Detective Diane Webb was determined. The Grim Sleeper, an anonymous killer who'd stopped murdering for 13 years, had resurfaced, and she had a plan for tripping him up. It was the fall of 2008, and she happened to show Detective Lauren Rauch,...
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LOS ANGELES - A group representing 188 California cities Wednesday condemned a proposed state budget as an "irresponsible Ponzi scheme" and threatened to sue the state if the legislature enacts it.
The League of California Cities presented its plan at a...
Los Angeles' budget crisis is likely to mean it will take longer for firefighters to respond to calls for help.
Faced with $56 million in budget cuts, the Los Angeles Fire Department plans to enact rolling brownouts that temporarily take fire engines out...
Threatening to scuttle California's budget deal, Assembly Republican leader Sam Blakeslee accused Democrats on Tuesday of double-crossing him with an emerging plan to reduce the state's prison population.
In an e-mail to colleagues titled "Budget Double...
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Legislative leaders and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger defused an issue today that threatened to blow up a fragile compromise over the plan to erase the state's $26.3-billion...
Reporting from Sacramento - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders on Wednesday held together their plan to close California's $26.3-billion deficit by delaying until next month a vote on a controversial provision to reduce the amount of time that...
WASHINGTON (AP) - The country needs more secure driver's licenses to thwart terrorists, and a new Obama administration program supported by governors across the country would do that and save money, Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said Wednesday.
If...
While other state workers endure unpaid furloughs, California Highway Patrol officers are getting more money.
It's not much. "Less than 1 percent," said Jon Hamm, head of the California Association of Highway Patrolmen, which represents 7,000 sworn...
The LAPD Honor Guard folds a flag for the family members of LAPD...
People in the Los Angeles metropolitan area have got used to talk by Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca on releasing prisoners each time when there is a budget fight, but this time, the "wolf" will really come.
Baca, who leads the largest county sheriff...
LOS ANGELES - A federal judge late Friday released the Los Angeles Police Department from an eight-year settlement to reduce corruption and police brutality, finding that it had made substantial reforms.
Under the decision, a federally appointed monitor...
LOS ANGELES -- A federal judge on Friday released the Los Angeles Police Department from a decade-long consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice that was aimed at ensuring reforms after a corruption scandal.
The city had been forced into the...
A federal judge Friday lifted the controversial consent decree that for more than eight years had guided an independent monitor overseeing sweeping reforms of the Los Angeles Police Department imposed after the Rampart corruption scandal.
U.S. District...
U.S. District Court Judge Gary A. Feess freed the Los Angeles Police Department from most of the federal oversight that has been in place since the Rampart corruption scandals of the early 1990s. "When the Decree was entered, LAPD was a troubled department...
Declaring that the Los Angeles Police Department has reformed itself significantly after decades of corruption and brutality...
After learning of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to slash prison guard's salaries by another 10 percent, the union has authorized a strike vote, according to Paco Villa's Correction Blog.
Union members question how the governor can determine which...
California cities and counties will take a multibillion-dollar hit to help close the state's massive budget gap.
Closed-door negotiations between Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders are targeting city and county coffers to help bridge a $...
Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn has proposed that the council consider imposing a tax on sales of medical marijuana.
Los Angeles has hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries. As California's local and state governments look to plug their...
If OKd by the City Council, the plan would shift protection of internal data and public records from the city to the Internet giant. The LAPD has raised concerns about shielding arrest information.
Frustrated by a slow and antiquated...
A major budget battle is brewing between Orlando City Hall and the city's cops, with administrators taking aim at a favorite perk: the patrol cars that officers drive home at the end of the day.
Mayor Buddy Dyer's administration has threatened to more...
Lawrence, Kansas - For the second year in a row, the city is struggling to reach agreement with police officers and firefighters on new labor contracts.
The Lawrence Police Officers Association and the Lawrence Professional Firefighters chapter have...
Since January 31, when Palisades Charter High School senior Nick Rosser died in an automobile accident on Palisades Drive in the Highlands, the Los Angeles West Traffic Division and numerous residents have partnered to discourage speeding.
'I am really...
Following a holiday weekend marred with violence, Hollenbeck officers quietly move into new Boyle Heights headquarters.
A long delayed move into new headquarters only added to the workload for the officers of the Los Angeles Police...
Brian and Shaleena Cabral, a young couple from Bakersfield, thought Wednesday would be the day they would put a 10-month-long headache behind them.
What started as a "fix-it" ticket for an expired registration had ballooned into a $1,600 fine for a...
After learning of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan to slash prison guard's salaries by another 10 percent, the union has authorized a strike vote, according to Paco Villa's Corrections Blog.
Union members...
A federal judge says he needs at least two more days to decide whether the Los Angeles Police Department is ready to be released from federal oversight.
U.S. District Judge Gary Feess issued a brief order Wednesday extending a consent decree between the...
The total number of killings in the city of Los Angeles is down by nearly a third through the midway point of 2009 compared with the same period last year, the Los Angeles Police Department reported today.
The homicide figures, 137 killings between Jan...
Multiple-death shootings, rise in traffic-related deaths contribute to increase; fatalities still remain low when compared with recent years
WASHINGTON, July 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - After reaching a nearly 50-year low in 2008, the...
Long a poster child of high crime, Oakland is preparing to lay off nearly a fifth of its police force just as it has turned the corner on crime, part of a national trend in the recession.
This city of 400,000 said last month it would cut 140 officers...
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