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 Zoom Video Communications is rapidly emerging as the latest internet gold mine as millions of people flock to its conferencing service to see colleagues, friends and family while tethered to their homes during the pandemic. Tuesday’s release of the once-obscure company’s financial results for the February-April period provided a w...

Los Angeles County’s first West Nile virus positive mosquito sample of the season was reported Monday, while vector control in Palm Desert also reported mosquito samples testing positive for WNV and St. Louis Encephalitis. The Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District said the mosquitoes were collected from a trap in Hacien...

The University of Southern California will resume in-person classes in August, President Carol Folt announced in a letter posted on the university’s website Tuesday. Folt wrote that the semester will begin Aug. 17, a week earlier than scheduled, and end before Thanksgiving, adding that social-distancing protocols will be put in place to prote...

Thousands thronged the streets of Los Angeles in peaceful protests Tuesday and smaller demonstrations dotted California while authorities renewed overnight curfews in LA and other areas that have seen clashes with police and groups of thieves wreck hundreds of businesses. There were several sizable demonstrations in Los Angeles and Mayor Eric Garce...

Police in the San Francisco Bay Area arrested a man on suspicion of murdering and cannibalizing his own grandmother.

Police were in pursuit of a vehicle in the South Los Angeles area Tuesday night. Newschopper4 Bravo was over the chase around 9:50 p.m. The driver did multiple u-turns, leading police on a chase that went through parking lots and gas stations. At one point, police performed a PIT maneuver and seemed to have the driver trapped. However, the driver&#...

Felony charges were filed Tuesday against an 18-year-old Garden Grove man who claimed he was part of the Black Lives Matter movement after allegedly attempting to steal a police squad car. Quincy Lunford is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday on felony charges of resisting arrest and attempted vehicle theft, along with misdemeanor counts of resisti...

Mayor Eric Garcetti said Tuesday he still has confidence in Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore, despite his comments when he equated looting to the in-custody death of George Floyd. “I’ve known this man’s heart for decades. He was the person brought in after the Rampart scandal to clean up that station as a captain,&...

A pair of Santa Ana men — one who allegedly led police on a chase and the other accused of attacking officers — face charges Tuesday related to protests in the city this past weekend. Ernesto Isaiah Luquin, 23, was charged Tuesday with two felony counts of assault with a weapon on a peace officer. He was scheduled to be arraigned…...

Nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died while in police custody in Minneapolis last week, stretched into the early hours of Tuesday after a week of both peaceful protests and violent looting and rioting.

Looting and vandalism accompanying civil unrest over the past week is a second gut punch to small businesses impacted by coronavirus. Damage to small businesses has left owners scrambling to not just reopen, but to rebuild, and the cost for that could be passed on to taxpayers. Santa Monica Music Center owner Lana Fernandez Negrete is trying to fig...

A protester hugging National Guard troop members at a peaceful demonstration in Hollywood Tuesday afternoon got emotional in a TV interview after guardsmen and protesters took a knee together. Malcolm Weston, wearing a yellow shirt, black gloves — likely to protect against COVID-19 — and a black cap representing LA, said he shouldn&#821...