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A sultry blue Aston Martin clad in racy bright-yellow stripes careened into a Hustler Lingerie shop after colliding with another car Wednesday night in Hollywood. The crash was reported at about 10:30 p.m. in the 6500 block of Hollywood Boulevard. No serious injuries were reported. Two cars, the high-priced Aston Martin and a sedan, collided before...

Earthquakes are all too familiar in Southern California. The good news is that technology can now warn the public of possible impacts. The ShakeAlertLA app is the nation’s first publicly available early warning mobile app. The app does not predict earthquakes, rather it indicates an earthquake has happened and shaking is imminent. T...

The Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers are scheduled to resume their coronavirus-interrupted seasons Thursday night, facing each other at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex. The game will be the second of what the league has dubbed “seeding games.” The first will be between the Utah Jazz and New Orleans Pelicans. The restart...

A two-car crash damaged a Hustler store. Video broadcast Thursday July 30, 2020 on Today in LA.

Los Angeles County, which recently appeared headed for another lockdown amid escalating coronavirus cases, now is seeing fewer hospitalizations and a lower transmission rate that health officials said Wednesday are evidence people are heeding the call to change their behavior. The nation’s most populous county said 2,045 people were hospitalized, 2...

A 4-year-old was killed and a young sibling was injured, along with the children’s mother, in a fire Wednesday afternoon at a Pasadena apartment complex. Firefighters were dispatched about 2 p.m. to 169 E. Washington Blvd., near North Summit Avenue, according to Pasadena’s public information officer, Lisa Derderian. Two apartment u...

As of Wednesday, 153 people among the UCLA campus community had reported confirmed cases of COVID-19 to the university, the Westwood-based institution of higher learning said in a statement. “Consistent with the protocols for infectious disease response, anyone identified within our campus community as being at risk of exposure from these ind...

Councilman Mitch O’Farrell announced Wednesday that city engineers are beginning the schematic design phase of the Hollywood Walk of Fame Master Plan. The plan envisions Hollywood Boulevard along the Walk of Fame with wider sidewalks, more space for amenities like sidewalk dining, additional shade trees, enhanced lighting, a mobility lane and...

Fresh off their ESPY award for the “Sports Humanitarian Team of the Year,” the Los Angeles Dodgers continue their efforts to help the community during these uncertain and difficult times. On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation (LADF) partnered with the Helping Hands Community to deliver over 22,000 meals directly to the homes of...

A new and better-equipped exploration rover is on its 300 million-mile journey to Mars Thursday morning after lifting off from Cape Canaveral on the Florida coast.  Rover Perseverance is hitching a ride aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket that blasted off at about 4:50 a.m. California time. NASA’s science mission chief, Th...

Temperatures are heating up. Belen De Leon has the forecast for Thursday July 30, 2020.

The Orange County Board of Education announced Wednesday that it has decided — by a 4-0 vote — to file a lawsuit against Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Public Health Officer to seek a court order that sets aside the state orders preventing public schools from holding in-person classes and resuming services on campus. The vote came...

Health officials said Wednesday that farm workers in Ventura County will now be able to get tested for COVID-19 for free and without having to make an appointment. Since many of them live together in small rooms where social distancing is sometimes not possible, officials say it is of the utmost importance for them to be able to get tested…...