The mother of Dane Elkins, a college student from Brentwood who has been missing since December, recently learned he may have been spotted six weeks later, giving her hope others may have seen him as well.The possible sighting happened on February 5th in Mojave by Jeannette Beridon and her daughter, Vanessa Proa, who say they spoke with Elkins for about 10 minutes.“He came in and asked us if we were roughing it, that he had been roughing it a few months," Beridon said.

LA CRESCENTA, Calif. (CNS) -- Angeles National Forest officials on Friday announced an investigation into the possible unauthorized entry into a federally closed burn area by a 45-year-old hiker who became lost in the area. Rene Compean of Palmdale was reported missing about 6 p.m. Monday when a friend called the Crescenta Valley Sheriff's Station after receiving a text message from Compean stating that he was lost and his cellphone was dying, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Compean sent his friend a picture earlier in the hike from a trail with a burn area near a mountain. The sheriff's department circulated the picture Tuesday and asked for information from anyone who knew the area. A Twitter user recognized the area depicted in the photo and the LASD used information the user gathered to narrow their search. Rescuers also collaborated with Ben Kuo, a ham radio operator, who used GPS locations to aid in the search.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - The jury in the Derek Chauvin trial is expected to go into deliberations this week and cities across the country are bracing for possible protests once the verdict is announced, including Beverly Hills. RELATED: Derek Chauvin trial live: Closing argumentsBeverly Hills Police Chief Dominick Rivetti said starting April 19, the city is on high alert and will take a proactive approach. 

Crowds gather at the LA park to demand justice for Duante Wright and Adam Toledo, both recently killed by police.

A Los Angeles filmmaker who is the granddaughter of Armenian Genocide survivors has made a documentary that uncovers her family’s past. 

The latest weather forecast for the greater Los Angeles area, including beaches, valleys and desert regions.

Los Angeles County reported 466 new cases of COVID-19 and three additional deaths Sunday, along with a drop in hospitalizations related to the virus.

VALENCIA, SANTA CLARITA (KABC) -- With Six Flags Magic Mountain back in business, the large-scale COVID-19 vaccination site operated by the county in the theme park's parking lot will be replaced Monday by a pair of smaller locations. The Magic Mountain vaccine site closed at the end of the day Sunday. On Monday, vaccination sites run by the county will open at College of the Canyons and the Palmdale Oasis Park Recreation Center, providing options for walk-up appointments for residents in the Santa Clarita and Antelope valleys. Both of the new sites will have the capacity to administer up to 2,000 shots per day. "I am incredibly grateful to Magic Mountain for their generosity and critical partnership as we provided the vaccine to thousands of residents at their mass vaccine distribution site,'' county Supervisor Kathryn Barger said in a statement when the closure was announced.

Proposed federal infrastructure funding for rail projects has transportation planners taking another look at a Los Angeles-to-Las Vegas passenger route that Amtrak stopped in 1997 and at a high-speed rail line along the congested Interstate 15 corridor to Victorville.President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion jobs bill would finance Amtrak plans to expand service nationwide and launch multiple new routes, including one between southern Nevada and Southern California.

Six people were injured Monday morning, including one in critical condition, after a multiple-vehicle crash on the 5 Freeway in Commerce.The crash was reported at 2:40 a.m. on the northbound 5 Freeway just south of Slauson Avenue, according to the California Highway Patrol.Witnesses told the CHP at least two vehicles crashed into a sedan that was stalled in the fast lane.Two people were taken by paramedics to hospitals for treatment, said Los Angeles County Fire Department Dispatch Supervisor Melinda Choi. One was in critical condition and one had moderate injuries, she said. Four other people suffered minor injuries.

Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez scored two goals, Sacha Kljestan added another and the LA Galaxy rallied to beat Inter Miami 3-2 on Sunday in the season opener for both teams.Kljestan bent a left-footer around a defender and off the near post to break a 2-2 tie in the 81st minute. It was the 35-year-old's first goal since 2019 for Orlando City.Robbie Robinson, a 22-year-old in his second MLS season, scored his first career goal to give Miami a 1-0 lead in first-half stoppage time. Gonzalo Higuain ran onto a long, arcing ball by Rodolfo Pizarro from beyond midfield and tapped it to Robinson, who put away a first-timer.

NASA’s experimental Mars helicopter rose from the dusty red surface into the thin air Monday, achieving the first powered, controlled flight on another planet.The triumph was hailed as a Wright Brothers moment. The mini 4-pound (1.8-kilogram) copter named Ingenuity, in fact, carried a bit of wing fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer, which made similar history at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.“We can now say that human beings have flown a rotorcraft on another planet," project manager MiMi Aung announced to her team.

Huntington Beach officials held what they called a popup community picnic to promote diversity in the city after last week's planned White Lives Matter rally.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KABC) -- The family of the three young Reseda children whose mother admitted to drowning them hosted a fundraiser on Saturday to pay for the victims' funeral services. Relatives gathered at Roger Jessup park in Pacoima, selling homemade food to try to raise money for memorial services. The children ranged in age from 6 months to 3 years. Their mother, Lilliana Carillo, confessed to the killings in an interview with Bakersfield's KGET-TV. "I drowned them. I did it as softly ... I don't know how to explain it," Lilliana Carrillo said Thursday in a disturbing with KGET-TV. "I hugged them. I kissed them. I was apologizing the whole time. I loved my kids." Carrillo told the Bakersfield television station that she killed the children to protect them from their father, who she claimed was involved in human trafficking.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (KABC) -- The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department on Sunday hosted a pop-up vaccination clinic at a middle school in Inglewood, where some 800 COVID-19 shots were administered. "Not being able to have something nearby now they have this within walking distance and have it in their community," Maria Camacho, a volunteer nurse, said of residents who received vaccine doses at the site. The LASD's Community Advisory Council has set up 10 different pop-up sites across the area serving, nearly 10,000 people so far. "We took the decision as a family to take the shot and contain the virus," said Inglewood resident Emerson Jacinto, one of hundreds to came to the clinic at Lennox Middle School on Sunday. L.A. County officials said more than 600,000 vaccine doses are expected to be available countywide this week.

Minnesota Twins players underwent coronavirus testing in their hotel Sunday with the team planning on remaining in Anaheim until receiving results Monday.Major League Baseball announced Sunday that Monday's scheduled game between the Twins and Oakland Athletics at Oakland Coliseum has been postponed to allow for continued testing and contact tracing involving members of the Minnesota organization.Subject to change based on further test results, a traditional doubleheader has tentatively been scheduled for Tuesday.

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NASA made history with a successful first flight of its experimental helicopter on Mars, the first time an aircraft has flown on another planet.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A woman in California has died after her parachute failed to fully open as she was falling to the ground and it became tangled around her, police said.The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office said the woman died on Saturday at the Lodi Parachute Center. The woman was not identified."What was reported to us from someone who witnessed the (incident)… was that the chute failed to fully open as she was coming down and it was heavily tangled around her," the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office said.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (KABC) -- The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department on Sunday hosted a pop-up vaccination clinic at a middle school in Inglewood, where some 800 COVID-19 shots were administered. "Not being able to have something nearby now they have this within walking distance and have it in their community," Maria Camacho, a volunteer nurse, said of residents who received vaccine doses at the site. The LASD's Community Advisory Council has set up 10 different pop-up sites across the area serving, nearly 10,000 people so far. "We took the decision as a family to take the shot and contain the virus," said Inglewood resident Emerson Jacinto, one of hundreds to came to the clinic at Lennox Middle School on Sunday. L.A. County officials said more than 600,000 vaccine doses are expected to be available countywide this week.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA made history with a successful first flight of its experimental helicopter on Mars, the first time an aircraft has flown on another planet.The American space agency made its first controlled flight on the red planet early Monday, though the stream of data confirming its success was received a few hours later. The triumph was hailed as a Wright Brothers moment. In a nod to past scientific exploration, the mini 4-pound helicopter named Ingenuity carried a bit of wing fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer, which made similar history at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Cities across the country, including Beverly Hills, are bracing for possible protests once the verdict is announced in the Derek Chauvin trial.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KABC) -- The family of the three young Reseda children whose mother admitted to drowning them hosted a fundraiser on Saturday to pay for the victims' funeral services. Relatives gathered at Roger Jessup park in Pacoima, selling homemade food to try to raise money for memorial services. The children ranged in age from 6 months to 3 years. Their mother, Lilliana Carillo, confessed to the killings in an interview with Bakersfield's KGET-TV. "I drowned them. I did it as softly ... I don't know how to explain it," Lilliana Carrillo said Thursday in a disturbing with KGET-TV. "I hugged them. I kissed them. I was apologizing the whole time. I loved my kids." Carrillo told the Bakersfield television station that she killed the children to protect them from their father, who she claimed was involved in human trafficking.

Here's a look at NASA's historic flight of an aircraft on Mars, a feat the space agency called a "Wright brothers moment."NASA rover Perseverance captured imagery of the flight after rolling a short distance away, with one of its navigation cameras showing a sequence before, during and after the helicopter's flight.Ingenuity, which weighs 4 pounds, successfully flew autonomously for 39 seconds.NASA announced after the flight that the area on Mars' Jezero Crater where Ingenuity flew will be known as Wright Brothers Field.