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January 21, 2022

Brianna Kupfer murder suspect reported in 911 call released by police

FIRST ON FOX: Police in California on Thursday shared a 911 call from the man who spotted a suspect wanted in the stabbing death of UCLA graduate student Brianna Kupfer.

January 21, 2022

California bill would allow preteens to be vaccinated without parents' consent

California would allow children age 12 and up to be vaccinated without their parents' consent, the youngest age of any state, under a proposal late Thursday by a state senator.

January 21, 2022

Los Angeles mayor's former chief of staff called BLM chapter 'annoying' in leaked email: report

The former chief of staff for Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti referred to the city’s Black Lives Matter chapter as 'annoying,' leaked emails show.

January 21, 2022

Newsom calls littered LA rail tracks ‘unacceptable,’ brings along cleanup crew

Reacting to recent media images of trash-strewn railroad tracks in Los Angeles – the result in part of thieves stealing from passing rail cars and discarding packaging – California Gov. Gavin Newsom showed up Thursday with a clean-up crew and vowed action.

January 20, 2022

Brianna Kupfer's alleged killer Shawn Smith once bit a cop, police report says

Brianna Kupfer's alleged killer Shawn Smith chomped on a cop's hand, drawing blood about one year before stabbing the 24-year-old UCLA graduate student to death in a random daylight attack in Los Angeles, Fox News Digital has learned.

January 20, 2022

Falling deaths of mother, 2-year-old son at Padres' Petco Park ruled suicide-homicide: police

Authorities in California announced Wednesday that the falling deaths of a 40-year-old woman and her 2-year-old son at a San Diego Padres game Sept. 25 have officially been ruled a suicide-homicide.

January 20, 2022

San Francisco nurse who 'abruptly' left job mid-shift hasn't been seen since

The search for a Stanford traveling nurse continues who left his job Tuesday morning and has been missing ever since. A search conducted by California Highway Patrol Hayward (CHP) and other volunteers discovered 27-year-old Michael Odell's car near San Francisco Dumbarton Bridge, according to NBC Bay Area.

January 20, 2022

Los Angeles train robberies: Congress members ask Garland for DOJ's help

Reps. Tom Tiffany, Michelle Steel and others are asking Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate train robberies after photos and videos of LA train cargo being looted went vial last week.

January 20, 2022

Hospital systems squeezing city resources amid COVID-related staff shortages, creating longer wait times

From police officers to paramedics, emergency service departments across the country are struggling to stay fully staffed because of COVID-19. But there's another major issue departments are dealing with: “Wall time” which according to officials, is only making things worse and making wait times even longer.

January 20, 2022

Police activity shuts San Francisco Airport BART station, cops engage 'threatening individual'

The San Francisco International Airport's BART station was temporarily shut down Thursday due to police activity, the airport said.