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Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon said Tuesday his office would review past prosecutions that involved a retired LAPD homicide detective, who was apparently recorded on cell phone video in Valencia using a racial slur during an argument that followed a minor traffic collision.

The B.1.1.7 specimen, submitted by a clinical facility, was sequenced as part of routine surveillance by the county’s Public Health Laboratory. The first confirmed case of B.1.1.7 was logged on January 16, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.

As the pandemic strains hospital resources across the country, some may have to consider activating “crisis standards of care.” Here’s what that means.

Two people are dying of COVID-19 every hour in California’s most populous county as the state set daily records for newly reported cases and deaths and hospitals struggle to keep up with the surge of coronavirus patients.

Barbara Ferrer, the L.A. County public health director, on Wednesday fought back tears as she delivered an update on the 8,000 Angelenos lost to the coronavirus.

They’re used to explaining speeches and press conferences, but American Sign Language interpreters are saying the coronavirus pandemic has presented the most difficult and inspiring assignment of their careers. “This is something that is literally life or death,” said Rorri Burton, one of the interpreters contracted by Green Translations who have been delivering Los Angeles County’s coronavirus updates to...

A distraught mother duck couldn’t get to her ducklings below after they fell into a storm drain, but members of the Los Angeles County Fire and University Police departments came to the rescue of the adorable babies Tuesday.

The scandal enveloping U.S. Rep. Katie Hill comes at a time when there seem to be few hard rules about conduct and consequence for public officials.

BSO released exterior surveillance videos showing law enforcement’s response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, after the Florida Supreme Court cleared the way for their release. NBC 6’s Jamie Guirola reports.

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Los Angeles County will pay $53 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged tens of thousands of women were given invasive group strip searches at a jail, according to court filings Tuesday.

An indictment unsealed in Los Angeles charged nine people accused of participating in voting fraud schemes — in which homeless people were allegedly offered cash or cigarettes in exchange for forged signatures on initiative petitions and voter registration forms.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed a preliminary agreement over Iran’s nuclear program, saying it “would threaten the survival of Israel,” NBC News reported.

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A woman who went to the midnight showing of “Avengers: Endgame” at an Orange County movie theater last week was diagnosed with measles, and now health officials are warning others in the crowd that they may have been exposed.