A man was killed in a two-vehicle crash in Paramount, authorities said Monday.

The crash occurred at 11:29 p.m. Sunday in the 8000 block of Rosecrans Avenue, said Sgt. Jose Salgado of the Sheriff's Lakewood Station.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene, Salgado said. The occupants of the other vehicle were treated for their injuries at the scene and not taken to hospitals.

Investigators remained at the scene trying to determine the cause of the crash, he said. Lanes of Rosecrans Avenue in the area remained open.

A man was killed and a child was critically injured in Santa Ana when their vehicle crashed a car into a utility pole during a police pursuit, authorities said Monday.

It started about 10:30 p.m. Sunday when officers responded to a call of a man brandishing a weapon in the 1600 block of South Main Street, said Santa Ana police Corporal Anthony Bertagna.

Officers spotted the car in the area and the suspect fled when police approached, Bertagna said. The suspect crashed into a utility pole in the 1400 block of West Warner Avenue.

The man driving the car was pronounced dead at the scene, the corporal said. A 9-year-old girl was taken to a hospital in critical condition. Firefighters used hydraulic equipment to remove the child from the car, a witness said.

Once at the hospital, her vital signs stabilized, according to broadcast reports.

Inside the car, investigators discovered a gun, large amounts of cash and cocaine, investigators said.

The utility pole belonged to Southern California Edison, which reported on its website that 14 customers lost power and crews were working to restore it by 3:30 p.m.

Crews contending with triple-digit temperatures slowed the spread of an aggressive wildfire that destroyed dozens of homes in a rural area of California near Yosemite National Park, officials said Sunday.

The blaze burning for a week has scorched just over 118 square miles (305 square kilometers) of dense brush and dead trees in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Many evacuated residents were allowed to return, but flames continue to threaten about 1,500 homes in Mariposa County.

The fire was 40 percent contained, but officials said it could take crews another two weeks to fully surround it.

"They are still out in front of an uncontrolled fire, but the fire isn't moving at 30 mph (48 kph). The fire is crawling along," fire spokesman Brandon Vaccaro said Saturday. Flames spared Mariposa, a historic Gold Rush-era town, but more than 60 nearby homes and about 64 other buildings were destroyed.

Nearly 4,500 firefighters fought the blaze using air tankers and fleets of helicopters and bulldozers.

The fire grew by up to 47 square miles (122 square kilometers) a day at its peak. But by the weekend, the growth rate was slowed despite dry, blistering weather, Vaccaro said.

The smoke blurred the scenic vistas of Yosemite National Park, about 35 miles (56 kilometers) west of the fire. Tourists expecting the grandeur of falls and granite peaks instead saw hazy gray silhouettes.

Some roads remained closed. But Mariposa, with a population of about 2,000, was coming back to life.

Steve Valdez was back at work Saturday at a hardware store despite losing his home of 17 years to the fire.

"There are people out there who depend upon us to get power, to get water, to get their equipment fixed," he said.

Valdez, 60, and his wife had 20 minutes to grab a few photographs, bills and some family Bibles before they fled the encroaching flames. When they returned, only the home's chimney was still standing. They plan to rebuild.

The fire was one of more than a dozen that have ravaged California in recent weeks.

To the south, officials have finally lifted all remaining evacuations in a stubborn fire burning for more than two weeks in the mountains of Santa Barbara County. The blaze, which destroyed 16 homes, is 87 percent and hasn't grown in size for several days.

The fiancé of Justine Damond, the unarmed Australian woman killed by a police officer last week in Minneapolis after calling 911, says he keeps thinking about the circumstances of the fatal shooting "over and over."

Don Damond, who is also Australian, told Justine to call 911 and stayed on the phone with his fiancé until the police arrived. Damond was in Las Vegas at the time of his fiancé's death.

"I have played this over in my head over and over," Damond told The New York Times in his first interview since the shooting. "Why didn't I stay on the phone with her?"

Investigators are trying to figure out what went wrong on that Saturday night when Justine, a 40-year-old life coach, called police to report a possible sexual assault happening behind her home.

Officer Mohamed Noor, the officer who shot Damond, and his partner, Officer Matthew Harrity, did not have their body cameras on. Harrity said that he was startled by a loud noise before the shooting, The Associated Press reported. Noor has remained silent amid outcry over the case, having yet to speak with investigators. 

Minneapolis police Chief Janee Harteau resigned on Friday at the request of Mayor Betsy Hodges in the aftermath of the shooting.

"I've decided I am willing to step aside to let a fresh set of leadership eyes see what more can be done for the MPD to be the very best it can be," Harteau said in a statement on Friday.

Kionte Storey is on a journey to change lives after his life was forever changed seven years ago.

The Marine veteran was serving in Afghanistan when he lost his right leg below the knee to an improvised explosive device. He says he can handle the physical adjustment pretty well, but "it's more of a mental struggle. That's really the hardest battle of all."

He attempted to make the U.S. Paralympics team twice as a sprinter, but after he came up short, Storey found a new passion during a trip to Antarctica: mountain climbing.

“That was that mental breakthrough, at least for me, being on that mountain was just [an] incredible experience overall,” he said.

Storey is now in Ecuador preparing to make a 19,000-foot climb to the top of Cayambe volcano with an organization called Range of Motion Project (ROMP). The non-profit organization provides prosthetics and orthopedic care for people in underserved countries.

NBC 7 caught up with Storey on Cowles Mountain before he left for his healing journey. He was carrying a 40-pound backpack to help him cope with the effects of altitude during his South American climb.

But it’s not the only weight Kionte Storey carries with him, a weight he says he used to propel him up the mountain. “The way I got to the summit was just thinking about my friends we lost overseas during our deployment," he explains. “Knowing why you're out there is really going to get you to the top." 

Storey has raised $4,200 for the Ecuador climb, which will help 10 people get prosthetic care. But his trek is just the beginning.

The Marine veteran’s next quest will be to climb Mount Kilimanjaro to benefit veterans with traumatic brain injuries through the Bob Woodruff Foundation. His attitude about his newfound purpose is as inspiring as his determination to overcome his challenges.

"For me, it's just… providing as much happiness to others as I can," he said.

As far as pairing peaches and strawberries in the same tart or pie or cake or ice cream-topping sauce?

It does happen, now and then, and there's no arguing otherwise. But you're more apt to find peaches cozying up to other stone fruits, like apricots, in many classic desserts, while strawberries are all buddy-buddy with the other berries of the world, from blue to boysen to black to huckle.

Where the friendship of peaches and strawberries glimmers brightest, though, at least around Southern California, is in Glendora. And when we say "glimmers" we mean the sort of sweet shimmer that a juicy fruit-stuffed doughnut gives off when a ray of light falls upon its moist middle.

Ah, we just gave away the big reveal: It's The Donut Man we're talking about here, a morning-starting icon of the Glendora area since 1972.

And while strawberries stick to their own doughnut at the shop, and peaches appear in their own soft, chewy pastry, the strawberry doughnut and peach doughnut, which are both seasonal treats, are both huge with The Donut Man's faithful customer base.

It's a customer base that keeps an eye on social media to see when strawberry doughnuts come back into season (usually in the later winter) and when the peach doughnuts make their all-too-brief cameo (around the middle of summer).

Strawberry Doughnut Season kicked off at the start of February 2017 and is still truckin' on, tangily, while Peach Doughnut Season, which traditionally has a shorter window, opened on July 19.

These overpacked beauties, which are crammed full of fruit-a-tude, are rightly famous in a region that is known worldwide for its superior doughnut-making arts.

The Donut Man recommends "calling ahead of time" to ensure you'll have one of these peachy and popular pastries. They're $4.25 each, and cash or check is the way to go regarding payment.

Calling ahead is good advice when one of the most glistening go-tos of summer gourmand goodies is the foodstuff in question.

People like the peach doughnut, they buy it, they eat it, and then, in a matter of weeks or months? Peach Doughnut Season is done, even before our fingertips have fully de-sticky'd.

U.S. military officials confirmed two Chinese fighter jets intercepted and almost collided with a U.S. military surveillance aircraft in the East China Sea this weekend, NBC News reported. 

One of the Chinese J-10 fighter jets flew underneath U.S. Navy EP-3 on Sunday and then suddenly was in front of the aircraft. The maneuver forced U.S. reconnaissance jet to take "evasive action" to avoid a collision, officials said.

U.S. military officials described the maneuver was unsafe and unprofessional as they have with similar past incidents earlier this year.  

Police are asking for the public’s help to find the parents of a 2-year-old boy found wandering the streets in North Hills Monday morning. 

The boy was found around 6 a.m. near Van Nuys Boulevard and Woodman Avenue in North Hills.

The child speaks only Spanish, and is described as having a medium complexion with short black hair and brown eyes. He is about 30 inches tall and weighs about 35 pounds, according to police.

He was found wearing a blue T-shirt, blue shorts and white socks.

Anyone with information on the boy’s identity is asked to call police at 818-838-9810.

Vegetarian burgers, those meat-free patties that are typically found in the frozen aisle at our local market, have become a quick-to-make, tummy-filling staple of many at-home cooks' menu plans. 

We call them "veggie" burgers, for short, and while they've long boasted a host of ingredients, from soy crumbles to kidney beans to various spices, few fans anticipated that a whole new sort of veggie burger would one day roll into appetite-stoking view.

The Impossible Burger, from Impossible Foods, recently did, and the "plant-based" vegetarian patty garnered a lot of attention among food writers for how similarly it compares to a meat burger in appearance, texture, and taste. But meat, it has none, not a whit, though where to find such an unusual meat-free burger became a bit of a question mark.

The answer? Umami Burger, known for its savory, zingily condimented meat burgers is now serving The Impossible Burger, a double-patty'd affair that comes piled high with a host of additions, including "caramelized onions, American cheese, miso-mustard, house spread, dill pickles, lettuce, and tomato..."

The price? It's $16.95. And while many people observe Meatless Mondays on the regular, note that The Impossible Burger is available every day of the week, though supply is limited, so arriving earlier in the day to place your order is a smart move.

That's not the only fresh thing on the Umami Burger line-up: Milkshakes made with spirits expressly for grown-up lovers of dessert drinks are also now available at Umami Burgers from The Grove to Costa Mesa. 

Fernet-Branca is the spirited star of the Hipster Hopper, a mint chocolate concoction, while bourbon is the main player in the French Fry Hot Tub, a milkshake that includes creme de cacao, caramel, coriander, salt, and vanilla ice cream.

It isn't every day, or even every year, that something savory like coriander winds up in a drinkable dessert, but then not ever restaurant serves a vegetarian burger that doesn't look like the traditional vegetarian burgers we know.

Are you observing Meatless Monday? How about Meatless Every Day?

Find your nearest Umami to try this buzzed-about non-burger burger, and, if you're over 21, and feeling that creamy beverage vibe, a grown-up, spirited milkshake, too.

Fifteen full nights of partial and full directional closures of the 405 Freeway near Los Angeles International Airport are coming as a result of construction of a bridge for the Crenshaw/LAX Line light rail project, Metro announced Monday.

The closures are set to begin on July 31 and will feature overnight full or partial directional closures from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. Monday to Friday, although the freeway will be fully open during the weekends.

The scheduled closures include:

• The northbound lanes will be completely closed between Century and La Tijera boulevards from July 31 to Aug. 4.
• Partial closure of the northboard and southbound high occupancy vehicle lanes and the 1 and 2 lanes from Aug. 7 to Aug. 11.
• The southbound lanes will be fully closed between the La Cienega off-ramp and La Tijera on-ramp Aug. 14 to Aug. 18.

Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca will avoid prison for a little bit longer after his attorneys on Monday asked a federal court to let him remain free while his corruption conviction is appealed.

Baca's attorneys filed the request with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals a day before the former sheriff was scheduled to report to prison for a three-year sentence for attempting to derail an FBI investigation.

Baca's surrender will be automatically delayed until the court rules, a process that could stretch into several weeks as the two sides are given time to provide their legal arguments.

"Sheriff Baca, who is 75 years old and suffering from Alzheimer's disease, is not a danger to the community, nor a flight risk," Baca's attorney Nathan Hochman said in a statement. "The law requires that Sheriff Baca receive bail pending appeal if he has raised substantial and debatable issues from his trial."

The U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles, which prosecuted Baca, declined comment on the development.

Baca asked a lower court last Thursday to be allowed to remain free while his conviction moves through the appeals process. That judge rejected his request, so his attorneys took their request to the higher court.

He was convicted in March of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and lying to investigators.

Prosecutors said he and top aides tried to hide an informant from FBI handlers investigating alleged jail beatings and other abuses.

A convicted felon who struck and robbed a deaf man outside a Riverside coffeehouse, and also committed a separate robbery, was sentenced today to 12 years in state prison.

Daniel Allen Estramera, 24, of Riverside pleaded guilty earlier this month to two counts of robbery. In exchange for his admissions, prosecutors dropped a sentence-enhancing allegation of targeting a victim with disabilities and a related count of witness intimidation.

Riverside County Superior Court Judge Helios Hernandez certified the terms of the plea agreement and imposed the sentence stipulated by the prosecution and defense.

In February 2016, Estramera's co-defendant, 24-year-old Dawone Anthony Finnell, pleaded guilty to robbery, being in possession of a controlled substance, presenting false identification to a law enforcement officer and a sentence-enhancing allegation of targeting a victim with disabilities. He was sentenced to 14 years behind bars.

Both men were arrested for the May 2015 attack on a man identified in court documents only as "Christian." However, after Estramera was taken into custody, he was also charged with an April 2015 robbery involving another Riverside man, though the circumstances of that offense were not readily available.

According to Riverside police, the assault and robbery happened about 1 a.m. on May 19, 2015, outside the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf on Mission Inn Avenue, just across from the Mission Inn Hotel & Spa.

The then-20-year-old victim was relaxing at a patio table, using his MacBook laptop, when the defendants approached him and casually engaged him in conversation, according to police. Investigators believe the defendants were sizing up the young man.

Estramera and Finnell briefly left the area, along with another man who was never identified, but the two defendants returned moments later and scanned their surroundings, according to security surveillance video posted by police to generate leads in the case.

Estramera turned and walked toward the victim's table, snapped shut his laptop and then threw several blows to the hapless man's face, knocking him out of his seat and onto the ground.

The tape showed the victim struggling to grab onto his computer as he fell, but letting go amid a flurry of punches from Finnell. The assailants initially fled with the laptop, but returned a second later to snatch more of the man's possessions as he lay on the ground.

After the tape was made public, investigators received a swirl of emails and calls.

According to court records, Estramera was a two-strike felon with convictions out of San Bernardino County for robbery and grand theft. Finnell had priors for auto theft, assault and robbery, records showed

Tears for Fears today postponed the band's last four tour dates, including shows that had been scheduled for this Friday and Saturday at Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles.

The band's Los Angeles concerts -- with Daryl Hall and John Oates also on the bill -- will be rescheduled, along with shows that had been set for tomorrow in San Jose and Wednesday at the Santa Barbara Bowl.

"Tears for Fears regretfully announces the postponement of their last four U.S. tour dates, due to a family emergency," according to a statement released by the band. "All dates will be rescheduled, with details to follow shortly."

Solomon Mathenge was the driver who rammed into a mother and her two daughters one early morning in Hollywood in August of 2012. The crash killed Saida Mendez and her two young daughters, Hilda and Stephanie.

"Three people died in that accident," Solomon Mathenge said. "The question is why."

Last Friday, a jury answered his question, ruling that the Nissan car company must pay $25 million to the families involved in the collision because Solomon Mathenge's car had a faulty braking system.

Solomon Mathenge was initially charged with manslaughter, until the district attorney found out about his Infinity QX56 SUV's braking problem.

"The Cruz family, a mother and two daughters, lost their lives," said Michael Mathenge, Solomon Mathenge's son. "That's what we want everybody to know, and that it was Nissan's fault and they had a chance to recall (the vehicle) and they didn't do it.

Infinity - Nissan's parent company - denies there was anything wrong with the braking system and argued in court that Solomon Mathenge mistakenly hit the gas pedal instead of the brake.

"Nissan is disappointed with the verdict and will assess its options for next steps, including appeal," the company said in a statement to NBC4. "While we are deeply sympathetic to the families affected, Nissan believes the evidence clearly shows that the Infiniti QX56 was not cause of this unfortunate accident."

Solomon Mathenge says he wishes the federal government would step in, considering that the verdict does not require Nissan to do anything except pay the families involved.

Attorney Paul Kiesel said the jury stopped short of levying punitive damages to the auto manufacturer, but that Nissan should take the $25 million judgment as a call to action.

"They still have the opportunity, and quite frankly, the obligation - in my view - to bring these vehicles back and to repair them now," Kiesel said.

Nissan, however, says it believes in the integrity of its braking system, meaning that the vehicles in question - 2004 to 2008 Nissan Titans and Armadas, and the Infinity QX56 SUV - are still on the road.

LA County Sheriffs and the South Gate Police Department are looking for the gunman responsible for the fatal shooting of 38-year-old Hugo Avila.

The victim was pronounced dead at the scene of the shooting, which was reported at approximately 4:55 p.m on Monday.

The shooting took place on the 9200 block of California Avenue, according to Deputy Juanita Navarro-Suarez of the Sheriff's Information Bureau.

Paramedics were directed to an office at a smog check business where Avila was found dead.

He was the father of a two-year-old boy.

Anyone with information regarding this homicide is encouraged to contact the South Gate Police Department at (323)563-5400.

A video of a confrontation between a street vendor and a couple on a Hollywood street has gone viral, already racking up nearly 1.5 million views on Facebook.

Los Angeles Police Department officers responded to a report of a battery investigation at 6000 West Romaine Street in Hollywood on July 17.

Vendor Benjamin Ramirez says he is the vendor whose cart was flipped after a couple in the neighborhood told him he shouldn't be there because he didn’t have a permit.

Ramirez said the neighbor in the video had yelled at him before, but the situation escalated last Monday when the neighbor returned with a woman.

"He was yelling at me 'get out of my way' … that he wanted to get by," Ramirez said.

He said he moved his cart, but the neighbor wasn't satisfied and appeared to point a stun gun at him.

The vendor said he got "scared" so he threw chili powder in the man’s face. The powder appears to irritate the man's face. And when Ramirez grabs an object and raises it, the woman yells.

That woman declined to speak with Telemundo 52, NBC4’s sister station, and NBC4's attempts to reach the man in the video have been unsuccessful.

Officers took a report for vandalism, however no arrests were made.

Both the vendor and aggressor are due in court later this week, according to the LAPD. If the aggressor fails to appear, a warrant for his arrest will be issued. This is a civil case, police added.

A federal judge in Detroit Monday halted the deportation of more than 1,400 Iraqi nationals, NBC News reported.

The Iraqis, many of whom are part of their home country's Christian minority, could face "grave harm and possible death" if sent back to Iraq, U.S. District Court Judge Mark Goldsmith ruled, granting a request for preliminary injunction.

Goldsmith said the government's position to deport them is "inconsistent" with the Constitution.

The government targeted the Iraqis, who have criminal convictions or overstayed their visas, over long-standing deportation orders. More than half had been in the United States for more than a decade because Iraq refused to issue travel documents, the ruling says.

A shirtless man dodged police officers in the middle of a busy freeway before they Tased him. Hetty Chang reports for the NBC4 News at 11 on Monday, July 24, 2017.

Authorities Tuesday were investigating whether the robbery of a Huntington Beach Chipotle restaurant is connected to a series of restaurant robberies throughout Orange County.

Police responded to a report of a robbery in progress around 9:40 p.m. Monday at the restaurant located at 16241 Beach Blvd., said Huntington Beach police Sgt. Tom Weizoerick. The gunman fled before police arrived.

The man took at least $500 and fled out the front door going south on Beach Boulevard, Weizoerick said. A containment perimeter was established but police were unable to locate the man, who was described as wearing a white shirt, a baseball cap and green pants, Weizoerick said.

Multiple agencies will share information from the robbery investigations to determine if they're connected, Weizoerick said.