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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.

The two helped set up a covert police station in lower Manhattan for China's Ministry of Public Security.

There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in the latest drawing of the multi-state Powerball lottery and the estimated jackpot for Monday's drawing is expected to grow to $235 million.

A man was rushed to a hospital in grave condition with traumatic injuries from a rescue at a river bed Sunday in Lincoln Heights, authorities said.