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At Sunday's awards ceremony, all eight best new artist nominees are musicians whose popularity skyrocketed thanks to the social media app.
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Criminal Justice
Ryan Wedding is accused of running a billion-dollar drug trafficking ring and orchestrating multiple killings.
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There were 230 homicides in L.A. in 2025. The decline follows national crime trends.Listen 0:40
Housing & Homelessness
Shirley Raines, known as Ms. Shirley to friends and followers on social media, focused her work on building up the dignity of unhoused people.
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The Lincoln Safe Sleep Village is set to close Saturday. The site provided unhoused people with tents, meals, bathrooms and security.Listen 0:44 -
L.A. County officials have issued a strategy report advising local governments on how to clear people from encampments near major events.
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Civics & Democracy
Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy awards, his attorney, Abbe Lowell, said in a statement.
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It’s not easy to lose a day of revenue, but these businesses are joining L.A.’s “ICE Out” day of action on Friday. -
The Department of Justice on Friday released more than 3 million pages, more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images in its files tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Transportation & Mobility
The city recorded 53 fatal traffic collisions, the most in more than 10 years.
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A major electrical subcontractor on the LAX train says it’s owed tens of millions of dollars from the 2024 global settlement.
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Climate & Environment
A wind advisory has been issued for some L.A. County mountains until 2 p.m. where wind gusts could reach up to 50 mph.
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Officials with Friends of Big Bear Valley, the nonprofit that runs a popular YouTube livestream of the nest, confirmed the crack Friday. -
Starting Saturday, two all-terrain wheelchairs will be available to rent for free, helping people with mobility challenges enjoy more of the outdoors.Listen 0:42
Gardening & Outdoors
The rare plant blooms every four to six years and emits a foul smell in the process.
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Research is showing that California native plants growing next to, say, avocado groves is good for the orchard and for all kinds of pollinators.
Health
CHOC said they made the decision due to federal pressure. Advocates say the closure would likely have ripple effects that could reverberate for years.
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An American born in 2024 can expect to live to be 79, on average. But people in other wealthy countries can expect to live longer.Listen 2:22 -
In the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from WHO, California is the first state to participate in the agency's disease monitoring network. Are others following?Listen 3:52
Education
The Palisades Fire destroyed 30% of the campus, including 36 classrooms, storage facilities and the football stadium.
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Robert King’s classroom survived the Palisades Fire, but the collection of memorabilia he used to bring the story of our country alive to his students did not.Listen 0:45 -
The annual Pasadena Rose Parade took place less than a month ago, but it's already time to prep for 2027.
Food
LAist Director of Programming Jenn Baughman gives us her insider take on a day's worth of eating in her hometown.
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Guelaguetza’s Bricia Lopez and LocoL’s Daniel Patterson are heading up the first two fundraising dinners.
Explore LA
The festival will be June 11-15 at the Coliseum. There will also be "fan zones" throughout the city.
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Dramatic writing professor Oliver Mayer says it's an honor to be a voice of calm in a fractious world.Listen 1:42 -
Only a handful of people outside of library staff ever saw what went inside in 1925 — until now.
Arts & Entertainment
On FilmWeek, Larry Mantle speaks with the author Robert Hofler about his new book, “A Star is Reborn: The Most Filmed Hollywood Story of Love Found and Lost."
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The late actor, whose career spans over five decades, died in her home in Los Angeles. -
O'Hara enjoyed a six-decade career in TV and films playing sometimes over-the-top, but endearing characters.
LA History
One of SoCal's most infamous roads has reopened, but locals don't want you to know — for good reason
'The Snake,' a 2.4-mile stretch of Mulholland Drive, is known for its hairpin turns and the legions of motorists looking to tame it.
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Before we got the iconic art deco building, L.A.’s main library collection practically couch-surfed for decades. -
The motel was up for historic status before it was destroyed.Listen 3:52
Orange County
Orange County supervisors approve $33 million Airport Fire settlement.
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That means the beach city's bid to require voters to show ID when casting ballots cannot be implemented.
