Demi Weitz, who helped turn pandemic Zoom parties into big fundraisers, says she’s launching On Octave — a music app that links fan experiences to charity after a viral kidney fundraiser.

A street takeover crowd rushed into a DTLA luxury building lobby early Sunday, smashing glass and scuffling with staff, video and police accounts show.

Emergency crews surrounded a Central-Alameda Metro station after a person threatened to jump. LAFD staged rescue cushions and LAPD responded.

A Mexico City investor paid about $11.35 million for the Smart & Final at 3111 E. Florence Ave. in Huntington Park in a deal brokered by SRS Real Estate Partners.

Rachel Zoe’s Bel Air home was burglarized while she was in Las Vegas; police arrested a suspect and investigators are checking for links to other Bel Air break‑ins.

Pasadena police arrested a 31-year-old man after finding a stolen car and two firearms on East Colorado Boulevard. Officers recovered a loaded Glock 45 and an unloaded AK-47.

A former Carson council aide says he was fired after refusing to run personal errands and to monitor colleagues; city attorneys say the dismissal was performance-based. The dispute is now in court.

A brief I-10 pursuit ended in Alhambra when police arrested a driver and found meth and a switchblade.

At a first Assembly hearing at LA84, lawmakers leaned on the 1984 Olympics to press LA28 for promises on youth programs, small-business gains and debt protections.

Gusty Santa Ana winds arrive this weekend with mountain gusts up to 60–65 mph and inland highs into the 80s.

LAFD says crews knocked down a Westlake structure fire at 150 S Mountain View Ave early Friday. The department’s alert named FS20 among responders and included a map.

LAPD detained two people at Anatola Avenue Elementary in Van Nuys after a man was seen cutting copper pipes on the playground; one suspect hid in a trash can.

A View Park father pleaded no contest and was sentenced after his daughter Maeve died last September; the county coroner ruled the death a hyperthermia. Court records also include treatment and visitation conditions.