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Los Angeles could have a citywide plan to address street takeovers, with five City Council members filing a motion Wednesday seeking reports and analysis for a multi-year work plan and funding strategy.

Reps. Mike Levin, D-Dana Point, and Young Kim, R- Placentia, teamed up with Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes Wednesday to tout nearly $3.5 million in funding for a new sheriff's facility that will help combat terrorism, school shootings and other types of crimes.

A 32-year-old man gunned down a bookie he knew as "uncle" in his car when the two met up in a Huntington Beach parking lot to discuss his gambling debt, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday, but the defendant's attorney said his client acted in self-defense.

Almost half of all adult Californians and more than a quarter of teens in L.A. County reported experiencing anxiety or depression last year due to impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Children's Hospital Los Angeles survey released Thursday.

The California state legislature passed a bill removing Christopher Columbus' name from the portion of the Interstate 10 freeway that crosses Los Angeles on Wednesday, drawing praise from Los Angeles City Councilman Mitch O'Farrell Thursday.

A 25-year-old parolee was arrested Wednesday in the armed robbery of two people outside a 99 Ranch Market in Rowland Heights.

Eviction protections in Los Angeles implemented during the pandemic could sunset on Dec. 31, according to a report released by the city's housing department.

Mayor Eric Garcetti announced a renewed commitment Wednesday for a pilot program between the Port of Los Angeles and Indonesia Port Corporation/Port of Jakarta on a port optimizer, as part of a memorandum of understanding signed in 2019 to help increase the flow of goods between the two cities.

Heather Hutt's nomination to serve as an interim member of the Los Angeles City Council moved forward in a committee hearing Wednesday, clearing the way for the council to consider her appointment to represent the 10th District.

A roughly 110-acre brush fire burning near San Gabriel Dam in the Angeles National Forest was 45% contained Thursday.