LOS ANGELES — It was a building immortalized as the album art and title for the Doors' fifth album.

But on Thursday, the former Morrison Hotel — most recently slated to be used for affordable housing — went up in flames.

The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to the blaze around 11 a.m. on South Hope Street, arriving to find the four-...Read more

DETROIT — In the weeks before Rachel Timmerman’s murder in 1997, she warned police and prosecutors that Marvin Gabrion would kill her to stop the 19-year-old from testifying that she’d been raped by Gabrion.

Her mother and others in the Newaygo County community echoed the same concerns during the 1997 case. And their warnings proved ...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom held a news conference Friday to pressure Oakland officials to scale back a policy that only allows the cops to chase someone if there’s reasonable suspicion they have committed a violent crime.

Calling the city’s policy an “extreme outlier,” Newsom first announced plans to extend a “surge” in ...Read more

A person was captured attempting to sneak onto a Delta Airlines flight from Seattle to Honolulu on Christmas Eve, authorities said this week.

The unidentified stowaway made it on board Delta Flight 487 on Tuesday, but the crew was alerted to the person's presence before takeoff, ABC News reported.

Delta personnel decided to deplane the entire ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the families of three Baltimore firefighters who died in 2022 after being wounded while fighting a Stricker Street blaze.

The lawsuit, filed by the families of the deceased firefighters as well as another who survived the vacant rowhouse collapse, alleged that Baltimore officials had ...Read more

ATLANTA — The U.S. government’s premier research body has made an important discovery that could help create new drugs to lower “bad” cholesterol, and hopefully prevent heart attacks and stroke.

But the interesting part of that story isn’t just the discovery itself, but the technology responsible for it: a relatively new type of ...Read more

A clean energy watchdog group has filed a lawsuit against Georgia energy regulators and an elected member of the agency’s board for allegedly violating the state’s open records law.

The Energy and Policy Institute, a California-based nonprofit, alleges Georgia Public Service Commissioner Tricia Pridemore uses personal email accounts and her...Read more

ATLANTA — Georgia Republicans can subpoena Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis about her romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, the outside attorney she hired to lead her 2020 election interference case against former and future President Donald Trump and his allies, a judge has ruled.

The decision by Fulton County Superior Court ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Adams is cracking down on excessive overtime spending within the NYPD, the FDNY and the city Departments of Correction and Sanitation — just days after bombshell allegations surfaced that former NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey was swapping sex for overtime pay, the Daily News has learned.

In an internal directive ...Read more

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier dissolved parliament and set the country’s snap election for Feb. 23, formally endorsing a timetable proposed by Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

Scholz, of the center-left Social Democrats, ended his three-party alliance with the Greens and Free Democrats last month, when he sacked FDP Finance Minister ...Read more

NEW YORK — Sebastian Zapeta, the migrant accused of torching a homeless woman on a Brooklyn subway was indicted on first-degree murder charges Friday, officials said.

A grand jury voted for the upgraded charges, meaning that Zapeta, 33, is facing life without parole if convicted for the disturbing caught-on-camera killing as his victim slept ...Read more

South Korea’s parliament impeached Acting President Han Duck-soo, dealing another blow to a government already reeling after President Yoon Suk Yeol’s suspension less than two weeks ago for his brief martial law decree.

Lawmakers voted 192-0 in favor of Prime Minister Han’s impeachment on Friday, according to National Assembly Speaker Woo...Read more

WASHINGTON — A White House official said Friday the U.S. identified a ninth telecommunications company impacted by a wide-ranging Chinese espionage effort and that further steps are planned to curb cyberattacks from Beijing.

As the Biden administration learns about the scope and scale of the so-called Salt Typhoon breach that it attributed to...Read more

After a surprise offensive earlier this year, Ukraine’s forces have lost about half the territory seized in Russia’s Kursk region and may lose the rest in a matter of months, according to U.S. officials, potentially depriving Kyiv of important leverage for ceasefire talks with Russia.

Ukraine’s military is already grappling with a lack ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Baltimore City circuit courthouses and the District Court on East Fayette Street reopened Thursday after being treated for Legionella bacteria earlier this week.

Legionella is the bacteria which can cause Legionnaire’s disease, a severe form of pneumonia. The city recommended the courthouses close last week despite the ...Read more

Florida officials quietly ended a probe into Walt Disney World’s former Reedy Creek Improvement District, concluding that no laws were broken, according to a newly released memo.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement closed its case “due to a lack of a criminal predicate,” the state’s Chief Inspector General Melinda Miguel wrote in ...Read more

A woman in Sonoma County tried to get away with retail theft by pretending to be a 12-year-old girl, police say. But her alleged ruse failed, and the 29-year-old was arrested. It turned out she already had an outstanding warrant connected to some $250,000 in stolen goods, authorities said.

Now, Corenesha Brooks of Antioch faces five felony ...Read more

To many locals, it feels like Santa Cruz's picturesque coast is being battered like never before.

Waves from strong winter storms and a pair of tsunamis have caused millions of dollars in damage to the wharf and marina area in recent years, including an onslaught of dangerous waves this week that washed almost 150 feet of its wharf out to sea. ...Read more