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Capitol One will pay $2 million to settle litigation with prosecutors in four counties, including Los Angeles, over the company's debt collection practices, authorities announced Thursday.

The average daily number of new COVID-19 infections reported in LACounty over the past week dipped by about 21% from the previous week, and daily hospital admissions also declined, the public health director said, but the county is seeing elevated virus-related death totals.

A Los Angeles police officer is scheduled to be arraigned next week on misdemeanor charges of allegedly distributing "intimate" photos of his wife without her consent.

Former Los Angeles City Councilman José Huizar wants a severance from his co-defendant and is asking a federal judge to allow him to proceed to trial separately from ex-Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan, according to court papers obtained Thursday by City News Service.

A man's body was found Friday at the Fallbrook Center mall in West Hills, and an investigation was underway.

The mother of a 15-year-old girl who died of an overdose in a bathroom at Bernstein High School in Hollywood announced a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Unified School District Wednesday, alleging school officials knew there was a problem with drug use at the campus but took no action

Actor/comedian Eddie Murphy was named Wednesday the recipient of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Cecil B. DeMille Award, which honors "outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment."

The Metropolitan Water District's Board of Directors has declared a regional drought emergency for the Southern California region as the agency prepares for a fourth consecutive dry year, the MWD announced Wednesday.

The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens has acquired the archive of "Gravity's Rainbow" author Thomas Pynchon, considered by many to be among the greatest novelists of our time, officials said Wednesday.

A man who attacked comedian Dave Chappelle on stage at the Hollywood Bowl in May pleaded no contest Wednesday to one misdemeanor count each of battery and entering a restricted area during a live event.