Pursuit With Stolen Car Ends In With Crash On 405 Freeway In Van Nuys
The condition of the driver after the crash was not confirmed.
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The condition of the driver after the crash was not confirmed.
Two Southern California residents, unknown to each other until a scary event, are alive and able to tell the tale after someone fired shots at their vehicles while they were driving on the freeway.
All lanes of the southbound 405 Freeway were temporarily blocked Tuesday in the Sepulveda Pass following a two-vehicle collision.
Fire crews were battling a large structure fire in Van Nuys on Friday night.
The fire first started as a two-acre grass fire at about 12:10 p.m., but is now threatening to move into heavy brush.
The California Department of Transportation, which removed the unauthorized sign, said it was taken down because it was a distraction and a safety hazard.
The letters went up sometime overnight between Monday night and Tuesday morning on a hillside along the southbound 405 Freeway in the Sepulveda Pass.
The driver eventually got out of the vehicle and ran in the opposite direction on the highway, taking off after a vehicle that the individual side-swiped moments earlier.
All lanes of the southbound 405 were blocked at El Segundo Boulevard in Hawthorne due to a brush fire, CHP reports.
The 405 and 110 Freeway connector will be closed for 60 hours this weekend as part of a widening project, Caltrans announced.
No homes were threatened and no evacuations had been issued.
Police responded to the crash around 7 p.m., which involved a motorcyclist who died on scene. Information on the victim has not been released.
A Sigalert was issued for the northbound 710, just south of the 405 Freeway, at about 1:15 a.m. on Friday. The transition road from the 405 Freeway to the southbound 710 Freeway were also shut down.
A hazardous materials spill closed all lanes of the San Diego 405 Freeway in both directions at Inglewood Avenue in Redondo Beach Thursday
The crash happened at 9:40 p.m. near the Rosecrans Avenue exit. All northbound lanes of the freeway at Inglewood Avenue were shut down and traffic was diverted off the freeway.
Several lanes were closed at Sepulveda while crews put out a truck fire.
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Thursday approved $27 million in funding for a study towards adding toll lanes on one of the busiest freeways in the nation – the 405 Freeway in West Los Angeles.
Metro is in the early stages of a plan to create 405 Freeway "fast lanes" that would give drivers willing to pay up a lane of their own.
The California Highway Patrol is investigating a reported shooting on the 405 Freeway at Century Boulevard.
The two closures in the 5 Freeway bottleneck into Sylmar caused several miles of backup into Santa Clarita.
The discovery put a halt to construction, Carpenter said. Officials suspect the bones are human and of Native American descent, and are consulting with an archeologist and the county coroner.
The Sigalert was canceled just before 11 a.m. and all lanes were reopened.
Authorities say the driver of a Toyota Prius was cut off by a big rig and slammed into the back of the CHP vehicle, which had two officers inside. The officers were parked in lanes closed for Caltrans work at the time of the crash.
A California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer was taken to a local hospital in unknown condition following an accident on the southbound 405 Freeway at Lakewood Boulevard in Long Beach.
P-61's successful crossing is in the same general vicinity where another mountain lion, P-18, was struck and killed by a car in 2011 and an uncollared lion suffered the same fate in 2009.
The Inland Empire is an area of Southern California that has seen a lot of change, including the announcement of the upcoming closure of the Southwest Healthcare Corona Regional Medical Center's labor and delivery ward.
Black granite walls engraved with over 150,000 names of interned Japanese Americans will comprise the WWII Camp Wall at Columbia Park, the nation's first such memorial.
Video released by the LAPD shows a vehicle hitting a woman, knocking her to the ground, before another vehicle runs her over.
The operation was one of several that resulted in the Coast Guard seizing more than 100,000 pounds of cocaine from ships in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
Even though the storm has mainly cleared the region, weather officials said lingering showers should not be ruled out.
The Inland Empire is an area of Southern California that has seen a lot of change, including the announcement of the upcoming closure of the Southwest Healthcare Corona Regional Medical Center's labor and delivery ward.
Black granite walls engraved with over 150,000 names of interned Japanese Americans will comprise the WWII Camp Wall at Columbia Park, the nation's first such memorial.
Video released by the LAPD shows a vehicle hitting a woman, knocking her to the ground, before another vehicle runs her over.
The operation was one of several that resulted in the Coast Guard seizing more than 100,000 pounds of cocaine from ships in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
Even though the storm has mainly cleared the region, weather officials said lingering showers should not be ruled out.
The Inland Empire is an area of Southern California that has seen a lot of change, including the announcement of the upcoming closure of the Southwest Healthcare Corona Regional Medical Center's labor and delivery ward.
Black granite walls engraved with over 150,000 names of interned Japanese Americans will comprise the WWII Camp Wall at Columbia Park, the nation's first such memorial.
Even though the storm has mainly cleared the region, weather officials said lingering showers should not be ruled out.
The emergency proclamation will allow the Board of Supervisors to enact an eviction moratorium and other protections for people impacted by the immigration operations.
Using a ladder and a rescue swimmer, VCFD pulled the "shivering but otherwise unharmed dog out of the wash."
The residents said the debris came from a nearby homeless encampment that had previously blocked the drain.
Orange County firefighters said they couldn't recover the remains due to weather conditions and rising water levels.
An incoming storm, powered by the lingering bits of Tropical Storm Priscilla in the Pacific Ocean, could bring heavy rain and flooding to parts of Southern California to start the week.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
It happened Friday night near Santiago Peak, according to Riverside County deputies.
San Bernardino police recovered two guns and a crossbow from the driver after he allegedly threatened a tow yard worker.
A New York man was arrested in Southern California over the weekend for allegedly kidnapping a North Carolina woman and bringing her on a cross-country crime spree, authorities said on Monday.
One person died following a shooting at a Jack in the Box drive-thru in Hemet.
An incoming storm, powered by the lingering bits of Tropical Storm Priscilla in the Pacific Ocean, could bring heavy rain and flooding to parts of Southern California to start the week.
Naythan Vasquez, 16, was fatally shot on May 9, 2025. Since then, investigators have been unable to identify and arrest his killer.
The operation was one of several that resulted in the Coast Guard seizing more than 100,000 pounds of cocaine from ships in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
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Blake Snell allowed one baserunner in eight shutout innings before Los Angeles' bullpen barely held on in the ninth as the Dodgers opened the National League Championship Series with a 2-1 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers.
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Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente nurses and health care workers across California are hitting the picket line Tuesday, as a five-day strike begins.
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a series of bills aimed at expanding access to reproductive health care and strengthening privacy protections for patients and providers in California.
LA County Department of Public Health officials said that four cases were reported between late July and August, and that the patients lived in central Los Angeles and the Antelope and San Fernando valleys.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended firing the director of the CDC at a hearing before a Senate committee on Thursday.
Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente nurses and health care workers across California are hitting the picket line Tuesday, as a five-day strike begins.
A charity that accepted donations of vehicles that would pay for breast cancer screenings for low-income patients agreed Thursday to pay a $3.8 million fine and to restrictions on future fundraising activities in 19 U.S. states, including Colorado.
A bill that would reverse a 25% tax increase on California's legal cannabis industry is heading to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk, after being approved by the legislature.
Target CEO Brian Cornell, who helped reenergize the company but has struggled to turn around weak sales in a more competitive retail landscape since the COVID pandemic, plans to step down Feb. 1.
Drivers of electric vehicles across California will soon lose privileges to drive in the carpool lane solo, as the Clean Air Vehicle decal program is set to end next month.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched a three-hitter for the first postseason complete game in eight years as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Brewers 5-1 to take a commanding lead in the National League Championship Series.
Marco Rossi scored the fourth round of the shootout and the Minnesota Wild beat the Los Angeles Kings 4-3 after blowing a three-goal lead in the third period.
Blake Snell allowed one baserunner in eight shutout innings before Los Angeles' bullpen barely held on in the ninth as the Dodgers opened the National League Championship Series with a 2-1 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers.
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D'Angelo's family said he died Tuesday after a "prolonged and courageous battle with cancer."
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The WWII Camp Wall memorial is set to list more than 120,000 names of Japanese Americans sent to internment camps.
Phiip Sokoloski, vice president of communications at FilmLA, talks about production in Los Angeles and the state.
Temperatures will continue to be below average as the rest of the rainstorm moves out of the region. Conditions will dry out by Wednesday afternoon.
A New York man was arrested in Southern California over the weekend for allegedly kidnapping a North Carolina woman and bringing her on a cross-country crime spree, officials said on Monday.
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