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A Los Angeles County firefighter Wednesday strongly denied claims that he displayed grisly photos of Kobe Bryant's remains to colleagues at an awards banquet in February 2020, a month after the helicopter crash that killed the NBA star and eight others

The parents of an 8-year-old special-needs child who died in 2017 less than a week after falling out of his chair in class said Wednesday they settled their negligence/wrongful death suit against the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District for $18 million.

A prosecutor told jurors Wednesday that a man charged with the cold-case killings of two women is a sexually motivated serial killer who should be convicted of first- degree murder, while the man's attorney countered that the prosecution had not proven its case and urged jurors to acquit his client.

COVID-related hospitalizations dropped again in Los Angeles County Wednesday, with the number of patients on pace to fall below the 1,000 mark this week, but another 15 deaths and 4,829 new cases were reported by the county.

A Los Angeles man accused of assaulting a San Francisco 49ers fan in a SoFi Stadium parking lot during the NFC championship game in January, leaving the victim in a medically induced coma, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a battery charge.

Retired NBA star Dwayne Wade Wednesday filed court papers asking that his 15-year-old transgender daughter be allowed to change her name from Zion Malachi Airamis Wade to Zaya Malachi Airamis Wade.

The death of actress Anne Heche was ruled accidental Wednesday by the Los Angeles County coroner's office, which found she died due to smoke inhalation and burns from the fire that erupted when she crashed her car into a Mar Vista home.

A 48-year-old Oklahoma man who had a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old runaway girl and traveled with her to Newport Beach pleaded guilty Wednesday and was immediately sentenced to 42 days in jail -- time he has already served since his arrest.

The Los Angeles Police Department is facing a "declining amount" of applicants for positions, a department representative said at a meeting of the city council's Public Safety Committee Wednesday.

A former executive assistant for the Diane & Guilford Glazer Foundation is suing her ex-employer, alleging she was wrongfully fired in 2021 for taking medical leave to deal with depression associated with a month-long bout with the coronavirus.