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The Los Angeles City Council voted 11-3 to identify $460,000 for a feasibility study on establishing a city-owned public bank. Supporters say a public bank could help finance affordable housing, small businesses and infrastructure while keeping more money local.

Long Beach leaders held a meeting to address the potentially historic El Niño winter storms.

Police in Corona say two 15-year-old girls were planning a mass shooting at Corona High School. 

As Southern California deals with bands on rain this week, Long Beach officials are bracing for coastal flooding in the area.

Bell Gardens High School was placed on lockdown Wednesday after reports of a weapon on campus. Police detained a student and recovered one gun, while officials confirmed no shots were fired.

High tides and increased wave activity are worsening coastal erosion near Crystal Cove along PCH. Caltrans has closed portions of the southbound lanes as it begins the second phase of emergency slope stabilization work.

Authorities say Meta flagged internal messages between the teens after discovering they spent months researching past school shootings, mapping the campus, creating a hit list of students and staff, and looking for ways to illegally acquire firearms. Police believe the plot was driven by revenge.

Anthropic, the AI-corporation behind Claude, reported a net loss of $80.7 billion in the first half of 2026, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The teenagers, students at Corona and Norco High Schools, allegedly spent months researching school shootings and discussing methods to obtain weapons before Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents and local detectives intervened, taking both into custody on charges of conspiracy to commit murder. 

Bell Gardens police said on social media they were at the campus for an "investigation of a reported hand gun on campus." Officers confirmed that no shooting had occurred and all students were safe.

The parents of 13-year-old Benson Nguyen face child endangerment charges after the teen died in a 43 mph E-Moto crash in Garden Grove.

A student was taken into custody after reportedly bringing a gun to the Bell Gardens campus on Wednesday. 

Bell Gardens High School was placed on lockdown on Wednesday. 

Two 15-year-old high school students were arrested for allegedly planning a attack on Corona High School after an FBI investigation uncovered online communications. Detectives served search warrants on electronic devices and residences across Riverside County, confirming the suspects researched past school shootings and attempted to acquire weapons, though none were found. The juveniles remain in custody facing Conspiracy to Commit Murder charges while the case undergoes review by the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office.