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One woman is dead and another was briefly hospitalized after a man assaulted them in Quartz Hill Sunday night, authorities said. The women were both found unconscious in the 42900 block of 59th Street just before 8:30 p.m., the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release. They were taken to a local hospital, where one was pronounced dead. The other woman was treated and released. Authorities have not publicly identified the victims or the suspect, but investigators believe they were involved in “a physical fight.” The man was captured while leaving the scene, and officials believe no other attackers were involved. Anyone with information is asked to call the LASD Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500. To provide information anonymously, contact Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS (8477) or visit lacrimestoppers.org.

A pedestrian was struck and killed by a train in Northridge early Monday morning, authorities told KTLA.  A Los Angeles Fire Department official confirmed the fatal collision on the tracks off Corbin Avenue near Bahama Street.  While the official did not disclose the exact time the incident occurred, preliminary information indicates that authorities responded to the area just before 5:45 a.m.  A pedestrian was struck and killed by a train in Northridge early Monday, July 15, 2024, authorities told KTLA.  A pedestrian was struck and killed by a train in Northridge early Monday, July 15, 2024, authorities told KTLA.  A pedestrian was struck and killed by a train in Northridge early Monday, July 15, 2024, authorities told KTLA.  Video from the scene shows the Metrolink train stopped on the tracks as law enforcement canvassed the area. Footage posted to the Citizen App shows police completely blocking the tracks off from any train traffic. The investigation into the fatal collision remains in its preliminary stages. No identifying information regarding the victim was released.  Meredith Gunning contributed to this report.

The 20-year-old man who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump first came to law enforcement’s attention at Saturday’s rally when spectators noticed him acting strangely outside the campaign event. The tip sparked a frantic search, but officers were unable to find him before he managed to get on a roof, where he opened fire. In the wake of the shooting that killed one spectator, investigators were hunting for any clues about what may have driven Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, to carry out the shocking attack. The FBI said they were investigating it as a potential act of domestic terrorism, but the absence of a clear ideological motive by the man shot dead by the Secret Service led conspiracy theories to flourish. “I urge everyone – everyone, please, don’t make assumptions about his motives or his affiliations,” President Joe Biden said in remarks Sunday from the White House. “Let the FBI do their job, and their partner agencies do their job. I’ve instructed that this investigation be thorough and swift.” This June 3, 2022, still image taken from a video provided by the Bethel Park School District shows student Thomas

The Republican National Convention opens Monday in Milwaukee at one of the most tumultuous times in modern American history. The four-day event is a make-good of sorts. The city of beers and brats was supposed to host the convention four years ago, but the in-person gathering was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This time, the event is shadowed by the attempted assassination of former President Trump who, undeterred, arrived Sunday to formally claim the GOP nomination. Columnists Mark Z. Barabak and Anita Chabria are also on hand this week. Here they look back at the head-spinning events of the last 48 hours and ponder what’s to come. Barabak: Anita, whatever your politics, or feelings about Trump, we agree the attempt on his life was a scary and terrible thing. My question from a political standpoint is: Trump and President Biden both issued calls for unity and, at least implicitly, urged a step back from the inflammatory rhetoric of the White House campaign. How long can, and how long should, that last? After all, political conventions are all about building up your candidate and tearing

How could a gunman get so close to presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday, coming within inches of killing him at a Pennsylvania rally? That is perhaps the biggest question two days after an assassination attempt that rocked the world and upended the 2024 presidential race. Some experts are describing the event as an epic security failure, questioning how the gunman could have gotten onto the roof of a building located about a football field’s distance from Trump’s stage and opened fire before being shot by Secret Service agents. Video and eyewitness accounts indicate that some in the crowd noticed the gunman and called out to law enforcement moments before the shooting. “A direct line of sight like that to the former president should not occur,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told ABC News on Monday. Others also had questions. “How could an individual be at that elevation that was seen by apparently bystanders on the ground? How could that not be noticed by Secret Service?” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) asked Sunday morning on NBC. “Lots more questions than answers this morning,” said Johnson

On June 28, when I boarded a plane at LAX for Norway, the flippant thought crossed my mind that maybe, just maybe, I’d stay on the other side of the Atlantic until the Nov. 5 presidential election was behind us. But today, as I write from a sweltering Italy , the United States looks different from the country I departed — startlingly, horrifically different. I flew to Norway the day after an elderly, occasionally incoherent candidate blathered his way through a debate; but it was his slightly older opponent, though more honest and humane, who sent his party into a prolonged panic with his own — unexpected! — incoherence and blather. Perfect timing, I thought, because my Norwegian family would have questions. After all, they follow American politics more closely than a lot of Americans do. Sure enough, when I landed at Oslo’s airport, my cousin’s husband couldn’t wait more than five minutes to ask a real-life Californian about it. I joked with him that we may have to extend our stay. Now, there are no more jokes. Two days after we arrived in Norway

Firefighters located the body of a dog at an Orange County home that caught fire during the early morning hours Monday. The blaze was reported shortly after 1 a.m. in the 5100 block of Brazo in Laguna Woods. “The first-arriving crew found a single-story house with smoke showing,” the Orange County Fire Authority posted on X, formerly Twitter. A firefighter cuts through the roof of a burning home in Laguna Woods on July 15, 2024. (Orange County Fire Authority) Video showed flames burning around one firefighter who used a saw to cut through and ventilate the roof. All residents were safely evacuated from the home but crews located a dog inside that did not survive, the post read. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.