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The soccer coach jailed on suspicion of murdering 13-year-old Oscar Omar Hernandez was charged Tuesday with an additional count for an alleged sexual attack on a teen in 2022. Mario Edgardo Garcia Aquino, 43, was set to make an initial appearance in court Tuesday afternoon in downtown Los Angeles. He was charged Monday with first-degree murder for ...

The LA Fire Department says nearly a third of all firefighting responses in the last seven years have been tied to persons experiencing homelessness, and in a new report, officials suggested the Fire Department should begin to get its own share of the billions of dollars the City has spent on homeless relief efforts to bolster its own $838 million&...

Prosecutors in Los Angeles filed a murder charge with special circumstances Monday in the disappearance and death of Oscar Omar Hernandez, a 13-year-old boy who vanished last month after visiting a soccer coach.

The convictions and death sentence of the one-time leader of an Atwater Village street gang, who police believed committed at least a dozen murders and who was once on the US Marshals most-wanted list, were overturned Thursday by the California Supreme Court, which found a juror was improperly dismissed during deliberations. Timothy McGhee was foun...

A lawsuit filed by residents who were impacted by January’s Palisades Fire claims to have evidence a second blaze occurred shortly after the initial fire, causing more destruction and devastation to the seaside community.

The Los Angeles Police Department says officers were involved in 45% more car chases last year, and about a third of them resulted in crashes. Of those wrecks, the percentage of injuries to innocent motorists or pedestrians rose by about 28%, with 114 reported in 2024 compared with 89 in 2023, according to new data prepared by the department. Three...

Close examinations have begun in Eaton Canyon of electrical lines, towers and other equipment, which could hold clues to pinpointing the cause of the January fire that destroyed thousands of homes, as the result of dozens of lawsuits filed against Southern California Edison by fire victims. An agreement between the victims and Edison, filed in cour...

Government and tax records show millions of dollars in gang intervention funds have poured into a pair of non-profits operated by an alleged gang leader of the Rollin’ 60s Crips, who prosecutors announced Wednesday was suspected of diverting thousands of dollars for his personal use. Eugene “Big U” Henley, Jr., 58, of the South LA...

Tax records show millions of dollars have poured into the non-profit, which was allegedly at the center of a criminal enterprise involving Eugene “Big U” Henley, Jr. Investigative Reporter Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.

A former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department recruit, who was about 14 weeks through academy training to become a deputy, was arrested on suspicion of threatening a man with a handgun in Lynwood. Kiwan Newbell, 36, was arrested March 10 by the LASD’s Internal Criminal Investigation Bureau on suspicion of assault with a firearm, a fe...

State fire safety officials have repeatedly warned Southern California Edison to improve weather tracking to help prevent wind-driven fire.

Andrea Morris and her family have been fighting for workers’ compensation benefits from City of Hope for nearly 5 years.

A protest by the non-profit “4Kira4Moms” was held outside Cedars-Sinai Medical Center demanding the hospital provide safe and equitable maternal care. Carolyn Johnson reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Feb. 20, 2025.