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The girl had accused the district in a lawsuit of failing to adequately supervise her 8th grade math teacher, Elkis Hermida. She appealed after a jury found the district was not negligent.
Los Angeles child welfare authorities say they are investigating any and all past contact workers may have had with a father accused of stabbing his three sons to death.
The father, said to be in his 30s, was found in his car bleeding from stab wounds to the chest, his dead sons in the back and a knife in the passenger seat. The boys, ages 8 to 12, were pronounced dead at the gruesome scene.
Three children have been found dead inside a car parked outside an elementary school in South Los Angeles, while a man found with them is in critical condition.
A blue whale trailing line and a red buoy was seen around 10:30 a.m. about 18 miles southwest of the Coronado Islands, according to Jim Milbury, a spokesman for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Authorities say a father and his young daughter were killed when their family SUV collided with a delivery truck on a busy Los Angeles freeway.
The dogs were all found in Lancaster and none had tags or microchips for identification, said Schulman, who was treating one of the survivors, named Fergus by caretakers.
Police have arrested the mother of a newborn baby that was abandoned in a stroller on a Los Angeles street.
Los Angeles Police Department officers pulled an unconscious man from a car that went up in flames after a collision.
Homeless people who've been ticketed for panhandling and other minor crimes in the Los Angeles area can have their records wiped clean if they accept help to get back on their feet.
A second day of showers and thunderstorms in southern and central California was expected to bring heavy rain and set more rainfall records in what is usually a dry month.
A 21-year-old man accidentally drowned in the backyard pool of a Los Angeles home owned by actress Demi Moore on Sunday morning, coroner's officials said.
Los Angeles police say a man is expected to survive after being pulled off his bicycle and attacked by a suspect wielding a machete and three others.
From drought-shaming to eco-boasting, willing or not, celebrities are playing a role in raising awareness about California's debilitating drought.
A Los Angeles firefighter has been convicted of assaulting a woman who fed cats in his neighborhood.
Homicide detectives are investigating after the body of a man was found burning on a South Los Angeles sidewalk.
Comprised mostly of low-income students, King Drew Magnet High School has excelled at preparing students for higher education.
Bumble Bee Foods and two managers were charged by Los Angeles prosecutors Monday with violating safety regulations in the death of a worker who was cooked in an industrial oven with tons of tuna.
The firebombing of a Southern California tire shop left three people dead and a firefighter injured on Saturday, authorities said.
Whoever snatched a seal or sea lion pup from a Los Angeles beach early Sunday should not be fooled by the animal's cuteness - they could suffer a vicious bite, an animal rescue expert said.
Organizers behind a proposed stadium near Los Angeles that could become home for the NFL's San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders announced Saturday they reached an important, early benchmark on the path to construction.
In all, 38 LAPD employees worked about 320 hours to prepare for the January event at a downtown building and protect Rene "Boxer" Enriquez while he was there, the inspector general of the city's police commission wrote.
He and a 31-year-old female passenger were arrested Saturday night after an X-ray machine alerted border inspectors to a man hiding in the spare tire area of a Nissan Juke.
