Like the state of California, the city of Los Angeles is involved in a seemingly endless game of budget balancing as it looks once again at what appears to be a built-in shortfall. Last week, the City Council cut $74 million from its $7.2 billion budget and was...
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• Police Chief William Bratton announced that overall gang crime will finish down for the year. He added there is going to be an announcement regarding a major gang initiative at the end of January. Chief Bratton also said the Department is the most diverse...
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Los Angeles City is facing major financial challenges over the next few years that will affect many facets of each of our lives. Mayor Villaraigosa and other City leaders are asking for your input on the performance and necessity of the services provided by the...
Two LAPD officers hold up posters from the annual anti-graffiti contest.
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City Councilman Bill Rosendahl and L.A. Police Chief William Bratton hosted a town hall meeting attended by more than 300 people last Thursday to address concerns about the loss of police officers from the West and Pacific Police Divisions due to the opening of...
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HACIENDA HEIGHTS (CNS) - A California Highway Patrol officer was fatallystruck by a vehicle as he directed traffic at the scene of a previous accident on the rain-slick Pomona (60) Freeway in Hacienda Heights early today, authorities said. The fatal crash,...
HACIENDA HEIGHTS -- A 29 year old California Highway Patrol officer was struck and killed as he directed traffic early Monday morning on the rain-slick Pomona (60...
LOS ANGELES - A prosecutor has sued the Association of Deputy District Attorneys, alleging that the bargaining representative for the county's deputy prosecutors illegally changed its bylaws and canceled October elections.
Peter A. Burke, assistant head...
Targeting L.A.'s 18th Street gangNew laws and a lawsuit give Los Angeles prosecutors have new tools to go after the gang and its ill-gotten gains.
Part of Los Angeles is run, according to allegations in a lawsuit filed Monday, by a man...
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - For the first time in 25 years, the city of Los Angeles might lay off workers for budgetary reasons. Raising the fee to spay or neuter pets, adding fewer left-turn arrows on city streets and selling under-used fire stations and libraries...
In another grim economic warning Friday, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said an additional $30 million in cuts will be needed this month to balance the city's projected $7.2 billion budget this year.
In a lengthy memo to the City Council outlining the second...
Villaraigosa is negotiating voluntary retirement plan with L.A. employee unionsThe mayor says he has told the personnel department to come up with a plan for layoffs in case the city and the unions cannot reach a deal.
Hoping to avert...
Two gang members have been arrested in the shooting death of Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Juan Abel Escalante, who was gunned down outside his parents' Cypress Park home in August as he prepared to go to work, law enforcement officials announced this...
Simi Valley cops get 7 percent pay hike
Raise to cost city extra $1.35 million
Simi Valley police officers will see a 7.05 percent raise in total pay in their December paychecks as part of a contract negotiated four years ago, the city announced...
An angry and defiant City Controller Laura Chick, rebuffed by the City Council in her request for $100,000 to hire a private attorney, said Wednesday she will not back down from her legal fight with City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo.
While the council voted...
Crime in the city of Los Angeles has declined about 3 percent and gang-related crime has dropped 11 percent compared to this time last year, police Chief William Bratton said today.
As of Dec. 6, homicides were down 8.7 percent, rapes down 14 percent,...
Feb. 15, 2008: Fellow officers carry the casket of Randal Simmons of the Los...
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Los Angeles police today released a photo and composite drawing of a suspect believed responsible for sexual assaults on two victims, including a 13-year-old girl, in building stairwells. The first attack occurred about 10 a.m. on Nov. 7....
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Crime in the city of Los Angeles has declined about 3 percent and gang-related crime has dropped 11 percent compared to this time last year, police Chief William Bratton said today.
As of Dec. 6, homicides were down 8.7 percent, rapes...
He joined Monday with the mayors of New York and Chicago to outline a nearly $180 billion public works program. In a plea to the Obama administration to funnel public works money through city government, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa joined Monday with...
City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo's suit targetscriminals' homes and assets. Defendants include Mexican Mafia leaders Ruben'Nite Owl' Castro and Frank 'Puppet'
Why Can't CopsEnforce Immigration Laws?
LAPD officers will get a moreactive role in apprehending illegal alien gang members if a...
Teens visiting social networking sites or who are blogging should be educated about what not to say online. Giving out birth dates, home addresses, parents' names and school name is enough for someone to order your child's birth certificate and begin the ID...
In July 2008, Tanya Allen, 44, of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, was informed that her teen son's identity could have been compromised due to the theft of a school district laptop. The district paid for her son's credit monitoring service and Allen learned that her son...
How do you find out if your child's identity has compromised? It's not easy and, unfortunately, a minor's credit report can't be checked online. Technically, minors aren't allowed to enter into binding contracts and aren't supposed to have existing, online...
There are no comprehensive studies tracking the number of children with stolen identities or adults whose identities were stolen as children, but the Federal Trade Commission reports that 10,835 identity theft complaints were reported on behalf of victims under...
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Under-18 identity theft on the rise
Infants responsible for $600,000 mortgages. Teens unknowingly carrying six credit cards in five states. College students unable to get loans because...
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