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A single-engine aircraft crashed Thursday just south of the Santa Monica Pier.

A search warrant served at a Granada Hills home revealed an underground bunker, approximately 12 feet deep, that housed a drug lab, authorities said Thursday.

Dodger pitcher Trevor Bauer, who was previously suspended for two full seasons over violations of Major League Baseball's sex assault and domestic violence policies, was reinstated Thursday by an arbitrator who reduced his suspension to 194 games.

Thanks to falling infection numbers, Los Angeles County Thursday moved out of the federal government's "high" COVID-19 activity category and into the "medium" level, but the county's health director warned that transmission remains elevated and urged people to exercise caution over the holidays.

While officials announced Thursday Orange County has moved into the "high" level of COVID-19 transmission, an epidemiologist said there are signs COVID-19 hospitalizations may have leveled off.

The estate and brother of a 32-year-old woman who allegedly died at the hands of another inmate at the Los Angeles County women's jail in Lynwood in late 2021 have added a new claim to a lawsuit against the county that already had alleged wrongful death, negligence and civil rights violations.

As antisemitism rises in Los Angeles and elsewhere, The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles Thursday launched a citywide billboard campaign to counter the spread of hate speech with phrases of love, wisdom and encouragement from ancient Jewish texts.

- Los Angeles County Department's Sheriff's deputies shot and killed a man who had barricaded himself in Gardena, authorities said Friday.

Former Santa Monica Mayor Rex Minter was killed in a single-engine aircraft crash Friday just south of the Santa Monica Pier, according to Santa Monica city officials.

Jurors in the trial of rapper Tory Lanez -- who is charged with shooting and wounding fellow rapper Megan Thee Stallion after an argument in the Hollywood Hills -- are set to resume deliberations Friday, one day after being handed the case.