The 25th Annual Newport Beach Film Festival will take place from October 17-24, 2024.

KTLA's Olivia de Bortoli reports on Oct. 17, 2024.

Details: https://newportbeachfilmfest.com/

Video captures a robbery suspect threatening workers with a crow bar at a Home Depot in Upland. (Upland Police)

Crowds gathered along the streets of Downey on Thursday to catch sight of a full-size original space shuttle prototype named the “Inspiration” being transported. The model was built in 1972 as part of Rockwell International's bid to build NASA's space shuttles.

The life-size model is being moved to a renovation facility ahead of its final location in a new exhibit hall at the Columbia Memorial Space Center.

KTLA's Ellina Abovian reports on Oct. 17, 2024.

Israeli forces in Gaza killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, a chief architect of last year’s attack on Israel that sparked the war, the military said Thursday. Troops appeared to have run across him unknowingly in a battle, only to discover afterward that a body in the rubble was Israel’s most wanted man.

Israeli leaders celebrated his killing as a settling of scores just over a year after Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people in Israel and kidnapped 250 others in an attack that stunned the country. They also presented it as a turning point in the campaign to destroy Hamas, urging the group to surrender and release some 100 hostages still in Gaza.

KTLA's Samantha Cortese reports on Oct. 17, 2024.

Details: https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/ap-international/ap-palestinian-officials-say-an-israeli-strike-on-a-school-turned-shelter-in-northern-gaza-killed-15/

Nurses at a Riverside County hospital are protesting plans to shut down the facility’s labor and delivery department.

In August, officials at the Hemet Global Medical Center in Hemet announced they would be closing the obstetrics department due to low volume and a physician shortage. Nurses are protesting the move over concerns that pregnant patients, many of whom are from underserved communities, would have nowhere close by to seek medical care.

KTLA's Shelby Nelson reports on Oct. 17, 2024.

An “Olympic athlete turned drug lord” and 15 others have been charged in a superseding indictment for allegedly running a transnational drug trafficking operation that routinely shipped large amounts of cocaine from Colombia to Canada via Southern California while orchestrating four murders “in furtherance” of their other crimes, officials say.  KTLA 5's Carlos Saucedo reports. (Oct. 17, 2024)

Authorities were searching for an armed man who robbed a bank in Orange County Thursday afternoon, prompting a nearby elementary school to be placed on lockdown after a shot was fired. KTLA 5's Orange County Bureau Chief Chip Yost reports. (Oct. 17, 2024)

A gunshot was fired at during a robbery at a bank in Orange County Thursday, causing a nearby elementary school to be placed on lockdown. KTLA 5's Gil Leyvas reports from Sky5. (Oct. 16, 2024)

So, is this money being well-spent? Many politicians and policy experts, including Governor Newsom, clearly have doubts. October 2024.

As many as 14 students were treated after being sickened by a possible substance on Thursday morning. KTLA's Gil Leyvas reports on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024.

A homeowner in the Valley Glen neighborhood of Los Angeles subdued a man Thursday morning he says was squatting on his property and it wasn't the first time.

Kimberly Cheng reports for the KTLA 5 Morning News on Oct. 17, 2024.

A man threw a gun after an allegedly stolen car appeared to overheat, before he was subsequently taken into custody. KTLA reports on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024.