Three was the magic number yesterday for Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley, who was sworn in for his third term at a 3 p.m. ceremony, becoming the third person to serve three consecutive terms in the office's history.
A standing-room only crowd...
A 7-year-old boy was critically injured Monday night in South Los Angeles when he was run over by a motorist who fled the scene, police said.
The boy had chased a ball into the street in the 6900 block of Estrella Avenue about 6 p.m. and was hit by a...
The mayor says he plans to stay in Los Angeles and focus on his reelection campaign and the city's pressing issues.Despite increased speculation that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa may be heading to Washington, he said Monday that he would not be...
SYLMAR - Detectives are asking for the public's help in identifying the person responsible for the shooting death of 21-year-old Luis Morales.
The incident began Sunday, Nov. 30 at 12 a.m. as Morales was attending a birthday party in the 12900 block of...
LOS ANGELES -- Shrinking budgets are forcing such cities as Phoenix, Portland, Ore., and San Diego to make deep cuts, including to police. But Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton has grown his department with a persuasive argument about the financial costs...
Ethel Bradley, who was the longest-reigning first lady of Los Angeles as the wife of the city's first black mayor, Tom Bradley, has died. She was 89.
Bradley, whose husband held office from 1973 to 1993, died Tuesday at Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles...
L.A. County sheriff's deputy's killing remains a mysteryDetectives hope a $95,000 reward will get witnesses to step forward in the possible gang-related shooting in August in Cypress Park.
When Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Juan...
A brazen band of thieves made up of 11 young men have been charged with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in cars, jewelry and electronics from dozens of San Fernando Valley residents over the last two months, police said today.
The suspects,...
New Orleans earned the unfortunate top city ranking in crime, according to a Congressional Quarterly book based off 2007 statistics from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program. Los Angeles came out at 158 on the list of 385 cities analyzed for murders, rapes...
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A $50,000 reward was offered today for information that helps police solve the killing of a man who was gunned down in a drive-by attack in Highland Park about eight months ago. Freddy Carranza, 26, of Highland Park, was fatally wounded...
L.A. City Council looks at a hiring freeze for police, fireCouncil members' comments suggest Villaraigosa's pledge to hire more police officers may be at risk.
The Los Angeles City Council on Monday took its first crack at addressing a $...
At the behest of the LAPD, this morning at 5 A.M. we went out as a URM team and alerted folks sleeping on the street that the LAPD right was right behind us carrying out maximum enforcement of a code that prohibits sleeping on the streets after before 9:00 P.M...
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - The decrease in violent crime on Skid Row over the last two years as a result of the Safer Cities Initiative has been widely reported and applauded. But until recently, few realized that as crime has come down, the number of police...
Los Angeles: On Wednesday November 5, 2008, in a show of appreciation, the Community Action Team from the Hollenbeck area hosted a...
California Commissioner Steve Poizner has deployed more than two dozen California Department of Insurance (CDI) fraud division investigators to assist local law enforcement at the Sayre Fire in Southern California.
CDI contacted local law enforcement and...
SAN DIEGO - Border Patrol agents announced Monday that they apprehended a Mexican fugitive wanted in connection with a homicide in Los Angeles.
Guadalupe Torres-Rangel, 41, was with four other Mexican nationals in a remote area near Dulzura about four...
L.A., Glendale seek injunction against Toonerville gang
The lawsuit seeks to stop gang members from engaging in criminal and nuisance activities in areas of Northeast Los Angeles, Glendale, and Sunland and Tujunga.
Lawyers for Los...
Los Angeles, CA, November 14, 2008 ... The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today honored First Assistant Chief Jim McDonnell of the Los Angeles Police Department with the ADL Chief Giovanni Palatucci Courageous Leadership Award, which recognizes Italian and...
With the Oakridge Park mobile home development in the San Fernando Valley looking as if it had been "hit by a nuclear bomb," and 600 of its 700 closely packed houses burned down to soft piles of ash, the Los Angeles Police Department declared the Sayre Fire a...
Lock Up Your Home Before You Evacuate, Police Urge
Some residents are leaving doors and windows unlocked or open because they mistakenly believe that will help firefighters. Such action, however, helps looters to gain access and fire to easily...
Central Division Capt. Jodi Wakefield was involved in a 2005...
The rise in assaults on officers is viewed with skepticism from opponents of the Safer Cities Initiative. Homeless advocacy group the Los Angeles Community Action Network, or LA CAN, which has criticized the department for what they argue is an unnecessarily...
Assaults on Skid Row Police Officers Triple In Two Years
Rise Comes Even as Violent Crime in Area Falls
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - Assaults on Central Division police officers have more than tripled in the past...
LOS ANGELES -- Police have arrested a man accused of going on a drive-by shooting with a baby in the back seat.
The suspect opened fire on three people around 3 p.m. Wednesday on Pinafore Street in South Los Angeles, said Capt. James Craig of the Los...
San Diego, Ca: The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and Parade Magazine announced today the LAPD's Counter Terrorism and Criminal Intelligence Bureau and Detective Lillie Franklin are among 10 recipients to receive honorable mention awards...
BEVERLY HILLS (CNS) - A celebrity premier screening will be held tonight for a Hallmark Channel movie based on the relationship between a homeless woman living on Skid Row and a Los Angeles police officer.
The film, 'Accidental Friendship,'' will be...
Driver with toddler in car is arrested in Baldwin Village drive-by
The man opened fire on three people about 3 p.m., police say. No one was hurt.
A gunman, driving with a toddler in the back seat of his car, opened fire on three...
Police investigate three separate Westside home robberies
The incidents are unrelated, police say, but all involved confrontations with people in the homes.
Police are investigating three separate home invasion robberies on the...
Teen guilty of first-degree murder of police officer
Penifoti Taeotui, 18, was convicted Monday in the shooting death of Oceanside Police Officer Dan Bessant, which prosecutors argued was gang-related.
A teenager was found guilty...
