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A fast-moving brush fire fanned by strong winds erupted in the hills above the 405 Freeway early Monday, burning homes and forcing evacuations in neighborhoods on Los Angeles’ Westside.

Helen Hunt was involved in a car accident on Wednesday. A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department told People the incident occurred in Los Angeles’ Mid-City area on the corner of San Vicente and Tremaine Avenue.

Mystery surrounds the disappearance of a Southern California couple who vanished along with three young children in what the Los Angeles Police Department called a possible kidnapping case.

A homeless woman, whose video showcasing her singing ability at a Los Angeles Metro station recently went viral, performed for a live audience Saturday, hoping to raise awareness of the homelessness crisis.

The LAPD held its annual suicide awareness walk to bring attention to officer suicide. Lolita Lopez reports for the NBC4 News at 5:45 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 27, 2019. See the full NBCLA and LAPPL behavioral health survey here.

A heavenly voice launched a search for the story behind it, after the Los Angeles Police Department posted a video of a mystery singer at an LA Metro station with the caption, “4 million people call LA home. 4 million stories. 4 million voices…sometimes you just have to stop and listen to one, to hear something beautiful.”

The Los Angeles Police Department announced Saturday it has stopped purchasing online advertising from Google after a recruitment ad appeared on a website that has drawn criticism for its content.

Police are looking for the visitor to an open house in Encino who was caught on camera abruptly pushing the real estate agent to the ground, and then bending over her as she screamed.

A thief broke into the garage of a Ladera Heights apartment Thursday and stole a bicycle belonging to a man with quadriplegia.

A reportedly intoxicated transient walking in the street in East Hollywood jumped off a 101 Freeway overpass and died while being chased by officers, Los Angeles police said.

In a tearful news conference, the Riverside couple wounded when an off-duty Los Angeles police officer fatally shot their developmentally disabled son during what the lawman contends was an act of self-defense at a Costco in Corona decried the shooting Monday and said they presented no danger to the officer.

A group of LGBT people are alleging that they were kicked out of a popular downtown Los Angeles bar Friday night after being subjected to transphobic slurs.

Police Tuesday asked for the public’s help identifying a man who asked for a job at a Watts business then shot the owner when he was told there was no hiring.

A missing 13-year-old boy led police on a pursuit that featured multiple hit-and-run crashes in the San Fernando Valley Saturday, and the boy’s parents say the teenager has autism and is deaf.

A YouTube personality with more than 300,000 subscribers was facing strong backlash and was the center of a Los Angeles Police Department investigation Wednesday after apparently accidentally uploading a video that showed her allegedly abusing her dog.

A suspected stolen vehicle police pursuit in Playa Del Rey Saturday featured a man driving on the beach and jumping in the water before being arrested, authorities said.

Dozens of Los Angeles Police Department officers and detectives mobilized across Los Angeles and Riverside counties early Friday to carry out raids that resulted in the arrests of three suspects in last weekend’s fatal shooting of an off-duty LAPD officer, law enforcement sources told NBCLA.

A Los Angeles Police Department officer charged with rape after a department investigation linked him to a sexual assault three years earlier pleaded not guilty Thursday.

An young boy who was shot in Watts Wednesday is in stable condition, the Los Angeles Police Department said.

Citing a gruesome series of killings in Los Angeles in which one victim was dismembered and whose heart was cut out, a federal grand jury has indicted 22 alleged members or associates of the notorious MS-13 gang on charges that include racketeering and murder.