Along with the Boston Celtics fans scattered around the city, there's another contingent quietly dreading the idea of a Lakers victory Thursday night: the Los Angeles Police Department.
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The U.S. Senate is poised to vote as early as today on a spending plan that would send $1.8 billion to California for increased Medicaid funding, money that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says the state desperately needs to help balance its budget.
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The Los Angeles City Council postponed a decision Tuesday on whether to send four police officers to a conference in Tucson - which would create the first exception to its ban on travel to Arizona - to give officials time to find someone else to pay for the...
Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck took the unusual step of addressing "employee wellness" and drinking and DUI problems within...
California's bid to get Congress to chip in $1.8 billion to help close the state's budget gap is all but dead.
In a key test vote today, the Senate agreed to uphold Republican objections to a bill that included $24 billion in aid to the states, including...
Los Angeles County's top law officials are speaking out against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal to eliminate state funding for treating heroin addicts.
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck and Sheriff Lee Baca spoke at a news conference Wednesday...
Nearly a dozen Southern California law enforcement agencies arrested members of a tagging crew Wednesday believed responsible for hundreds of thousands of dollars in property damage over the last year, including during the Lakers' 2009 victory celebration....
CalPERS today will likely approve a $600 million increase in state contributions to the beleaguered pension fund.
The fund's benefits and program administration committee Tuesday recommended the increase in a unanimous vote. The full board of the...
City officials will make preparations to issue pink slips to 200 police officers who could be out of a job by mid-July.
No final decision on cutting police has been made, but the City Council voted Tuesday to direct administrators to prepare to issue the...
Agreeing to hear an appeal from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will decide whether the state can be forced to release 46,000 inmates - more than one-fourth of its prison population - to relieve overcrowding.
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Riverside County supervisors Tuesday voted to place a union-backed measure to protect public-safety pensions on the November ballot.
The initiative, supported by the Riverside Sheriff's Association, qualified for the ballot last month after backers...
Prosecutors charged two men with multiple felonies, including murder, in connection with a police pursuit that ended in the death of a 6-year-old girl who was pinned against a wall while playing outdoors in her Lake View Terrace neighborhood, authorities said...
The Los Angeles Police Department on Tuesday announced that detectives had issued an arrest warrant in the 1983 abduction and slaying of an 8-year-old girl in Watts.
Detectives with the LAPD's cold case homicide unit said prosecutors had filed murder...
Immigrants convicted of minor drug offenses should not face automatic deportation, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday, a decision that could allow thousands of legal immigrants the chance to argue for leniency from immigration judges.
The court...
San Bernardino County prosecutors have charged a 20-year-old man with murdering a California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer who collided with a truck while pursuing him.
District Attorney Michael A. Ramos said Monday that the charge against Richard...
A Senate committee has defeated a bill backed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that would have cut California's long-term pension costs by reducing benefits for newly hired state employees.
Sen. Dennis Hollingsworth's bill would have required new state...
The top executive at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is laying the groundwork for a sale of some of the agency's biggest assets -including the utility's iconic downtown Los Angeles headquarters - as it seeks to cover rising costs without raising...
The story behind the legislation reads like a movie pitch.
The wife of a Southern California police detective, distraught because she had lost custody of her children, tries to hire a hit man from the Vagos motorcycle gang to kill him.
Instead,...
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A Los Angeles City Council committee Monday raised concerns about a Police Department proposal to shutter several of its small, satellite jails in order to staff a new, central facility.
In a joint session with the LAPD's civilian oversight commission,...
California is bracing for a big increase in the cost of supporting its public employee pensions. Other states, by contrast, are slashing retirement expenses.
In an effort to reduce the burden on their budgets, at least a dozen states have passed laws...
President Obama urged reluctant lawmakers Saturday to quickly approve nearly $50 billion in emergency aid to state and local governments, saying the money is needed to avoid "massive layoffs of teachers, police and firefighters" and to support the still-fragile...
A legal battle over who gets to control California's massive spending on prisons - judges or corrections officials - may be headed to the U.S. Supreme Court, with overcrowding at the state's 33 prisons at the center of the debate.
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Police in Vallejo are scheduled to receive a 7 percent pay raise next month, part of a labor contract negotiated after the city declared bankruptcy two years ago.
"The police getting a 7 percent raise is insane," said Vallejo Councilwoman Marti Brown,...
If the Los Angeles Lakers beat back the Boston Celtics and win the NBA Championship, the team has offered to pick up the tab of a city parade, a Lakers spokesman said Friday.
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Budget cuts ordered by Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca have undermined his agency's ability to collect and analyze fingerprint evidence, causing delays for more than 65 homicide investigations and resulting in the destruction of potential leads in scores of...
In my last column, I reflected on the disappointing but not altogether unsurprising news that Charlie Beck, chief of the Los Angeles Police...
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U.S. Atty. Andre Birotte Jr. announced Friday that he was creating a specialized unit to prosecute public corruption and civil rights cases, such as those involving politicians or police officers accused of crimes.
The move effectively restores a similar...
Moments before she was killed, 6-year-old Kayla Woods was doing what she did most evenings: She was playing outdoors with her brother, Aaron, 4, and a couple of their neighborhood friends.
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