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A man was charged today with trying to sexually assault a 16-year-old girl in the restroom of a Whittier grocery store.

A judge has cleared attorney Mark Geragos, a fellow lawyer and his firm of any wrongdoing in a case brought by a former client who alleged the defendants did little on his behalf despite accepting nearly $30,000 to represent him in a criminal case.

COVID-19 masking rules will be eased in Los Angeles County starting Friday, with health officials announcing Wednesday they will lift the requirement for face coverings in correctional facilities and homeless shelters, while indoor mask-wearing in general will become a matter of preference.

Firefighters sent to the 500 block of North Park Row Drive shortly before noon contained the flames in about a half-hour, the Los Angeles Fire Department reported.

A final part of litigation brought after a 61-year-old woman who was killed by a falling 80-foot tree at her daughter's 2016 wedding party in Whittier has concluded with the wedding photographer's assistant agreeing to a settlement.

Authorities Wednesday said at least seven local teens, including a 15-year-old Bernstein High School girl who died a week ago, have overdosed in the past month from pills believed to have contained fentanyl.

A 23-year-old man pleaded not guilty Wednesday in connection with an arson fire that destroyed a historic church in South Los Angeles and left three firefighters injured.

A judge Wednesday pared a lawsuit filed by a man who claims a Palos Verdes Estates psychic falsely promised him in 2021 that she could remove a curse put in place by the man's ex-girlfriend in exchange for $5,100.

Having already dismissed the city of Baldwin Park as a defendant in a lawsuit brought by relatives of a Covina couple killed during a police pursuit, a judge has indicated he is poised to doing the same with the city of West Covina.

Firefighters rescued a 13-year-old blind dog that fell into a 15-foot hole at a construction site in Pasadena, authorities said Wednesday