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Violent crime in Los Angeles increased by nearly 16 percent during the first half of this year compared with the same period a year ago, authorities said Friday.

A stretch of coastline in Seal Beach was reopened to swimmers and surfers Thursday following a roughly three-day closure due to a sewage spill near downtown Los Angeles, but all coastal beaches in Long Beach remained closed.

A bedridden 98-year-old woman was critically injured in a house fire in Buena Park Friday triggered by a cooking accident, authorities said.

Los Angeles County health officials will join with the Los Angeles LGBT Center Thursday to urge gay and bisexual men to be vaccinated against meningitis, local cases of which have spiked in recent months.

A record 1.207 million people are expected to pass through Los Angeles International Airport over the Fourth of July weekend, with Friday likely to be the busiest day of the five-day travel period, with nearly 265,000 travelers.

Former Los Angeles County Undersheriff Paul Tanaka was sentenced Monday to five years in federal prison for his role in a wide-ranging 2011 conspiracy to derail a federal investigation of misconduct in jails.

About 1,250 firefighters continued their efforts to extinguish the 5,235-acre San Gabriel Complex Fire, which was 30 percent contained, but all evacuations were being lifted Friday.

President Barack Obama announced Monday that Los Angeles will become the headquarters for a federally funded institute devoted to developing sensors that make manufacturing more efficient.

The latest installment of L.A.’s sporadic break with the automobile returns Sunday to take over the streets of Southeast Los Angeles.

A woman is suing the Getty Foundation, alleging she was denied an undergraduate internship with the institution because she is white.

Racially-insensitive email jokes have cost a high-ranking Los Angeles County sheriff’s official his job, as Tom Angel resigned from his position as the department’s chief of staff Sunday.

The driver of a school bus on which an autistic 19-year-old was left alone last September pleaded not guilty Monday to a felony charge of dependent adult abuse resulting in the young man’s death.

City Attorney Mike Feuer announced Thursday Good Samaritan Hospital will pay $450,000 to settle allegations the hospital improperly discharged a homeless patient in Echo Park.