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An Inglewood man who fatally stabbed a woman he had briefly dated and killed her dog before setting fire to her Pomona apartment was sentenced Tuesday to more than 66 years to life in state prison.

A Panorama City man has been charged with murder and other counts for allegedly fatally shooting a man who had been hired to paint over gang graffiti on the wall of a Northridge business.

Trade at the Port of Long Beach declined 30% in March from the same period last year, port officials announced Wednesday, attributing the decline in part to full warehouses, slower spending and changing trade routes.

It's a title nobody wants, but the Los Angeles- Long Beach metropolitan area was again named the most ozone-polluted region in the nation in an annual air-quality report released Wednesday by the American Lung Association, as Western states continued to outpace the East in terms of poor air.

Renters and other advocates rallied Wednesday outside Los Angeles City Hall, filling the south lawn, to demand the City Council create "social housing" as part of a slate of solutions to address the city's affordability and homelessness crisis.

Arraignment was delayed Tuesday for a Mission Viejo dermatologist accused of poisoning her husband, also a physician, by putting Drano in his tea.

A 42-year-old woman who helped her drug-trafficking friend kill a marijuana dealer who owed him money by taking the victim on her fishing boat off Dana Point Harbor to be beaten, shot and drowned was sentenced to 21 years and 10 months in federal prison, prosecutors said Tuesday.

The Los Angeles Unified School District and the union representing its teachers announced Tuesday they have reached a tentative labor agreement that includes a 21% salary increase and reductions in class sizes.

Authorities sought the public's help Tuesday to find a hit-and-run motorist responsible for badly injuring a pedestrian in Wilmington more than six months ago.

Repairs to winter storm damage along Gabriel Canyon Road in the Angeles National Forest were in progress Tuesday and will continue through summer, authorities said.