Authorities and loved ones are searching for a missing girl who disappeared in Los Angeles County. The girl, who is at risk, was identified as Angel Marie Birchfield, 12, by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Birchfield has been missing since March 26. She was last seen on the 14100 block of South Corday Avenue in Hawthorne at around 10 p.m. The girl has health conditions that require medication, her family said. Birchfield is described as a Black female standing 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighing 167 pounds. She has brown eyes and her hair is styled in box braids. She was last seen w ..read more

Two Los Angeles County men are facing federal charges after authorities say they robbed more than a dozen massage parlors in Los Angeles and Orange counties. According to a release from the U.S. Department of Justice, 28-year-old Andy Cuellar of Hawthorne and 27-year-old Arturo Morales of Downey were arrested on Friday after an armed robbery that day. Prosecutors say the pair robbed a massage parlor in Torrance that day, with Cuellar driving a black Jeep Grand Cherokee and Morales riding as passenger. "After the robbery, Cuellar and Morales allegedly were located less than two miles away at a ..read more

A man and a woman are expected to survive after being shot in a Hawthorne neighborhood Monday night. Police responded to a shooting report just before 10:30 p.m. in the area of West El Segundo Boulevard and Doty Avenue, a Hawthorne Police Department spokesperson confirmed. Arriving officers located two gunshot victims, described only as a man and a woman. Both were transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, the spokesperson said. A man was later taken into custody in connection with the shooting, and authorities say there are no outstanding suspects. No details about a ..read more

A man was fatally stabbed on a Metro Green Line train in Hawthorne Wednesday evening, but not before shooting his alleged assailant in the chest. The unidentified victim, a man believed to be in his early to mid 20s, died at a local hospital after deputies found him "suffering from apparent stab wounds to the upper torso" on a train at the Crenshaw Station at about 7:20 p.m., the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said in a news release. The station at 11902 S. Crenshaw Blvd. is on one of Los Angeles Metro's suggested public transit routes to Taylor Swift's upcoming shows at SoFi Stadium ..read more

NASA has announced the four-person crew who will travel around the moon on Artemis II and one of the astronauts is a Southern California native. Victor Glover was born in Pomona and graduated from Ontario High School. In 2020, he became the first Black astronaut to live on the International Space Station as part of a long-duration mission and he's now set to become the first Black astronaut to orbit the moon. "This is well beyond my wildest dreams," he exclaimed on the KTLA 5 Morning News. "My first flight to the International Space Station was beyond my wildest dreams and this is really well ..read more

A boy was killed and a man was injured after being hit by a car in Hawthorne Sunday night, police said. The crash was reported around 8:35 p.m. near the intersection of El Segundo Boulevard and Truro Avenue. An investigation revealed a boy, a girl and a man were crossing the street after leaving a nearby laundromat when they were struck by a vehicle heading east on El Segundo Boulevard, Hawthorne police said. The boy, believed to be 12 or 13 years old, died from his injuries, while the man was taken to a hospital with injuries that were described as not life threatening. The two are believed t ..read more

A private jet crashed after veering off the runway at Hawthorne Municipal Airport on Tuesday night. The crash happened around 6:30 p.m. at end of the runway located near Prairie Ave, according to Los Angeles County Fire officials. The 11-passenger Embraer Phenom 300 touched down but failed to come to a stop where it should, the Los Angeles Times reported. Video from Sky5 shows the plane crashed through a barrier fence before coming to a stop partially on a street. The plane's tail end can be seen resting on top of the metal barrier. Though seven passengers were initially reported to be o ..read more

A man in his 20s was found shot to death inside his car in Hawthorne Saturday evening. The man, whom authorities did not identify, was found in the 11500 block of York Avenue at about 7:30 p.m. when officers from the Hawthorne Police Department responded to reports of shots fired, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said in a news release ..read more

An Army veteran and father of three said he was stabbed in an unprovoked attack while getting off the Metro in Hawthorne over the weekend. The incident occurred as Timothy Hahn was leaving the Metro Green Line Crenshaw station around 1 p.m. Sunday. Hahn said someone spit at him as he stepped off the train. He found himself face-to-face with a man he had never seen before. That’s when he saw the 12-inch blade going toward his stomach. Hahn raised his arm to block the blade from piercing his vital organs. Instead, the blade went through his arm. “With all the blood everywhere, I thought I was dy ..read more

Two girls were sexually abused by their former babysitter's husband, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said, and investigators are asking the public to come forward with information about other victims. The alleged abuser, 74-year-old Rosendo Medrano, was arrested Wednesday and faces five felony charges of lewd acts on a child under 10 years old and three counts of lewd acts on a child under 14 years old by force or fear, authorities said in a news release. According to investigators, Medrano abused the girls between 2012 and 2016, when he lived in unincorporated Hawthorne, and due t ..read more