Headlines & News Releases
Associated Press
How much discretion California's law enforcement officials have in issuing concealed weapons permits is the subject of a federal lawsuit with national overtones.
LA Times blog
An eight-hour standoff between LAPD officers and a man who said he was armed with a gun inside a room at the Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles ended early Thursday when police broke down the door and arrested him.
LA Times
Ballot returns show six officeholders fending off challengers. Nine of 10 ballot measures are winning.
NY Times
Sgt. Mike Abdeen, on duty in the county Sheriff’s Department, got a call last year from a Muslim father who was worried about his son.
LA Times blog
Sulema Wilborn was driving with her husband, Jerriell Wilborn, along Slauson Avenue in South Los Angeles in August when police said an attacker fired a gun for no apparent reason and fatally wounded the couple.
Government Technology
The FBI’s new technology platform for storing and identifying fingerprints is now operational, the bureau announced Tuesday, March 8.
Jewish Journal
Four Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) bomb squad technicians are visiting Israel to train with their counterparts in the Israeli National Police Bomb Squad.
LA Times blog
Crime reports are up significantly for the latest week in 10 L.A. neighborhoods, according to an analysis of LAPD data by the Los Angeles Times’ Crime L.A. database.
LA Times blog
Authorities in Los Angeles said Tuesday that scam artists pretending to be health inspectors have been targeting area restaurants seeking to get private information.
LA Daily News
While most city agencies are facing another year of cost-cutting, the LAPD would get an additional $56 million for fiscal 2011-12 under a preliminary budget approved Tuesday by the civilian Police Commission.
LA Times blog
Los Angeles police were seeking the public's help Monday after a shooting in Watts left one man dead and a woman critically wounded.
LA Times blog
Facing a $5.5-million budget shortfall, the Inland Empire city of Colton will lay off eight police officers by the end of April and has continued to negotiate for concessions from unions representing the city’s firefighters, police dispatchers and utility workers.
Associated Press
The U.S. Department of Transportation and Consumer Reports magazine have released a poll that illustrates how widespread distracted driving is among young people and a plan to help fight it.
ABC7
An LAPD helicopter made an unexpected landing on Monday at the Chatsworth reservoir.
San Jose Mercury News
San Jose's pending deal with the firefighters union to slash pay and benefits to help close a huge budget gap marks the most dramatic thaw in labor relations since Mayor Chuck Reed took office in 2007 railing about runaway employee costs.
Sacramento Bee
From state legislatures to Congress to tea party rallies, a vocal backlash is rising against what are perceived as too-generous retirement benefits for state and local government workers. However, that widespread perception doesn't match reality.
LA Weekly
More than 2000 people rallied outside L.A. City Hall last weekend to support public employees who are under fire in Wisconsin. Afterward, L.A. Councilman Bernard Parks issued a statement of support, in which he tried to dispel "the common misperception out there that I am anti-union."
LA Times blog
Forget texting and driving or talking on the phone and driving: Those extremely dangerous habits are old hat. The new worry, says a survey released by State Farm this week, is what the insurance company cleverly calls "webbing while driving."
LA Times blog
Los Angeles Police Department detectives have submitted to prosecutors their investigation into a school police officer whose shooting hoax set off a massive manhunt, Chief Charlie Beck said Thursday.
LAist
Taggers who leave their marks on public property will soon find their handiwork showing up in a new kind of gallery.
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