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Smartphones and video calls have changed how people communicate using sign language, New York Times reporter Amanda Morris says. Some signs are changing because they require gestures too sweeping to fit inside the small window of a Zoom or FaceTime call. “We have this box now, that you have to kind of fit the signs in,” Morris explains.

During the month of July, Cabrillo National Monument will be offering guided tours in American Sign Language (ASL).

As stars Eric Church and Jazmine Sullivan belted the National Anthem into their mics at Super Bowl LV, a trailblazing artist hailing from the DMV area and graduate of Gallaudet University in D.C. communicated the emotion, lyrics and rhythm to Deaf viewers across America.

They’re used to explaining speeches and press conferences, but American Sign Language interpreters are saying the coronavirus pandemic has presented the most difficult and inspiring assignment of their careers. “This is something that is literally life or death,” said Rorri Burton, one of the interpreters contracted by Green Translations who have been delivering Los Angeles County’s coronavirus updates to...

Sign language interpreters have become an important part of state and health officials’ public addresses. Lolita Lopez reports for the NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on Friday, April 24, 2020.

Neil Cordova and Rorri Burton are two of the ASL translators that you see every day communicating much-needed information about COVID-19 to the deaf and hard of hearing. Lolita Lopez reports for the NBC4 I-Team at 11 p.m. Friday, April 24, 2020.

A man accused of gunning down the co-owner of a Downey liquor store, then shooting at officers from the passenger seat of a car driven by his girlfriend in a wild televised chase has died, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

A man accused of gunning down the co-owner of a Downey liquor store, then shooting at officers from the passenger seat of a car driven by his girlfriend in a wild televised chase was charged with murder and other felonies, prosecutors said Tuesday.

The man who shot at police during a high-speed police chase is identified as a man from Torrance. Rick Montanez reports on NBC4 News at 8 p.m. on May 11, 2019.

Police Thursday released surveillance video of a gunman who shot and killed a co-owner of a Downey liquor store during a possible attempted robbery.

Customer were grieving outside the store after learning of the employee’s shooting death. Toni Guinyard reports for Today in LA on Wednesday May 8, 2019.

Customers remembered a beloved Downey convenience store employee shot and killed late Tuesday as a kind-hearted man who was well-known in the community.

Cell phone video of a remarkable exchange between a deaf woman and a North Florida Starbucks barista has gone viral on social media.

Abreham Zemedagegehu learned that he’d been accused of stealing an iPad – an iPad whose owner later found it.