MIAMI — After nearly two decades, the Justice Department on Friday finally released a small a portion of its voluminous criminal case files on the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

The DOJ, under pressure to comply with a law passed by Congress last month, released tens of thousands of pages by Saturday morning. The materials had been long...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Shootings by Los Angeles police officers have increased dramatically this year, prompting Mayor Karen Bass to issue a statement Friday that said she is "deeply concerned" and seeking an explanation.

LAPD officers have fired their weapons in 46 incidents so far this year — killing 14 people and wounding 23 others — a roughly ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It didn’t take long for police to focus on Nick Reiner after his parents were found fatally stabbed in the master bedroom of their Brentwood home Sunday afternoon.

The challenge became finding him.

Reiner lived in Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner’s guesthouse but was not there when police arrived around 3:30 p.m. ...Read more

The U.S. offered to hold talks together with Ukrainian and Russian representatives in Florida as Donald Trump’s administration pushes for a peace deal, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Whether the trilateral talks will take place depends on the U.S.-Ukrainian negotiations that started Friday, Zelenskyy told journalists in Kyiv ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — One fire appears to have been caused by a spark from old power lines, the other allegedly started by an Uber driver with a fascination with flames.

In the end, the Eaton and Palisades fires destroyed more than 16,000 homes, businesses and other structures and left 31 people dead. They were the second and third most destructive ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Shortly after his childhood home burned down in west Altadena, Zaire Calvin learned his mom's insurance carrier had dropped her months before. He handled her bills but said he hadn't received any email or notice from Allstate before the January wildfire.

For weeks, he tried to get answers, waiting on returned calls, asking for ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — During the first days of the January firestorms, Los Angeles became a case study in what can go wrong with emergency alerts and evacuations.

In Pacific Palisades there was chaos Jan. 7 as people in the foothills tried to flee, only to hit traffic gridlock. Then when the Eaton fire erupted in Altadena, evacuation orders did not ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Kiley Hoiles doesn't want to keep talking about the Palisades fire.

She is 15. And it's been nearly a year since the blaze incinerated her family's cozy little house on Edgar Street in Pacific Palisades. And her entire neighborhood. And her old elementary school, Marquez Charter. And the dojo where she trained three times a week...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Via de Las Olas was once a scenic drive in Pacific Palisades, perched above Will Rogers State Beach, offering sweeping views of ocean and sky. Now it resembles an archaeological site of its former self.

"There were beautiful homes here, people would walk with their dogs in the morning when I would get here," said Amalia Atayde, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As the flames of the Palisades fire licked at his home, Ricardo Kawamura stood in his front yard watching smoke pour out of a second-story window. He saw a fire engine parked next to a hydrant on his street, and called for help.

“They told me they did not have enough water,” Kawamura said. “And unfortunately, there was ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Rashi Kaslow sat on the deck of a boat he bought from a friend for just $1 before the fire. After the blaze destroyed his uninsured home in the Palisades Bowl mobile home park — which the owners, to this day, still have not cleared of fire debris— the boat docked in Marina del Rey became his home.

“You either rise from the...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Southern California Edison did not spend hundreds of millions of dollars on maintenance of its aging transmission lines that it told regulators was necessary and began billing to customers in the four years before the Jan. 7 wildfires, according to a Times review of regulatory filings.

Edison told state regulators in its 2023 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As the Palisades fire raged, then-Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristin Crowley went on a television blitz, calling out city leadership for systematically underfunding her agency.

The LAFD, she said, didn’t have enough firefighters, based at enough fire stations, to quench the wind-driven flames that were tearing through ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The setting looked almost cozy: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and a podcast host seated inside her home in two comfy chairs, talking about President Trump, ICE raids, public schools and the Palisades fire.

The recording session inside the library at Getty House, the official mayor's residence, lasted an hour. Once it ended, the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It was supposed to be a speech with a clear message of hope for survivors of the Palisades fire.

In her State of the City address in April, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass called for a law exempting fire victims from construction permit fees — potentially saving them tens of thousands of dollars as they rebuild their homes.

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Over a roughly three-year period beginning in March 2020, 1,564 Alaskans died from COVID-19.

That's according to a new report from the Alaska Department of Health, which provides a detailed review of data on how the state fared dealing with the coronavirus between March 2020 and the end of the the federal public health ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Jeffrey Rosenberg is still trying to understand why President Donald Trump would free the man who defrauded him out of a quarter of a million dollars.

Rosenberg, a retired wholesale produce distributor living in Nevada, has supported Trump since he entered politics, but the president's decision in November to commute the sentence...Read more