Searchers have recovered a portion of landing gear and other debris near the site of a reported midair collision, according to authorities. Read more

The man shot at the Beverly Center mall this afternoon was identified as Atlanta-based Dolla, whose real name is Roderick Anthony Burton II, according to his publicist, Sue Vannasing. Read more

A Bakersfield man with a history of drug abuse remained jailed Monday after allegedly biting out one of his 4-year-old son’s eyes and mutilating the other. Read more

The battle over six state budget propositions on today’s ballot sputtered to a close Monday with a burst of low-profile campaigning that belied the gravity of California’s fiscal crisis. Read more

There’s an uproar over the infamous freshwater quagga mussel at Klondike Lake, one of the few patches of water in the sprawling Owens Valley open to motorized recreation. Read more

If you’re a native English speaker in Southern California, you may feel bombarded with Spanish every day. Read more

Uruguayan author Mario Benedetti, whose bestselling poems and novels helped launch Latin America’s postwar literary boom, has died. Read more

The northern portion of the Newport-Inglewood fault, which appeared to rupture in Sunday’s magnitude 4.7 quake, is believed to be less prone to large, destructive earthquakes than the fault’s southern portion, USC professor James Dolan said Monday. Read more

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