Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday launched Disaster Corps, what he called a first-in-the-nation program to coordinate volunteer response to disasters.
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties were awarded a total of...
A California Highway Patrol officer was struck and killed Sunday when a car veered onto...
Lawyers for Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa named the Los Angeles Dodgers as the most frequent donor of his free tickets, but they struggled to identify many of the other entities that have let him appear at athletic and cultural events without paying,...
A White House showdown with the state of Arizona over its tough new immigration law is likely to unfold next week, when the Obama administration is expected to file a lawsuit aimed at blocking the state's bid to curb illegal immigration on its own, according to...
The demise of a sweeping jobs and tax bill in the U.S. Senate this week dealt a stiff blow to California as it struggles to recover from the recession.
Hundreds of thousands of jobless residents will see their unemployment checks cut off. The deficit-...
A law requiring police to obtain a search warrant before tracking Americans' cell phones may imperil criminal investigations and endanger children's lives, a law enforcement representative told Congress this week.
Obtaining a search warrant when...
Drivers in California who cause crashes may find their pocketbooks dented as well, courtesy of local fire departments.
Running a red light is the automotive equivalent of playing Russian roulette, and it costs the lives of nearly 800 U.S. motorists - red-light runners and innocent victims alike - each year.
That number comes from the Insurance Institute for Highway...
Law enforcement officials said they will follow an "event action plan" Friday intended to ensure peace and safety as fans mark the first anniversary of Michael Jackson's death.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Thursday he will release records on Friday spelling out the official duties he performed at dozens of concerts, sports events and awards shows that he attended free of charge.
The mayor's practice of accepting...
Family members won't get to visit inmates this weekend at California's 33 state prisons due to a budget-slashing measure by the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
It's the first time inmate visits have been cut on weekends because of...
Los Angeles International Airport police sometimes leave LAX to help officers in other cities.
Los Angeles radio station KNX-AM reports Thursday that airport officers were dispatched at least 17 times in about the past year-and-a-half to aid police in...
Eight-year-old Steve Huerta held his mother's hand tight as the helicopter took off Thursday morning.
At the heart of the current controversy involving free tickets at Los Angeles City Hall, one question stands out: If Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa attended big-time entertainment events because he was conducting city business, why did he not keep better records of...
The Obama administration announced Wednesday that it will station an aerial drone in Texas as part of its stepped-up surveillance of criminal trafficking along the Mexican border.
Los Angeles' red-light camera program was temporarily exempted Wednesday from the city's contracting boycott of Arizona prompted by that state's new immigration enforcement policy.
City Council members, noting that the Los Angeles Police Department backs...
The San Francisco Police Officers Association has ratified a package of cost-cutting labor concessions, with members voting 64 percent in favor, union president Gary Delagnes said today.
That leaves Transport Workers Union Local 250-A, which represents...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to cut the pay of state workers to minimum wage if a timely budget accord is not reached, according to a memo sent Wednesday from the director of the governor's Department of Personnel Administration to state agency and...
Police working in some of Orange County's most difficult and dangerous neighborhoods have had their overtime pay cut to nothing as the city strains to make ends meet.
The city of Los Angeles is adding more than 100 surveillance cameras in four public housing projects.
The Los Angeles Police Department may not have the manpower to have patrol cars make a permanent presence in known crime-plagued areas, like the...
Investigators say "Metro Transit Assassins," also known as "MTA" is an elite tagging crew with only ten members. The crew uses the Metropolitan Transportation Authority logo and their favorite tool is a spray can.
MTA's favorite tagging spots are on...
The Highway Patrol union that negotiated the most generous pension formula a decade ago, a trendsetter for police and firefighters statewide, has tentatively agreed to reduce pensions for new hires.
The "three at 50" formula, providing 3 percent of final...
Maywood, a small working-class community south of downtown Los Angeles, plans to lay off all its employees, disband its Police Department and turn over its entire municipal operations to a neighbor - an action that appears to be without precedent among...
As the effective date of Arizona's new immigration law nears, new concerns are being raised by municipal officials about how to effectively enforce it without creating a legal and financial quagmire.
At a public forum Tuesday, two southeast Valley mayors...
A second investigative agency confirmed Tuesday that it has begun looking into Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's practice of accepting thousands of dollars in free tickets, and the mayor found himself again being pressed by reporters at events meant to...
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Consideration of a proposed exemption from Los Angeles' boycott of Arizona to allow continuation of the city's red light camera program has been postponed until Wednesday.
The City Council had been scheduled to consider a onetime, 10-month extension of a...
Mexican cartels added a new twist to the drug war this week by threatening to kill U.S. cops who seize their goods.
Despite 1,000 police officers in riot gear, rowdy fans celebrating their team's championship overturned cars, set fires, broke windows and vandalized stores. A car was torched, 16 people were injured, a police officer suffered a broken nose when someone...
