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A toilet-paper ribbon was cut Thursday by Los Angeles city officials to signify the opening of the city’s first self-cleaning toilet at the North Hollywood Recreation Center.

Three women and a man were shot Thursday in the Skid Row area near downtown Los Angeles, and two suspect were being sought.

Guillermo Robles, who is blind, has tried to order a custom pizza from Domino’s at least twice in recent years, using the company’s website and mobile app. He says despite using screen reading software, he wasn’t able to order the food, because the website is not accessible to blind people. So three years ago, Robles filed a lawsuit against the...

If you have a commercial website, be warned that it may become part of a discrimination lawsuit. Randy Mac explains on NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Mar. 6, 2019.

A new lawsuit contends Walmart’s self-checkout kiosks aren’t fully accessible to blind customers and therefore violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Billionaire Richard DeVos, co-founder of direct-selling giant Amway, owner of the Orlando Magic and father-in-law of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, died Thursday. He was 92. Family spokesman Nick Wasmiller says DeVos died at his Ada, Michigan, home due to complications from an infection. DeVos was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He started Amway along with friend, Jay Van Andel, in...

Through tears, former Dallas County ADA Jody Warner apologized Tuesday for the way she recently spoke to an Uber driver, but added that there was more to the story than what was heard in an audio recording posted on social media.

A 1-month-old baby found on the side of an Oklahoma interstate in a car seat stuffed with $5,500 in cash and a birth certificate was in state custody Monday as authorities continued to investigate why the boy was abandoned. Oklahoma City police said a church group returning from an amusement park spotted the child Saturday about 10 feet (3 meters)...

A retired NYPD lieutenant, two retired NYPD officers and a former Brooklyn assistant district attorney were arrested early Tuesday by FBI agents in an alleged scam by which police employees expedited gun permit requests in exchange for paid vacations, jewelry, catered parties, cash and strippers.

Skip Horween’s great-grandmother wanted nothing to do with football. In fact, her two sons were so petrified she would find out they were messing around with the barbaric-looking game that they decided to play under assumed names. That’s how it came to be that Arnold and Ralph “McMahon,” both standouts on the Harvard football team a century ago, managed to...

A debate about what constitutes a service animal is angering some people. Randy Mac reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Nov. 12, 2015.

There are people out there who are abusing the service dog privilege, taking their animals everywhere and passing them off as service animals.

A woman with a disability that affects her mobility contends she has been turned away from numerous motels because of her service dog, despite federal law that service animals are protected and cannot be subject to the same rules as pets.

A woman with a disability says she has been wrongly denied a place to stay at LA-area motels because of her service dog. Patrick Healy reports for the NBC4 News at 5 and 6 p.m. on Oct. 12, 2015.

Transportation officials in New Jersey laid out plans Thursday to accommodate what’s expected to be several hundred thousand people passing through on the way to Philadelphia on September 26 and 27. NBC 4 New York’s Brian Thompson has more.

A slew of lawsuits filed against small business owners have led to settlements that some owners say make them feel more like the victims.