Long Beach family pleads for help saving their father from a rare heart condition
Rhett Pascual is in desperate need of a heart transplant, but now he's too sick to qualify after waiting weeks for his insurance to approve the life-saving surgery.
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Hunter Sowards has spent nearly a decade reporting in California. She moved from her home state of Texas to San Diego, where she worked as an evening news anchor at KUSI-TV. She joined the CBS family in the summer of 2023, working as an anchor and reporter at KOVR-TV in Sacramento. When the wildfires hit in January of 2025, she traveled from Northern California to help CBS LA and joined the team soon after.
Hunter's passion for community-driven journalism has earned her numerous awards, including multiple first-place honors from the San Diego Press Club, four Emmy nominations, and being named the 2023 San Diego Union-Tribune Readers Poll for "Best Local News Anchor" and "Best Television Personality."
In her free time, Hunter is all about family. Despite being 1,700 miles away from home, she never misses a chance to FaceTime or take a quick trip to East Texas. She's also an avid reader and eater -- ALWAYS looking for a good book or food recommendation.
Rhett Pascual is in desperate need of a heart transplant, but now he's too sick to qualify after waiting weeks for his insurance to approve the life-saving surgery.
While receiving state-of-the-art care in Northern California, the injured mountain lion cub found on a Castaic street has made a new friend, a fellow orphaned cub from the Central Coast.
A woman who was protesting against immigration operations outside of the federal detention center in downtown Los Angeles on Friday night was struck by a car leaving the compound. Video of the incident, which appears to show the woman stepping in front of the vehicle, but she insists that wasn't the case.
A homicide investigation is underway in Hermosa Beach after a man's body was found inside a beachfront home and a suspect was arrested following a seven-hour-long standoff late Saturday.
René Redzepi, the head chef of one of the highest-rated restaurants in the world, has resigned from Noma amid abuse allegations and protests outside his L.A. pop-up location.
Protesters plan to demonstrate outside Noma's Los Angeles pop-up location after abuse allegations
A group of residents who lost everything in the Palisades Fire is fighting to keep their land from being sold to a luxury developer.
A jarring video shows the moments that a man attempts to carjack a vehicle from a woman pumping gas at a Lakewood Chevron station while her baby was still inside in early February.
A 29-year-old man was charged with murder after he allegedly shot and killed a Caltech scientist in front of a Los Angeles County home.
The hit-and-run driver who killed 21-year-old Benjamin Montalvo was released from prison less than three years into her nine-year sentence on Saturday.
A mountain lion that was found injured on a Castaic road in January is now being rehabilitated in Northern California after wildlife officials were unable to reunite it with its mother.
An injured mountain lion cub was rescued from a Castaic neighborhood on Wednesday, hours after it was spotted lying in the road by neighbors who think it might have been hit by a car.
The suspects barricaded themselves inside the handbag store after Irvine police quickly surrounded them.
The DMV and the California Highway Patrol launched a pilot program targeting drivers who exceed 100 mph.
Heather Lyle thought her second home burning down during the Palisades Fire was devastating enough, until she was diagnosed with cancer for a third time.