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SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Friday in the first all-private human spaceflight mission to the International Space Station, marking a step toward the first private space station.

A 25-year-old man was shot to death during an argument at a Southern California home where a baby shower was being held, authorities said Tuesday.

A man was killed in Hawthorne Saturday, and authorities were investigating the possibility that he was beaten to death by people who pulled him from a truck that nearly missed striking several patrons standing on a sidewalk in front of a business.

 A South Bay man was sentenced Thursday to 212 years in federal prison for defrauding insurance companies after driving his two disabled children and ex-wife off a pier at the Port of Los Angeles to collect on accidental death policies, a scheme the judge called “evil and diabolical.”

Hawthorne-based SpaceX launched a NASA ocean- monitoring satellite into orbit Saturday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California. Residents in parts of Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo counties could hear a series of sonic booms following liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket.

Hawthorne-based SpaceX launched another 60 internet satellites into orbit Saturday from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

An investigation is underway after two bodies were found inside a hotel room in Hawthorne on Friday.

Hawthorne police arrested a man suspected of setting a police car on fire in front of the station in an act caught on camera, the department announced Thursday. Officers realized an unoccupied patrol vehicle parked in front of the police department had been engulfed in flames at about 12:15 a.m. Surveillance footage taken of the incident depicts a man dousing…

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket pierced a layer of low clouds early Wednesday as it carried three satellites into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County.

Hawthorne-based SpaceX Thursday night launched a rocket from Cape Canaveral with the first batch of what could ultimately be thousands of satellites providing space-based internet service around the globe after the mission was scrubbed twice last week.

A company backed by tech billionaire Elon Musk has been awarded a nearly $49 million contract to build a transit system using self-driving vehicles underneath the Las Vegas Convention Center.

SpaceX’s sleek, new crew capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday, acing its second milestone in just over a day. No one was aboard the Dragon capsule launched Saturday on its first test flight, only an instrumented dummy. But that quickly changed once the hatch swung open and the space station astronauts floated inside. “A new generation of...

The scheduled launch of a rocket carrying a reconnaissance satellite into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County that was originally scheduled for Friday and reset for Saturday was called off at T-minus 7 seconds due to a problem detected by the Terminal Countdown Sequencer Rack, according to United Launch Alliance.

A 28-year-old man riding a “Vespa-type” scooter in Huntington Park this morning was struck and killed by a hit-and run motorist who returned to the crash scene to retrieve his front bumper, where he was taken into custody by police.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti expressed support Friday for Elon Musk and said he wants the city to keep pursing several large-scale projects with the tech tycoon’s companies despite his eyebrow raising behavior lately.

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa said Monday that he plans to blast off on the first-ever commercial trip around the moon and will invite six to eight artists, architects, designers and other creative people on the weeklong journey.

A recycled SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried a cargo ship from the Florida coast Monday on a supply mission to the International Space Station.

A SpaceX rocket used for a previous mission was sent back into space, this time with 10 communications satellites aboard. The rocket launched Friday, March 30, 2018, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.