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The deaths of four Oakland police officers gunned down in the line of duty Saturday afternoon are undisputable, immutable, irrevocable proof of the chaotic level of predatory violence on the streets of this city.

Even as crime dipped in the first three...

Lovelle Mixon spent much of the last decade cycling in and out of state prison. His last stint ended in November, when he was released on parole.

By the time Oakland motorcycle officers pulled over the 26-year-old former janitor Saturday afternoon, he...

Former 1970s radical Sara Jane Olson planned to avoid speaking out after being freed from prison because of concern for her family's safety, her husband said Thursday. Olson, who returned to her adopted state on Wednesday after being freed from a California...

In one of the deadliest police shootings in California history, three Oakland officers were killed and a fourth gravely wounded in two incidents Saturday that began with a routine traffic stop, police officials said.

Law enforcement officers taking cover...

Oakland police announced today that a fourth officer, gravely injured in a shootout this weekend with a parolee, had died. The father of Officer John Hege, however, said that his son was brain-dead and on life support. Family members, he said, were planning to...

(CNN) -- At least three police officers in Oakland, California, were shot and killed Saturday afternoon after a man pulled over for a routine traffic stop opened fire and then battled SWAT officers at a nearby building, police said.

The man, a 27-year-...

The first time I encountered the word "kleptomaniac," I asked my mother what it meant.

She said, "That's what they call it when a rich person steals something."

And now, thanks to Sara Jane Olson and her return to the spacious house and gracious...

Services will be held March 30 for retired Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge Harold Crowder, who died Monday at age 83.

Crowder, who lived in Nevada in recent years, died with family members and friends present at a family member's home in Lancaster, a...

By Bob Poole
Los Angeles Times

David Briggs could always be counted on to help Los Angeles cops start their day on the right foot.

For 21 years, Briggs was the man at the downtown police headquarters who put the spit-polish gleam on...

He helped mow down a cop in a hail of machine gun fire as the officer picked up his son from day care.

For his part in the 1985 cop killing in Canoga Park, Voltaire Alphonse Williams should languish behind bars for life, family and associates of the...

LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A state panel denied parole today for a man convicted of conspiracy in the Halloween 1985 shooting death of a Los Angeles police detective who was ambushed while picking up his 6-year-old son from day care.

Voltaire Alphonse Williams...

In one life, Sara Jane Olson was a doting, upper-class soccer mom who drove a Plymouth minivan and was a dynamite gourmet cook. In another, she was a terrorist-and a totem of the age of violent radicalism that erupted during the 1970s. Olson - nee Kathleen Ann...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Former 1970s radical Sara Jane Olson left California for her adopted home state of Minnesota on Wednesday, a day after she was paroled from state prison.

Her attorney, David Nickerson, said she boarded a flight from Sacramento and...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles police union says it has written Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asking him to look into the legality of Sara Jane Olson's release to the state of Minnesota for her parole.

The Los Angeles Police Protective League said in a...

Los Angeles Times 11:28 AM | March 16, 2009

Two Minnesota legislators introduced a resolution today asking California to keep ex-Symbionese Liberation Army member and fugitive Sara Jane Olson from serving supervised parole in their state.

State...