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Venice Beach property owners have begun paying a private security firm staffed by former gang members to clear homeless encampments from their streets. Rick Swinger, a Venice apartment owner, is among roughly 250 locals and businesses who now pay monthly…
Hayden Panettiere’s representative confirmed her death in a statement Sunday. Panettiere, 36, died, her representative said on Sunday. No cause of death or details about the circumstances were immediately provided. “It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic…
Kyle Chandler’s Hal Jordan was seemingly killed off in the “Lanterns” series premiere, but the show’s dual-timeline structure leaves his future an open question. The HBO superhero drama, which debuted Sunday, stars Chandler, 59, as veteran Green Lantern Hal Jordan…
A German historian has used artificial intelligence to identify a notorious Nazi executioner in a World War II photograph more than 80 years after it was taken. Jürgen Matthäus, a historian specializing in Holocaust research, made the breakthrough after a…
Matthew McConaughey, 55, revealed in his new poetry collection that he quit smoking marijuana after getting so stoned he played Janet Jackson’s “That’s the Way Love Goes” on repeat and missed his own birthday party. The Oscar winner details the…
Tommy John, the pioneering pitcher whose name became synonymous with career-saving elbow surgery, has died at 83. The left-hander passed away in hospice care at his home in Bradenton, Florida, after a career that spanned 26 major league seasons and…
A fast-moving brush fire erupted Sunday afternoon in San Diego’s Penasquitos Creek area, prompting mandatory evacuations as flames swelled to 131 acres with zero containment. The blaze broke out around 1:30 p.m. East of Interstate 15, with firefighters staging near…
A Florida man accused of flinging dog feces at his neighbor and threatening him with a child’s scooter has been released on bond. Trey Decloedt, 35, was arrested by Lake County sheriff’s deputies on Aug. 8 following the revolting confrontation…
Iranian Army Commander-in-Chief Amir Hatami announced a $30,000 bounty for killing or capturing US soldiers, with double pay for women. Hatami, speaking at a National Journalists’ Day ceremony in Tehran on Sunday, said the reward would be funded through public…
A judge ordered Cesar Mora to destroy his nectarine trees after his two-week trial with Giumarra Brothers Fruit Company ended in another loss for the Reedley farmer. Watch on TikTok Fresno County Superior Court Judge Jon Skiles issued the oral…
Johnny Depp is in active talks to return as Captain Jack Sparrow in “Pirates of the Caribbean 6,” producer Jerry Bruckheimer has confirmed. “We’re talking with Johnny, we’re working on a screenplay, and hopefully we can get this done,” Bruckheimer,…
Horror legend Tom Savini says he is “devastated” after fire tore through his childhood home in Pittsburgh. The “Dawn of the Dead” star, 79, and his wife Jodii escaped unharmed from the blaze at their Bloomfield residence on Friday, Aug.…
An NYPD officer shot and critically wounded a knife-wielding man who charged at police during a domestic dispute call on the Lower East Side. Officers responded to a home at 126 Ludlow St. In Manhattan around 4 p.m. Sunday after…
The Mayor’s office and NYCHA have condemned a wave of bigoted flyers targeting a Manhattan housing redevelopment. The posters, which have appeared near the Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses in Chelsea, attack the public-private partnership between the New York City Housing…
Mathata “Moe” Mpela is being sued for nearly $1 million in unpaid wages after allegedly recruiting college students for a green-energy apprenticeship that never paid them. The Brooklyn-based founder of Nalane Green Solutions, Mpela hired more than 20 students from…
Rep. Nancy Mace, 47, debuted her tattooed arms on her new YouTube show “Get Maced” over the weekend, going sleeveless in public for the first time in months. The outgoing South Carolina Republican revealed nine tattoos she had kept covered…