Vance anti-fraud task force suspends 447 hospices in Los Angeles over more than $600M in suspected fraud

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: The anti-fraud task force led by Vice President JD Vance has suspended 447 hospices and 23 home health agencies suspected of fraud in Los Angeles, with a total fraud estimate of more than $600 million. The number of suspensions is a roughly 539% increase … Read more

Los Angeles schools avoid a strike as a last-minute deal is reached with staff

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles schools avoided a strike that would have impacted nearly 400,000 students in Southern California as the school district and the union representing support staff reached a tentative deal early Tuesday. Local 99 of the Service Employees International Union announced on social media that it won a tentative agreement with “major … Read more

Los Angeles schools strike averted as deal reached; schools are open Tuesday

A Los Angeles Unified School District strike has been avoided and schools are open Tuesday after the district and the Service Employees International Union reached a tentative agreement.  SEIU Local 99, which represents about 30,000 aides, bus drivers, custodians and cafeteria workers, said the deal with the district, LAUSD, includes a 24% wage increase. The … Read more

WATCH: Son of former top Iranian official seen living comfortable life in Los Angeles

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The son of a former top-level Iranian official, who acted as the spokesperson for hostage takers occupying Tehran’s U.S. Embassy in 1979, is yet another relative of Iran’s hard-lined Islamist regime caught living a comfortable and affluent Western lifestyle in Los Angeles.  Petitioners have been calling for … Read more

Trial to begin in lawsuit over fatal Los Angeles police shooting of 14-year-old girl in 2021

LOS ANGELES — A wrongful-death lawsuit filed against the Los Angeles Police Department for an officer’s fatal shooting of a 14-year-old girl in a clothing store is set to begin trial Wednesday. Valentina Orellana-Peralta was shopping for Christmas clothes with her mother at a Burlington store in the San Fernando Valley’s North Hollywood neighborhood on … Read more

El Paso, Los Angeles among the most polluted cities in the U.S. in 2025, new report says

El Paso and Los Angeles were among the most polluted areas in the United States last year, according to a new air quality report that evaluated pollution levels around the world in 2025.  The report is the latest iteration of a global analysis that the Swiss technology company IQAir publishes annually. This one centered on … Read more

State records show 89 hospice companies at one Los Angeles office plaza. We went to look for ourselves.

The Merabi Professional Medical Plaza, a three-story, 32,000 square foot stucco and glass office building in Los Angeles, is home to a salon, a law office, a modeling agency, a realty corporation and, also, 89 licensed hospice companies.  Patient advocate Sheila Clark, who has worked to expose allegations of widespread Medicare fraud in the hospice … Read more