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Cold, howling winds raked Southern California overnight, wreaking havoc on freeways and bringing down a large tree in Panorama City onto two parked vehicles.

There was a deadly police shooting in Hollywood after a man charged at officers with a machete. Four people are facing charges in connections with a lotto scam. A $75 thousand reward is being offered for information on an unsolved murder.

A 13-year-old boy is in custody for allegedly threatening to shoot up a Willowbrook school. Three people are dead after a car slammed into a tree and burst into flames. The LAPD has released new video of white Tesla they say hit a pedestrian and then took off.

Five people injured, two critically, in a two-vehicle crash in Koreatown Friday morning.

Passengers aboard Philippine Airlines flight 113 got a scare this afternoon when the jetliner was forced to return to LAXdue to engine trouble. The weapon used in the Saugus High School shooting was a so-called "ghost gun."

A 16-year-old student who opened fire on his classmates last week at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita – killing two of them before turning the gun on himself -- used an unregistered “kit gun,” authorities disclosed Thursday.

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Evacuations were ordered at the Santa Monica Pier and on the city’s beaches Wednesday after lightning strikes were reported as the first storm of the season rolled through the region. Rain will be on and off throughout the day in the Southland. A high of 65 for the beaches and 64 for the valleys.