I-Team Investigations

Southern California heat waves could damage your car. Here’s what to check if you are hitting the road. The I-Team’s Lolita Lopez reports for the NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on Friday, Sep. 6, 2024.

Experts recommend drivers check several things before hitting the road as dangerously hot weather can do a number on vehicles.

Southern California homeowners said their ADU contractor took money but never completed the work.

Two men were stopped on Coldwater Canyon Avenue after at least one home was reportedly burglarized in Sherman Oaks.

Prosecutors and defense lawyers filed a joint request Tuesday to postpone the trials of Dr. Salvador Plasencia and Jasveen Sangha until next year.

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Friday denied a defense motion that called for the dismissal of manslaughter charges brought against them. The I-Team’s Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 30, 2024.

Defense lawyers for the officers facing criminal charges for the on-duty killing of Christopher Deandre Mitchell in 2018 unsuccessfully argued the case should have been dismissed.

Andrea Morris collapsed at work and was placed in a medically induced coma after her sudden cardiac arrest and lack of oxygen to her brain.

A stretch of Hollywood Boulevard just east of the famous Walk of Fame had been covered with homeless tents for years, until LA was about to host a huge event that brought thousands of people to the area.

Homeless encampments that had been around for years in Hollywood disappeared days before a big event. The I-Team’s Joel Grover reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. 

Federal authorities in Los Angeles were expected to announce Wednesday arrests and prosecutions of foreign nationals suspected of taking-part in so-called ‘tourist burglary’ rings, in which organized groups of thieves visit the United States on easy-to-get tourist visas and break-in to homes, law enforcement sources told NBC4’s I-...

NBC Los Angeles’ I-Team has found some stores have sold more winning lottery tickets than others. The I-Team’s Lolita Lopez reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024.

At the Los Angeles County Child Protection Hotline headquarters in downtown LA, social workers are taking more than 160,000 calls on any given year.   Jennie Feria, the chief deputy director of the county’s Department of Children and Family Services, tells the I-Team calls that once would end when it was determined there wasn’t a ne...