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An ABC News graphic shows the fire forecast in Southern California on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. Via ABC News. (LOS ANGELES) -- The winds fueling fires in Southern California are beginning to relax, but the forecast calls for their return next week.Offshore Santa Ana winds will continue to diminish for the majority of Southern California on Thursday.However, a red flag warning continues for the San Gabriel and Santa Susana mountains […]

Police are hunting for a suspect who was allegedly caught on camera violently robbing an 83-year-old woman of her lottery winnings shortly after claiming them from a convenience store, police said. Via Facebook / Orange County Sheriff's Office (ORLANDO, Fla.) -- Police are hunting for a suspect who was allegedly caught on camera violently robbing an 83-year-old woman of her lottery winnings shortly after claiming them from a convenience store, […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- Los Angeles County has been devastated by two deadly wildfires that have become some of the most destructive in California history.The Palisades and Eaton fires both erupted on Jan. 7, fueled by severe drought conditions and strong Santa Ana winds.Dozens of people are believed to have died in the fires, which have burned down whole swaths of communities, including in the Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Altadena and Pasadena. […]

(LOS ANGELES, Calif.) -- The destruction caused by the Eaton Fire in Los Angeles County, which has destroyed more than 14,117 acres across the region in the last week, is threatening Altadena’s rich and diverse history that captures the plight, success and perseverance of the local communities of color.The Tongva Taraxat Paxaavxa Conservancy, a nonprofit founded by Indigenous groups who have called the now-greater Los Angeles basin their home for thousands of […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- At least 25 people have died as multiple wildfires, fueled by severe drought conditions and strong winds, rage across the Los Angeles area.Thousands of firefighters are battling wildfires across 45 square miles of densely populated Los Angeles County. About 88,000 people remain under mandatory evacuation orders and another 84,000 are under evacuation warnings.Status of Palisades, Eaton firesThe Palisades Fire, which began in the Pacific Palisades on Jan. […]

Andrew Woodley/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (MEMPHIS, Tenn.) -- Lisa Findley, the Missouri woman accused of attempting to illegally put Elvis Presley’s Graceland estate up for auction, could face a federal criminal trial in Tennessee in three months.During a hearing in federal court in Memphis Wednesday morning that lasted less than 15 minutes, Senior District Judge John T. Fowlkes Jr. scheduled a trial for Wednesday, April 16, at 9:30 […]

(NEW YORK) -- The Mexican drug lord who founded the Sinaloa cartel with Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is in plea talks with federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York, to resolve his case before a trial that could yield the death penalty, an assistant United States attorney said during a hearing Wednesday.Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, 76, has pleaded not guilty to a slew of federal drug and weapons charges. He had […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- A group of Pacific Palisades residents and businesses impacted by the Palisades Fire filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles against the city's Department of Water and Power, alleging that the city and the agency were unprepared for the Palisades Fire.The suit was filed in the California Superior Court on Monday and seeks damages for the costs, repair and replacement of damaged or destroyed property; cost for alternative living expenses; […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The Department of Justice is continuing its push to release the remaining volume of special counsel Jack Smith's final report to select members of Congress.In an overnight court filing, Justice Department attorneys pushed back on Trump's former co-defendants in his classified documents case, saying their argument seeking to block the release of that portion of Smith's report "rests entirely on conjecture."Last week, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon -- who last year […]