Boyle Heights

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office dropped its bid Friday to seek the death penalty against a Torrance man charged with raping and murdering a teenage girl and a young woman who were found dead less than a year apart.

The coronavirus has claimed the lives of at least 20 mariachis in Los Angeles but the need to go out to work is greater, so many of them continue to risk their lives.

The coronavirus has claimed the lives of at least 20 mariachis in Los Angeles but the need to go out to work is greater, so many of them continue to risk their lives. NBC4 News reports at 6 p.m. on Feb. 26, 2021.

A fiery two-vehicle crash in Boyle Heights Sunday that left two people critically injured was triggered by police pursuing a driver who nearly crashed into a patrol vehicle, authorities said.

With limited vaccines, the effort is starting small. Mekhalo Medina reported on NBC4 News on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021.

A Metro train operator was shot Friday at the Indiana Station in East Los Angeles and hospitalized in stable condition, and a reward totaling $35,000 was announced for information that leads to the identification, apprehension and conviction of the assailant.

The family had cleaned out their closets and used gift cards they’d saved to buy new clothes — thieves broke into the family truck and stole it all. But LAPD herd and helped. Kathy Vara reports Jan. 21, 2021.

A Boyle Heights family got some help from LAPD after thieves stole all of their new clothes, purchased with family savings and gift cards they’d saved from the children’s birthdays.

A body was found Tuesday night on the northbound 5 Freeway transition road to the eastbound 10 Freeway in Boyle Heights.

One man was fatally shot and two others were injured after a multiple shooting in Boyle Heights. NBC4 News reports at 11 p.m. on Jan. 9, 2021. 

One man was fatally shot and two others were injured after a multiple shooting in Boyle Heights Saturday night.

Adventist Health White Memorial hospital, a facility that’s been over-stretched by the COVID-19 virus and deluged with patients is getting some help now from the California National Guard, the state and the Army Corps of Engineers.

Some LA County hospitals are treating so many patients that their oxygen delivery system is being overruned. Six of those hospitals will start getting help Saturday. Michelle Valles reports on Saturday, Jan. 2, 2021.

La policía publicó el jueves la descripción de un hombre sospechoso de un accidente de atropello y fuga que hirió a una mujer en Boyle Heights a principios del mes de diciembre.

Local artists are paying special tribute with the Rose River Memorial Project that started in Boyle Heights. Angie Crouch reports for the NBC4 News on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020.

More than 320,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 and that number is rising by more than a thousand each day. Some local artists have come up with a unique way to honor those who’ve lost their lives with a memorial wall of roses. The red rose, an eternal symbol of love, is being used to memorialize those who lost their…

A person was taken to a hospital Thursday from the scene of a stabbing investigation on the Santa Monica 10 Freeway in Boyle Heights.

A Los Angeles police officer who was seen on cellphone video repeatedly striking a trespassing suspect in late April in Boyle Heights was ordered Wednesday to stand trial on a felony charge of assault under color of authority. Following a preliminary hearing, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alison Estrada ruled there was sufficient evidence for the case against Frank Hernandez…

Aarón Moreno is an eight-year-old boy who a few months ago started his own business selling plants in Boyle Heights to help his mother pay bills, and to be able to bring his sister back from Mexico.

A Texas man who allegedly killed a 17-year-old Boyle Heights girl in 1996 was in custody Wednesday after DNA evidence connected him to the crime, authorities said.