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“It brings me great joy to be a part of something of this magnitude to help the city of Los Angeles,” he says. Hetty Chang reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. Mar. 26, 2020.

A 58-year-old registered nurse accused of helping a heartbroken man end his life pleaded not guilty Monday to a murder charge.

Sybil Peacock Harmon, one of Delta Air Lines’ very first flight attendants who later served in the military during World War II, has died. She was 103 years old. “We’re saddened to learn of Sybil Peacock Harmon’s passing,” Allison Ausband, senior vice president of in-flight service, told TODAY in an emailed statement. “Sybil was a beloved member of the Delta...

Heather Waldron and John Hawley are losing their four-bedroom house in the hills above Blacksburg, Va. A teenage daughter, one of their five children, sold her clothes for spending money. They worried about paying the electric bill. Financial disaster, they say, contributed to their divorce, finalized in April. Their money problems began when the University of Virginia Health System pursued...

Amid controversy over whether he cheated for faster times in marathons, longtime runner and semiretired physician Frank Meza was found dead Thursday of an apparent suicide. His family sees him as the victim of unjust “public shaming” that “hurt him so much. And hurt us so much.”

Read the headlines on any given day across America and you’ll find evidence of a crisis roiling the criminal justice system: “Suicide leading cause of death in Utah jails.” ”San Diego County inmate suicide rate ‘staggeringly’ high.” ”Attempted suicides at Cuyahoga County Jail tripled over three-year span.” Stories like Tanna Jo Fillmore’s have been told time and again, and yet...

The world’s smallest surviving baby has been born in San Diego.

A Lennox man was sentenced Monday to 26 years to life in prison for murdering his former nursing instructor, who had appeared as a contestant on a television reality show.

There’s a baby boom happening at a Maine hospital but it’s the nurses who are expecting. Nine nurses who all work in labor and delivery are pregnant at Maine Medical Center in Portland and are due between April and July. Eight of the pregnant nurses recently posed for a picture which was posted on the facility’s Facebook page. They held...

The group of white-haired folks — some pushing walkers, others using canes — arrive right on time at the gates of Laguna Woods Village, an upscale retirement community in the picturesque hills that frame this Southern California suburb a few miles from Disneyland.

A San Diego-based organization with a lifesaving mission is celebrating a major milestone. EP Save A Life has now screened more than 30,000 young adults for potentially life-threatening heart conditions. The organization was founded a decade ago by a mother whose 15-year-old son died unexpectedly from sudden cardiac arrest. Her resolve to channel her despair into an opportunity to help...

A recent bull riding event at Staples Center that sparked protests led the Board of Animal Services Commissioners Tuesday to unanimously approve a motion in support of banning such events in Los Angeles.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom delivered his first State of the State address Tuesday, a day after declaring he wouldn’t participate in the Trump administration’s “political theater” over border security.

A woman who says she rose from the rank of housekeeper to registered nurse during more than three decades of service at Huntington Memorial Hospital is suing the Pasadena medical center, alleging she was discriminated against because she is a Latina and was fired earlier this year on false claims of unprofessional conduct.

For Evelyn Calip, a registered nurse, breast cancer has turned into the best thing that could have ever happened to her because she has been able to meet and help other people.

When Polly Varnado’s 9-year-old daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, it didn’t take long for the family to hear about insulin pumps. In September 2012, the girl picked out a purple one — her favorite color. Over the next seven months, she proceeded to be hospitalized four times in a McComb, Mississippi medical center with high blood sugar. But...

A Jewish nurse who treated the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect says that he saw confusion but not evil in the man’s eyes, and that his own actions stemmed from love. “I’m sure he had no idea I was Jewish,” registered nurse Ari Mahler wrote in a Facebook post Saturday about the shooting suspect, who was taken to Allegheny General Hospital...

A Lennox man who bashed his nursing instructor’s skull in with a hammer in 2016 was convicted of first-degree murder Monday.

A Lennox man who bashed his nursing instructor’s skull with a hammer in 2016 snapped and killed her in the heat of passion, his attorney told jurors Monday, but a prosecutor called it a premeditated murder.

The owner of a Los Angeles skin care clinic is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday on charges that she illegally impersonated a nurse, practiced nursing without a license and used a falsified state license.