An unlicensed 18-year-old driver from Santa Ana has been charged with vehicular manslaughter after leading police in Orange County on a high-speed chase that ended in a crash and claimed the life of a 15-year-old girl who was in the car with him, authorities announced Thursday.   The fatal incident occurred on March 8 when officers with the Orange Police Department responded to reports of a stolen vehicle.   When police initially stopped the vehicle, they found three people inside the car, including the 18-year-old driver, identified as Izaiah Joseph Miranda, and two teens from Orang ..read more

The Chicago Bears have a new quarterback: University of Southern California star and former Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams. Williams was unsurprisingly selected by the Bear with the No. 1 pick in Thursday's NFL Draft. The pick was acquired by Chicago in a trade last season with the Carolina Panthers, who vaulted up the draft order to acquire the 2023 No. 1 pick that Chicago originally held so the team could draft Bryce Young. The Panthers would end the 2023-24 season with the league's worst record, providing the Chicago Bears the No. 1 overall pick for the second-straight season. USC qu ..read more

One person is dead and another person has been taken into custody after a fatal shooting in a busy corridor of downtown Los Angeles Thursday afternoon. Authorities responded to the intersection of 6th and Main streets at around 3:45 p.m., the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to KTLA.   Aerial footage from Sky5 captured officers, along with medical personnel from the L.A. Fire Department, attempting life saving measures on a victim who was lying on the sidewalk near a trail of blood.   Police and paramedics attempting life saving measures on a gunshot victim in downtown ..read more

OCEANSIDE, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) -- Crews are battling a fire that broke out on the Oceanside Pier Thursday afternoon. The fire is burning in a vacant restaurant at the end of the pier, Oceanside Fire Department said. The business was formerly Ruby’s Diner. A large plume of smoke was seen rising from the burning building. Residents as far east as Vista reported on social media they could see the smoke. Aerial video showed at least three boats fighting the blaze from the ocean ..read more

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has approved the acquisition of new bus driver barriers following multiple high-profile violent incidents on Metro buses. The new plexiglass barriers will be larger and will provide more protection for drivers, and Metro leaders vow to expedite the process of getting them installed. Metro says the new barriers provide good visibility of the bus interior and will allow drivers to focus on the road and deliver passengers safely to their destinations. Video from LA Metro shows a bus driver behind a full plexiglass barrier that is larger ..read more

(NEXSTAR) — With the stroke of his pen, President Joe Biden seemingly started the countdown to the demise of TikTok. Though it’s possible the app won’t actually be banned in the U.S., the potential end of the platform prompted some social media users to reflect on those we have lost. Here’s a look at the social media sites that have retired to the annals of the internet archive.  Myspace What better place to start than MySpace, arguably the first major social networking site? If you were a young Internet user in the 2000s, there’s a good chance you had a MySpace account. Users could styli ..read more

A 46-year-old native of Colombia has been identified as the cyclist hit and killed by a fleeing driver in Los Angeles Wednesday morning. Jose David Monsalve Rojas was hit in the Central-Alameda neighborhood by a vehicle allegedly driven by 23-year-old Germaine Smith. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, officers responded to the area around 6:10 a.m. after a woman who was the victim of a burglary the night before informed them that she was tracking her stolen electronic device. She believed her device was in the suspect's vehicle and she contacted police to report its location, poli ..read more

The estate of late rapper Tupac Shakur is threatening to sue Drake over a diss track using Shakur's likeness with the help of artificial intelligence. Last Friday, the Canadian rapper released a diss track on Instagram titled "Taylor Made Freestyle," which was directed at Kendrick Lamar. It uses an AI-generated voice of Shakur as well as Snoop Dogg. The fake voices of the rap giants are heard urging the Compton native to protect the legacy of West Coast hip-hop. Prominent entertainment attorney Howard E. King is representing Shakur's estate, according to Pitchfork. In a statement obtained by t ..read more

Authorities have arrested an Indio man after they say he tried to kidnap two young girls as they walked to school. At about 9:20 a.m. Wednesday, the girls reported that a man tried to pull one of them into a vehicle near the intersection of Cactus Avenue and Perris Boulevard in Moreno Valley, the Riverside County Sheriff's Department said in a news release. "The juvenile was able to break free from his grasp and, upon arriving at school, notified school administrators, who contacted the Sheriff’s Office," the release said. The girls gave investigators "a detailed description of the suspect and ..read more

A man died in Palmdale early Thursday morning after his SUV rolled over in a single-vehicle crash, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department confirmed. Authorities said deputies responded to reports of a collision in the area of Avenue M near 40th Street East around 1:53 a.m ..read more