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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a motion Tuesday to explore the possibility of offering supplemental paid sick leave for people who contract confirmed or suspected monkeypox, and potentially future infectious diseases that require isolation and quarantine.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a motion Tuesday condemning the country of Azerbaijan for the flare-up of military conflict with its neighbor, Armenia.

The number of COVID-19-positive patients in Los Angeles County hospitals was slightly below the 500 mark Tuesday, down sharply from Saturday, while another 12 virus-related deaths were reported.

An athletic trainer who worked at two San Fernando Valley high schools was charged Tuesday with sex-related counts involving 10 teenage girls.e girls, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced Tuesday.

Less than one-third of calls to the Los Angeles Police Department involving people experiencing a mental health crisis are being handled by a co-response team that includes a mental health clinician alongside a sworn officer, Police Chief Michel Moore told the Board of Police Commissioners Tuesday.

Dangerous triple-digit and near-triple-digit temperatures are expected to bake parts of the Southland Wednesday as a mini-heat wave landed full force -- and a forecasted midweek cool-off was pushed back to Thursday.

A judge Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Muslim woman who alleged that a cheese pizza she ordered at a theater at the South Bay Galleria in 2017 had a pepperoni topping, a portion of which she accidentally ate in a dark auditorium in violation of her religion's tenets against eating pork.

A 25-year-old man pleaded guilty and was immediately sentenced to seven years and four months in prison for a fatal crash that killed a Buena Park attorney and critically injured his wife while out on a date night, according to court records obtained Tuesday.

A man suspected of shooting a rifle into the air in Redondo Beach was arrested Tuesday evening.

The Ventura (101) Freeway will close in both directions this weekend to accommodate the demolition of a pedestrian bridge in Encino, Caltrans announced.