Boxes of the diabetes drug Ozempic rest on a pharmacy counter on April 17, 2023, in Los Angeles. (Photo illustration by Mario Tama/Getty Images/TNS)
A surprising thing is happening to some women on weight-loss drugs who’ve struggled with fertility issues: They’re getting pregnant. That’s leading to questions about the safety of medications from Novo Nordisk A/S and Eli Lilly & Co. during pregnancy. “I thought I couldn’t have any more kids,� said Torria Leggett, 40, who had been trying for another after her first child was born in 2018. In ...
LOS ANGELES � There had been high-speed pursuits before on L.A. freeways. But nothing compares to the surreal day of June 17, 1994, when O.J. Simpson and his white Bronco captivated the world's attention. One lawyer at the time called it "the day Los Angeles stopped." Driven by Simpson's boyhood friend and former NFL colleague Al "A.C." Cowlings, the ex-football star led police on a two-hour ...
Police cruisers follow a white Ford Bronco driven by A.C. Cowlings on a Los Angeles freeway in 1994. O.J. Simpson was in the vehicle, reported…
U.S. Sen.Dianne Feinstein speaks Oct. 11, 2017, at a lunch hosted by Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce convention Center.
LOS ANGELES � After a barrier-breaking career over more than a half-century that took her from being the first woman mayor of San Francisco to the longest-serving female Senator in U.S. history, California's late Sen. Dianne Feinstein may be honored with a post office named for her. Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla, who, along with California's junior senator, this week proposed naming a San ...
Twenty-nine of the more than 2,000 water treatment facilities in Colorado do not meet strict new federal limits on the amount of dangerous “forever chemicals� in their drinking water supplies and it will cost millions to clean those toxins out of the water. The public water systems that do not meet new standards of 4 parts per trillion for the chemicals, which generally are referred to as ...
Dogs in a cage at Chesterfield Square Animal Services Center in Los Angeles, 2022.
LOS ANGELES � The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to temporarily stop issuing new dog breeding licenses because of overcrowding at city-run animal shelters. The city's six shelters have 737 kennels, but more than 1,500 dogs were living at the shelters in February, according to the most recent available data. The shelters are more than 200% over capacity, which has led to dogs tripled up ...
Solar panels and wind turbines at Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's Pine Tree clean energy project, in Tehachapi Mountains.