A powerful atmospheric river had mostly moved through California after causing at least six deaths and dousing much of the state, but lingering thunderstorms brought the risk of mudslides in areas of Los Angeles County that were recently ravaged by wildfire.

An unusually strong storm system called an atmospheric river was dousing Southern California on Saturday, prompting flood warnings in areas of coastal Los Angeles County that recently were ravaged by wildfires.

The Los Angeles District Attorney's Office says a grand jury indictment was unsealed charging a former Los Angeles police officer in the 2015 shooting death of an unarmed homeless man.

Los Angeles County has reached a tentative $828 million agreement to settle more than 400 additional sexual abuse claims against county employees that were not included in an earlier settlement that was the largest sexual abuse settlement in U.S. history.

Los Angeles County officials have declared a state of emergency that gives them power to provide assistance for residents they say have suffered financially from ongoing federal immigration raids.

Residents in the Western U.S. are enduring a heat wave with temperatures reaching dangerous levels across Washington, Oregon, Southern California, Nevada, and Arizona.

Firefighters with air support are scrambling to control a fast-moving wildfire that erupted in hills along Interstate 5 in northwestern Los Angeles County.

Authorities are looking into whether grenades recovered from a Santa Monica apartment complex were the cause of an explosion last week at a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department training facility.

A police officer was killed and another was injured in a shooting in a city east of Los Angeles.

Los Angeles County officials have approved a $4 billion payout to settle nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse in juvenile facilities since 1959.

More than 50,000 Los Angeles County workers are walking picket lines to demand higher pay.

Tens of thousands of Los Angeles county workers are going on strike, closing libraries and disrupting administrative operations across the region.

A jury on has found rapper Soulja Boy liable for sexually assaulting and physically and emotionally abusing a former assistant.

Prosecutors say a Southern California youth soccer coach charged with killing a 13-year-old boy last month is being investigated in connection with alleged sexual assaults on at least two other teens in recent years.

A youth soccer coach has been charged in the death of a 13-year-old whose body was found on the side of a Southern California road.

Los Angeles County has reached a $4 billion agreement to settle nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse in juvenile facilities since 1959.

Officials say Los Angeles County has reached a $4 billion agreement to settle nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse in juvenile facilities since 1959.

A German shepherd-husky dog has evaded capture for nearly two months after being rescued from a California shelter and running away from her adoptive home in Alaska.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says it will retest 4,000 DNA samples and open an internal investigation after learning that it used potentially flawed test kits for eight months.

The district attorney of Los Angeles says he does not support the resentencing of Lyle and Erik Menendez.

Los Angeles County says it is suing Southern California Edison, alleging the utility’s equipment sparked January’s Eaton Fire, which destroyed more than 9,400 structures and killed 17 people in the Altadena area.

When disaster strikes, government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise: Residents will get information about nearby dangers and instructions to help them stay safe.

Rain that began falling in parched Southern California will aid firefighters mopping up multiple wildfires.

A new sentencing hearing for brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez in the killing of their parents has been delayed for nearly two months because of Southern California’s wildfires.

Firefighters scrambled to make further progress against wildfires that have killed at least 24 people in the Los Angeles area as forecasters again warned of dangerous weather with the return of strong winds this week.

The wildfires tearing through Los Angeles have taken lives and thousands of homes.

The new Los Angeles County district attorney has met with the Menendez brothers’ family as he continues to review the brothers' bid for freedom 35 years after they were convicted of killing their parents.

The aging computer dispatch system for the nation's largest sheriff's department remains out of commission.

Los Angeles County is taking on Pepsi and Coke for their role in plastic pollution.

It’s always hot this time of year in central Arizona, but 2024's endless summer has been especially hot in Phoenix.

Can tech help solve Southern California's homeless crisis.

Big new wildfires are challenging California firefighters even as they increase containment of earlier blazes that erupted as dry winds arrived last weekend.

Up to one-third of the 12,000 inmates in Los Angeles County jails can’t get to their court appearances because of a shortage of functioning buses.

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón has advanced to a runoff in his reelection bid.

California's Legislative Black Caucus is pushing for lawmakers to pass a package of more than a dozen reparations proposals.

Los Angeles County’s annual count of homeless residents is under way.

The man charged with murder in the ambush killing of a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy has entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.

A man has been arrested in the ambush killing of a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy who was shot as he sat in a patrol car.

A landslide that has destroyed homes in a Southern California community appears to have slowed but more homes have been evacuated.

Leaders of a Southern California city hit by a destructive landslide are planning to vote on a resolution to declare a local emergency.

A landslide is tearing apart luxury homes on Southern California’s Palos Verdes Peninsula.

The number of homeless residents counted in Los Angeles County has spiked again, increasing by 9% since last year.

A California man who spent 33 years in prison for attempted murder has been declared innocent.

Drug overdose deaths in the U.S. rose slightly in 2022.

California's coronavirus emergency declaration is ending.

Los Angeles authorities have given a little girl a license to own a unicorn — if she can find one.

Authorities have released from custody a young man who was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder of a peace officer after the SUV he was driving veered into the wrong lane and crashed into Los Angeles County law enforcement recruits on a training run, injuring 25.

Authorities have arrested a 22-year-old driver on suspicion of attempted murder after he veered into the wrong lane and struck Los Angeles County sheriff’s academy recruits on a training run.

Authorities say 25 Los Angeles County sheriff’s academy recruits on a training run were hit by a vehicle that veered onto the wrong side of the road Wednesday morning, and five were critically injured.

Prosecutors say two Los Angeles County deputies won’t face criminal charges for fatally shooting a Black man they tried to stop for riding a bicycle the wrong direction.

A Los Angeles judge has declared a mistrial and dismissed grand theft charges against a former business manager of Marvel Comics mastermind Stan Lee.

The founder and CEO of a software company targeted by election deniers has been arrested on suspicion of stealing personal identifying information on hundreds of Los Angeles County poll workers.

Some firefighters battling a Southern California blaze are being pulled back to rest after seven were sent to the hospital in the midst of a grueling heat wave.

A federal jury has found that Los Angeles County must pay Kobe Bryant’s widow $16 million for emotional distress caused by deputies and firefighters sharing photos of the bodies of the NBA star and his daughter taken at the site of the 2020 helicopter crash that killed them.

Los Angeles County has dropped a plan to impose a universal indoor mask mandate this week as COVID-19 infections and rates of hospitalizations have stabilized.

Metro Phoenix’s Maricopa County had among the biggest growth in white, Black and Hispanic residents last year, as well as the biggest increase overall of any U.S. county.

The Los Angeles County sheriff disputed allegations he orchestrated the cover-up of an incident where a deputy knelt on a handcuffed inmate’s head for more than three minutes.

A new report shows that nearly 2,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles County during the first year of the pandemic, an increase of 56% from the previous year, driven mainly by drug overdoses.

California workplace regulators have extended mandatory pay for workers affected by the coronavirus through the end of 2022.

California's unemployment rate has fallen to 5.4% after employers added a surprising 138,100 jobs in February.

A Los Angeles audit finds that a $1.2 billion program intended to quickly build housing for the city's homeless residents is moving too slowly, and costs are climbing.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti thought it was nuts to host a NASCAR race inside the Coliseum the first time he heard the idea.

Lawyers for Los Angeles County failed in their bid to persuade a federal judge to end Vanessa Bryant’s lawsuit over gruesome photos of the helicopter crash that killed her husband, Kobe Bryant, her daughter Gianna and seven others.

A year after New Year’s Day passed without a Rose Parade due to the coronavirus pandemic, the floral spectacle celebrating the arrival of 2022 marched on despite a new surge of infections.

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said he won’t comply with a mandate requiring deputies be vaccinated against the coronavirus or face termination.

The proportion of coronavirus infections and hospitalizations among vaccinated Pennsylvania residents has risen sharply in the past month, although the shots remain broadly protective.

The California recall election was a blowout win for Gov. Gavin Newsom that reinforced the state’s political divisions.

Los Angeles County’s board of supervisors voted unanimously on Wednesday to phase out oil and gas drilling and ban new drill sites in the unincorporated areas of the county.

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer will miss the rest of the season.

Police have presented to prosecutors their investigation of Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer.

Federal health regulators have again extended the expiration dates on Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine by another six weeks.

South Korea’s prime minister has offered a public apology over a large-scale coronavirus outbreak on a destroyer on an anti-piracy mission off East Africa.

An executive order put in place by Governor Ron DeSantis banning local government from requiring masks will not be repealed, even as hospitals teeter on the edge of capacity for COVID-19 patients.

Los Angeles County’s public health officer says a rapid and sustained increase in COVID-19 cases in the nation’s largest county requires a return to mandatory mask-wearing indoors even when people are vaccinated.

Los Angeles County is reporting the fifth straight day of more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases.

A Los Angeles County firefighter appeared to have a longstanding job-related dispute with the co-worker he fatally shot at their rural fire station this week.

Authorities say an off-duty Los Angeles County firefighter fatally shot a fellow firefighter and wounded another at their fire station before going to his nearby home, setting it on fire and apparently killing himself.

Court documents say two Los Angeles County firefighters could be fired and a third suspended after some first responders took and shared graphic photos from the site of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his teenage daughter and seven others.

Los Angeles and San Francisco have met state guidelines to move into the least-restrictive tier for businesses to reopen during the coronavirus pandemic.

Sports, theater and music fans will be able to take their seats again in California as the state’s coronavirus cases plunge and vaccinations jump.

Police march toward demonstrators in the Echo Park section of Los Angeles Thursday, March 25, 2021. Demonstrators gathered Wednesday night to protest the planned temporary closure of a Los Angeles park that would displace a large homeless encampment, which has grown throughout the coronavirus pandemic. Ramirez, who said she has lived at parks in Los Angeles and in neighboring Orange County, said she moved in days earlier. A January 2020 count by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority reported that there were more than 66,400 homeless people living in Los Angeles County — by far the largest single concentration in the state. AdThat included more than 41,000 people within Los Angeles city limits.

Indian men wait in an observation room after receiving the Covishield COVID-19 vaccine at a government hospital in Hyderabad, India, Friday, March 12, 2021. The state health department sent a notice Thursday to the hospitals, pharmacies, clinics and other community providers of the coronavirus vaccine detailing the state’s expectations. AdBrazil has already secured contracts for 200 million vaccine doses, half made by AstraZeneca and half by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac. It could use those mechanisms as well to expand eligibility___PRAGUE — The health authorities in the Czech Republic have administered over 1 million coronavirus vaccine shots. Blatny says the country will receive 1.13 million vaccines of Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca in March.

Chandler Street village was developed and funded by Los Angeles as part of an emergency response to the worsening homelessness crisis. A 2020 tally found there were 66,400 homeless people in Los Angeles County — up more than 12% from the previous year. The tiny home village had to overcome some “not-in-my-backyard” reactions from nearby residents who needed to be convinced it's a safe, clean opportunity for shelter, Kerkorian said. AdAdvocates for the homeless applaud the effort, saying every bit of shelter helps amid the deepening crisis. The goal for Chandler Street residents is to stay a few months and then transition to more permanent housing.

(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California will begin sending 40% of all vaccine doses to the most vulnerable neighborhoods in the state to try to inoculate people most at risk from the coronavirus and get the state’s economy open more quickly, Gov. The areas are considered most vulnerable based on metrics such as household income, education level and access to health care. Setting aside 40% of vaccine supply essentially means that hard-hit ZIP codes will be administering double what they are currently, Ghaly said. Data show that of shots given, only about 17% were administered in vulnerable communities that have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. He said he expects all communities to receive at least as many doses of vaccine as they are receiving now.

(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California will begin setting aside 40% of all vaccine doses for the state’s most vulnerable neighborhoods in an effort to inoculate people most at risk from the coronavirus and get the state’s economy open more quickly. The doses will be spread out among 400 ZIP codes with about 8 million people eligible for shots. The areas are considered most vulnerable based on metrics such as household income, education level, housing status and access to transportation. Once the state gives out 4 million doses in those neighborhoods, it will revise the metrics for getting into the even less restrictive orange and yellow tiers. Yet community health clinics focused on serving low-income and vulnerable Californians say they haven't been getting enough doses.

(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)LOS ANGELES – Detectives are looking at data from the “black box” of Tiger Woods' SUV to get a clearer picture of what occurred during the Southern California rollover crash that seriously injured the golf star, authorities said Wednesday. There was no immediate information regarding what was found in the black box, Deputy Trina Schrader said in a statement. The 2021 GV80, made by the Hyundai luxury brand, is likely to have a newer version of event data recorders nicknamed “black boxes” after more sophisticated recorders in airplanes. AdUSA TODAY first reported the search warrant, noting that deputies did not seek one for samples of Woods' blood. Villanueva did not specifically say Wednesday that investigators had not sought a search warrant for blood samples.

After a year of struggling to boost testing, communities across the country are seeing plummeting demand, shuttering testing sites or even trying to return supplies. “We just don’t have enough people who are immune to rule out another surge.”U.S. testing hit a peak on Jan. 15, when the country was averaging more than 2 million tests per day. “People just aren’t going to go out to testing sites.”AdBut testing remains important for tracking and containing the outbreak. That’s more than 25 times the country’s current rate of about 40 million tests reported per month. From a public health viewpoint, testing is effective if it helps to quickly find the infected, trace their contacts and isolate them to stop the spread.

The Los Angeles man adopted her as a 2-month-old kitten in 2005. (Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control via AP)LOS ANGELES – A cat that went astray about 15 years ago has been reunited, older and maybe wiser, with its owner. Brandy, a brown tabby, was reunited Monday afternoon with Charles, who adopted her as a 2-month-old kitten in 2005. Charles went on with his life. “She basically weighed as much as when she was a kitten," Charles said.

Los Angeles County emergency medical technicians deliver patients for admission at the Ambulatory Care Center station at the MLK Community Medical Group hospital in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. Johns Hopkins University put California’s overall COVID-19 death toll at 50,890. The death toll climbed precipitously amid a fall and winter surge that has begun to taper off as cases and hospitalizations drop. Los Angeles County on Wednesday reported an additional 136 deaths, accounting for nearly half of the state’s 314 additional deaths. Black people make up 6% of the state’s population and account for 4% of cases and 6% of deaths.

The coronavirus death toll in California surpassed 50,000 on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021, marking about one-tenth of the U.S. total from the pandemic. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles County on Wednesday reported another 806 deaths from coronavirus during the winter surge, pushing California’s toll above 50,000, or about one-tenth of the U.S. total from the pandemic. Johns Hopkins University put California’s overall COVID-19 death toll at 50,890. The death toll climbed precipitously amid a fall and winter surge that has begun to taper off as cases and hospitalizations drop. Los Angeles County on Wednesday reported an additional 136 new deaths, accounting for nearly half of the state's 314 additional deaths.

JACKSONVIlle, Fla. – One critical component of the SUV that Tiger Woods was driving when he crashed Tuesday in California will likely be analyzed as authorities investigate the accident. Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said Wednesday that the department hasn’t yet pulled information from the SUV’s event data recorder. The device can reveal things like what speed Woods was driving and whether he turned the steering wheel in the seconds before the crash. “The interest in learning what happened wouldn’t be there (if it wasn’t Woods),” Portigliatti said. Portigliatti said things like whether Tiger turned his wheel abruptly before the crash could be critical.

A crane is used to lift a vehicle following a rollover accident involving golfer Tiger Woods, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, in the Rancho Palos Verdes suburb of Los Angeles. Chiu)LOS ANGELES – Tiger Woods was seriously injured Tuesday when his SUV crashed into a median, rolled over and ended up on its side near a steep road in suburban Los Angeles known for wrecks, authorities said. The crash happened on a sweeping, downhill stretch of a two-lane road through upscale Los Angeles suburbs. AdWoods was in Los Angeles over the weekend as the tournament host of the Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club, where he presented the trophy on Sunday. — Jack Nicklaus (@jacknicklaus) February 23, 2021Basketball legend Magic Johnson tweeted:Everyone send your prayers out to Tiger Woods!

In barely a year since the virus was first detected in the state, 1 in 1,000 Californians have died from it. Los Angeles County, the nation’s most populous with a quarter of the state’s nearly 40 million residents, has more than 40% of California’s virus deaths. Rios Luna, 22, said she was especially cautious with her mother since the pandemic began. “Once I saw her in the bed, it honestly, it broke my heart,” Rios Luna said. “We feel like she waited for us to go see her,” Rios Luna said.

The California Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation to determine whether the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department has engaged in a pattern or practice of unconstitutional policing, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. While Becerra would not identify any specific incidents, the attorney general urged Los Angeles County residents to report potential abuses to his office. Villanueva pledged transparency with the state and said his department regularly requests for the Department of Justice to monitor its investigations. The sheriff's department was previously under federal investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. In September, the Los Angeles Times reported that a congressional subcommittee had asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate allegations of systemic abuse by “criminal gangs” of deputies within the department.

(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California on Wednesday said it’s safe to resume using a batch of Moderna coronavirus vaccine after some people fell ill and a halt to injections was recommended. About 330,000 doses from the lot had been distributed to nearly 300 providers in California this month. More than 4 million doses had been shipped and about 1.5 million had been administered as of Tuesday, according to figures from the state public health department. “The chief obstacle we are facing is not enough doses,” said Roland Pickens, director of San Francisco’s public health care system, at a supervisors’ hearing Wednesday. The total of 694 new deaths is second to the record 708 reported Jan. 8, according to the state Department of Public Health.

State officials said Friday they have helped distribute 98 refrigerated trailers to help county coroners store dead bodies. There are now 98 of the trailers to help county coroners store bodies “with respect and dignity,” Office of Emergency Services Director Mark Ghilarducci said. California has received more than 3.5 million doses of the vaccine and has administered just over 1 million doses. Newsom said the state was on pace to exceed his goal of giving out roughly 1.5 million doses by Friday. While California has the second-highest number of deaths in the country, the state ranks 39th in the number of deaths per capita at 81.8.

Mississippi's Health Department stopped taking new appointments the same day it began accepting them because of a “monumental surge” in requests. In California, counties begged for more coronavirus vaccine to reach millions of their senior citizens. “This is about life and death.”In Mississippi, officials said new appointments will probably have to wait until a hoped-for shipment of vaccine in mid-February. But the local hospital had no openings on Wednesday, Clark said, and the other vaccination sites are too far away. “She’s too old.”Allison Salerno, an audio producer from Athens, Georgia, said she spent the better part of a day calling her state’s health department to get a vaccine appointment for her 89-year-old mother.

(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)BEIJING — China says it is now treating more than 1,000 people for COVID-19 as numbers of cases continue to surge in the country’s north. ___AUSTIN, Texas — Texas has distributed more than 1 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, Gov. State health officials say Texas had more than 14,000 COVID-19 patients in hospitals and its death toll has passed 30,000. ___COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina will now allow medical students, retired nurses and other qualified professionals to administer the COVID-19 vaccine. ___MADRID — Spain reported 35,878 confirmed coronavirus cases and 201 new deaths from the coronavirus.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California lifted a stay-at-home order in the 13-county Sacramento region on Tuesday as hospital conditions improved, a rare turn of good news as the state pushes through what Gov. Three of the state's five regions — the San Francisco Bay Area, Central Valley and Southern California — remain under the stay-at-home order because their intensive care capacity at hospitals is severely limited. To try to get the virus in check California, is moving more quickly to distribute vaccines. Newsom imposed the nation's first statewide stay-at-home order in March. Supervisor Mike Ziegenmeyer of Sutter County in the Sacramento region acknowledged as much when he reacted to the order being lifted.

People wait in cars for a vaccination against the coronavirus at a new "vaccination superstation," Monday, Jan. 11, 2021, in San Diego. The site, which opened Monday, began providing large-scale COVID-19 vaccinations to health care workers. California has deployed 88 refrigerated trailers to use as makeshift morgues mostly in hard-hit Southern California, where traditional storage space is dwindling. “People are eager to come out and grateful for this opportunity,” she said, with more than 12,500 health care workers in San Diego County initially scheduling an appointment. ___Watson reported from San Diego.