The gunman accused of trying to assassinate Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing six others, Jared Lee Loughner, was not on any government watch list that might have warned someone not to sell him a gun or caused police to investigate his unstable...
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Los Angeles police detectives, with few leads to go on in their search for the killer of a young man gunned down in the parking lot of a North Hollywood taco stand, reminded the public today that there is a $50,000 reward in the case.
Last Oct. 17, about...
Two recent fatal hit-and-run accidents in West L.A. have prompted police to ask for help finding the drivers.
Across the Southland, hit-and-runs occur every week.
"Unfortunately, these kind of accidents happen all too often," said LAPD Detective...
Crime reports are up significantly for the latest week...
It's crisis time again in Los Angeles, and city leaders are considering how to slash tens of millions of dollars from the budget. Both Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the City Council agree: Public safety should be the last service cut.
But the definition...
Three years ago, in my very first column here at Pajamas Media, I wrote about the consequences that would result if federal and local authorities proceeded with implementing one provision of the...
Tuesday could be another dark date etched onto the timeline of Camden's slow demise or just another setback on its rise to stability.
Barring last-minute negotiations or unlikely heroics from the state, a city considered one of the country's most...
Chula Vista leaders and representatives of the city's Police Officers' Association have reached a tentative agreement that could avert pending officer layoffs, according to an officers' association announcement.
Members of the officers' association are...
The Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy who was shot in the face by an East L.A. gang member came out of sedation Thursday after the first of several planned surgeries to reconstruct his face, an official said.
Doctors initially feared that Deputy...
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Crime reports are up significantly for the latest week in six L.A....
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Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy was shot in the face Tuesday night in East Los Angeles after he and his training officer were attacked by a reputed gang member on parole, authorities said.
The gunman was fatally shot by the training officer after an...
The Sacramento County grand jury has taken a snapshot of how budget cuts have hurt a wide-range of government programs - and it's not pretty.
Entitled "Sacramento County under Duress: Problems and Opportunities," the report released today highlights how...
The Los Angeles City Council has scheduled what's expected to be a heated debate Wednesday over the city's deteriorating finances.
With tax revenues still flat and health care and pension costs soaring, L.A. faces a projected budget deficit of $350...
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A challenger to Los Angeles City Councilman Bernard C. Parks boasted Wednesday that she has secured the backing of two major public employee unions in the March 8 election, including one that represents workers at the Department of Water and Power.
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More than 60 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that the police were not entitled to enter a residence without a warrant merely because they smelled burning opium.
On Wednesday, at the...
Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday called for a major shift of state prisoners to the county jail system, a plan aimed at saving the state money, reducing overcrowded prisons and attempting to better handle juveniles and low-level offenders who cycle through the...
Dozens of members of the Los Angeles Police Department's anti-gang unit are opting out and are returning to regular patrols over a requirement to reveal personal financial information.
In an effort to prevent corruption within the department's narcotics...
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa sent a letter Monday urging the City Council to move ahead with his plan to get budget revenue by leasing nine parking...
It's now become nearly impossible for law enforcement agencies to remain uninvolved in social media. However much you might try to avoid it, it's out there and its use is growing.
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Dozens of anti-gang police officers across the city are quitting their assignments over a requirement to reveal personal financial information under strict anti-corruption rules, The Associated Press has learned.
Gang units in some of the city's most...
Crime reports are up significantly for the latest...
Los Angeles is now one of the safest big cities in the nation. Once derided as the nation's capital of gang violence and imagined as a violent metropolis of drive-by shootings and rampant crime, L.A. has managed a dramatic turnaround.
According to...
BICYCLE THIEF: Streetsblog Los Angeles looks at how some of the new year's new laws will affect urban movement. First up: The value threshold for grand theft charges must now be at least $950 (previously $400), meaning that bicycle thieves could face fewer...
Citing a drop in major crimes for the ninth straight year, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa pressured the City Council Thursday to back his plan to continue hiring LAPD officers.
"Make no mistake about it, there is a direct correlation between the drop in...
California officials are investigating a state prison inmate they suspect used a Facebook account to post messages to his mother and others from behind bars.
Fredrick Garner had access to a cell phone, which is forbidden in prison, and appears to have...
Los Angeles police detectives said Thursday they are investigating at least four missing persons cases as a result of publicizing photos seized from the South Los Angeles property of alleged "Grim Sleeper" serial slaying suspect Lonnie David Franklin Jr.
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