Loved ones are searching for a missing man who was last seen in East Los Angeles. Ryan Aldama, 21, was reported missing on Feb. 28. His last known location was on the 1900 block of Marengo Street, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

The book takes its name from “Origin Story,” one of the stories in the book. “It seemed to me that many of the stories were grappling with where we come from, the sort of inexorable pull of memory, and that it really applied thematically beyond the boundary of the single story, thus the slight tweak for the title of the collection,” she says.

Actor Steve Carell partnered with a charity, Alice’s Kids, to send hundreds of Southern California kids impacted by the recent devastating wildfires to prom for free.

Thirty officers at a Southern California juvenile detention facility have been charged for their role in facilitating so-called “gladiator fights” between youth in their care.

Louisiana is the most likely place to find flood insurance, with 21% of its housing covered, followed by Florida, with 18%, Hawaii, with 11%, South Carolina, with 8%, and Delaware, with 6%.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County sues Southern California Edison, alleging the utility’s equipment sparked the deadly Eaton Fire.