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An inmate serving a six-year sentence for second-degree robbery, who walked away from a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reentry program facility two weeks ago, was back in custody today.

Before the coronavirus pandemic, 44% of U.S. households did not pay federal income tax.

The final defendant in the Newport Beach kidnapping and torture of a marijuana dispensary owner, who was sexually mutilated in the Mojave Desert, pleaded guilty today to a misdemeanor and was spared any more jail time.

A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was unveiled today honoring actor Morris Chestnut, best known for his roles in such films as ``Boyz n the Hood,'' ``The Brothers,'' ``The Perfect Holiday,'' ``Think Like a Man,'' ``The Best Man'' and its sequel, ``The Best Man Holiday.''

A report published today by the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy found that only 17 people are in long- term housing out of the 183 unhoused people who were removed from Echo Park Lake last March and put on a list for placements.

The number of COVID-19-positive patients in Los Angeles County hospitals fell below 400 today, reaching a level not seen since early last July, while the public health director called for continued federal funding for virus testing, vaccinations and other treatments.

LA Metro and Fire Department officials today are investigating how a worker who was struck by a construction train at the future site of the Wilshire/La Brea Station on Metro's Purple Line Extension Project died.

Downtown's Union Station and the columns of LAX will be lit up in red tomorrow for World Tuberculosis Day -- and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is using the occasion to encourage residents to get tested for the potentially deadly disease.

The city of Santa Monica has finalized a settlement with a 31-year-old man who survived being struck in the head by a gunshot fired by a former Santa Monica Police Department officer, it was announced today.

A 62-year-old bicyclist was killed today in El Monte and police were searching for the hit-and-run driver.