Boxer Devin Haney was arrested early Thursday in Hollywood for allegedly possessing a concealed firearm in the vehicle he was driving, authorities said. Haney, 24, was taken into custody about 12:30 a.m. after officers stopped the vehicle for an unsafe lane change at Hollywood Boulevard and El Centro Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Police […]

LA City Councilman Kevin De Leon Unveils First Free ADU Standard Plan

Los Angeles City Councilman Kevin de Leon Thursday announced the city’s first-ever, pre-approved, free Accessory Dwelling Unit Standard Plan, aimed at expanding housing opportunities. De Leon leveraged discretionary funds to spearhead the development of the free ADU Standard Plan, which is intended to cut red tape to constructing ADUs and streamlines the approval process by […]

Echo Park to Host 42nd Lotus Festival

The city of Los Angeles Thursday invited Angelenos to come and celebrate the 42nd Lotus Festival this weekend, which will honor and showcase the people and culture of Indonesia. The festival will run July 15 -16 from noon to 8 p.m. at Echo Park. This annual event began in 1972, becoming one of the city’s […]

LA County COVID-19 Transmission Rates Remain Stable

Los Angeles County’s health department Thursday reported 1,544 new COVID-19 cases, a decrease from the 1,741 cases reported last week as COVID-19 hospitalizations fell to a record low. Thursday’s update showed for the third consecutive week that wastewater concentrations of SARS CoV-2, the virus that results in a COVID-19 infection, are at 8% of the […]

Fire Damages Hollywood Apartment Building; Woman Hospitalized

A fire damaged an apartment building in Hollywood Thursday and left a woman hospitalized. Firefighters sent to the 7300 block of West Hawthorn Avenue at 11:34 a.m. extinguished the flames in the two-story building in 18 minutes, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. A woman was taken to a hospital for treatment of “moderate […]