Community members are rallying around a young Southern California lifeguard who suffered a serious spinal cord injury while on duty. Isaiah Osorio, 20, is an Orange County native and All-Star athlete who also works as a Junior Lifeguard instructor in Seal Beach.

Alvin Marbra is charged with multiple sexual assaults and a hate crime in California, with DA Hochman highlighting the case's seriousness. If convicted, Marbra faces a lengthy prison sentence and must register as a sex offender.

Longtime LAist correspondent, Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, has reported on local stories for decades, traveling and meeting people throughout the region. He says L.A. is made up of history, the elements, construction and pain. That’s the ink used in this new collection of poetry and prose, California Southern: writing from the road, 1992-2025.

A man is facing life in prison after being convicted of second-degree murder in connection with a DUI crash that killed a woman as she was helping at the scene of an earlier collision in Oxnard.