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Teenager Kills Own Brother In Deadly Compton Backyard Argument? Family Detains Suspect For Deputies

LASD arm patch on uniformA teenager accused of killing his own brother in a deadly Compton backyard argument was in custody Tuesday. The adult brother was shot and killed and family members detained the suspect until law enforcement officers arrived. The shooting was reported about 5:45 p.m. Sunday in the 700 block of Corlett Avenue, according to Deputy Tracy […]
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South LA Man Linked to Massive Fireworks Blast Due in Federal Court

A South Los Angeles man is expected to face a judge Tuesday on a federal charge of illegally transporting tons of explosives — including dangerous homemade devices that were detonated by police, leading to a massive explosion that destroyed a specially designed containment vehicle and injured 17 people. Arturo Ceja III was arrested Saturday by […]
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Death Car Overturns As Venice Driver Murdered By Gunfire From Nearby Vehicle

Los Angeles Police cruiserPolice Tuesday hunted the gunman who drove by a couple’s car in Venice and opened fire, killing the man and seriously wounding the woman as the victims’ car crashed and overturned. Authorities provided no explanation for the attack, nor did they say if they had any information about the killer’s identity. The shooting was reported […]
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One Person Killed in Wrong-Way Crash on 91 Freeway in Anaheim

One person was killed and two others injured Tuesday morning when a motorist driving a pickup truck the wrong way on the eastbound Riverside (91) Freeway in Anaheim struck a black sedan. The crash was reported at 1:16 a.m. on the eastbound Riverside Freeway just west of Harbor Boulevard. Witnesses told the California Highway Patrol […]
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Passenger Killed in Exposition Park Crash

One person was killed in a solo-vehicle crash in the Exposition Park area of Los Angeles, police said. The crash occurred at 10:42 p.m. Monday at Vermont Avenue and Exposition Boulevard, according to Officer Lizeth Lomeli of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Media Relations Section. A vehicle was northbound on Vermont Avenue when it collided […]
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Amber Alert Issued After Homicide Suspect Abducts Son in Lake Elsinore

Law enforcement agencies around Southern California continued to search Tuesday for a Lake Elsinore homicide suspect who allegedly abducted his 2-year-old son. An Amber Alert was issued Monday in connection with the abduction of Celestine Stoot III in Lake Elsinore, by his father, Celestine Stoot Jr. The child was last seen in Lake Elsinore on […]
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Los Angeles County Reports 436 New Cases of COVID-19

Los Angeles County is reporting 436 new cases of COVID-19 and two additional deaths, though health officials said the numbers likely reflect reporting delays over the holiday weekend. Hospitalizations in the county due to COVID-19 dropped from 284 to 273, with the number of COVID patients in ICU units declining from 77 to 65, according […]
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Orange County to Update COVID-19 Numbers Tuesday

Orange County officials plan to update their coronavirus numbers Tuesday after saying last week that they reached their goal of at least partially vaccinating 70% of the county’s adult population by Independence Day. In the most recent update on Friday, the Orange County Health Care Agency reported 74 new cases of COVID-19 and one additional […]
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Night Closures Planned on Ortega Highway Between Elsinore and OC This Week

Beginning this week, full closures are planned nightly along segments of the Ortega (74) Highway between Lake Elsinore and the Orange County line, and motorists are advised to plan on taking alternate routes. “There will be a lot of excavation and a large ditch in the highway, so it cannot be used as a thru […]
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Pedestrian Struck and Killed While Running Across Harbor Freeway

CHP officers at crash sceneA pedestrian was struck and killed Monday evening while running across the southbound Harbor Freeway in South Los Angeles. The crash was reported at 10:06 p.m. at the Glenn Anderson (105) Freeway, according to the California Highway Patrol. A male who claimed to have struck the pedestrian with a white Mercedes-Benz told the CHP the […]
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