Reporting from Washington - Despite steep odds, the White House has discussed prospects for reviving a major overhaul of the nation's immigration laws, a commitment that President Obama has postponed once already.
Obama took up the issue privately with...
Asking Los Angeles property owners to repair their own sidewalks was among several ideas floated Thursday by the City Council to help offset a $684 million budget shortfall over the next 18 months.
Council members spent most of the meeting discussing...
Andre Birotte Jr., former inspector general of the Los Angeles Police Department, was sworn in today as the U.S. Attorney for the district covering Southern California.
Birotte was sworn in by U.S. District Judge Terry J. Hatter in a private ceremony at...
The Los Angeles police chief and district attorney are defending their exhibit of evidence from famous crimes including Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's assassination.
They released a letter Friday after Kennedy's son denounced them in a Los Angeles Times op-ed...
A man coolly and calmly approached the screening area outside the Pentagon Thursday evening and opened fire, grazing two Pentagon police officers before they returned fire, critically wounding him, officials said.
The incident happened at 6:40 p.m., when...
In the rush to save money in grim budgetary times, states nationwide have trimmed their prison populations by expanding parole programs and early releases. But the result - more convicted felons on the streets, not behind bars - has unleashed a backlash, and...
A day after announcing his candidacy for governor, Attorney General Jerry Brown said Wednesday that if elected he would consider overhauling public employee pension programs while opposing any move to privatize them.
The Democrat also expressed...
Recent cuts to California prison programs could result in more former inmates returning to prison and an increase in prison crowding, according to a draft state report.
The report from the California Rehabilitation Oversight Board, charged with...
Pink slips will soon be on their way to Los Angeles city workers now that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and his general managers have finalized the first list of 542 positions slated for elimination.
In a memo to 13 general managers Wednesday, Villaraigosa'...
It's a problem that's gotten out of control, nearly one in ten California drivers claim to be disabled and have placards, which let them park free all day at meters and on streets reserved for residents only.
But NBC-LA found, many of these people are...
How bad is the city's budget crisis? I'll tell you how bad it is, Controller Wendy Greuel predicts that next year's revenue will be all of $16.8 million below this year's -- a decline of less than one-half of one percent, .04 to be exact, on a general fund...
Reporting from Washington - The Supreme Court justices, hearing a 2nd Amendment challenge to Chicago's ban on handguns, signaled Tuesday that they were ready to extend gun rights nationwide, clearing the way for legal attacks on state and local gun restrictions...
Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher has begun to explore tightening state sex offender laws in the aftermath of the rape and murder of Poway teenager Chelsea King.
The San Diego Republican said he plans a deliberative approach, working with state and local...
Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said Wednesday it was "inevitable" that nonviolent inmates in county jails would be released early if the budget crisis persists.
Currently, inmates in County Jail convicted of nonviolent offenses serve 80% of their...
Not since the Beach Boys were in peach fuzz and crew cuts has it been so safe to live and play in the City of Angels. Believe it: you are more likely to be murdered in Columbus, Ohio, or Tulsa, Okla., than in the nation's second most populous city.
"You...
A display of the suit jacket, shirt, and tie worn by Robert Kennedy the night he was murdered at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles has been removed from a crime scene exhibit in Las Vegas after complaints from the Kennedy family, LAPD officials said.
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Two recent assassination attempts on Hemet gang task-force officers add to a national trend of more brazen and sophisticated attacks on police, often by gang members, law enforcement experts say.
The attacks on the Hemet-San Jacinto Gang Task Force...
Libraries might be open 12 fewer hours a week, parks might have to drop their day-care service and tree-trimming service might be abandoned under the city's pending layoffs and budget cuts, according to a...
Sonoma County Corrections Deputy N. Jax scans the fingerprints of an...
Sex offenders in California would be barred from using social networking Web sites such as Facebook and MySpace under a proposed law aimed at making the Internet safer for children as more and more of them flock to the Web.
LAPD detectives investigating shooting at Valley temple last year. (Photo...
The Los Angeles County Sheriff''s Department is considering dramatic cuts to its budget that would include downsizing the Pitchess Detention Center in northern L.A. County as well as moving hundreds of administrators and desk-duty deputies into street patrols...
Los Angeles officials received more grim financial news Tuesday as the City Council grappled with the pain of having to downsize some of its most popular programs.
City Controller Wendy Greuel delivered the harsh news, with a forecast that revenues will...
A police officer who was critically wounded in a rural Fresno County shootout that left two others dead was taken off life support Monday.
Reedley police Officer Javier Bejar was wounded Thursday when he arrived to provide backup for Fresno County...
A state Assemblyman has introduced legislation to ensure that a recently enacted law allowing the early release of nonviolent offenders would only apply to state prisons, not county jails.
The original law, a cost-saving measure that officials expect...
We said Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa practically looked heroic earlier this month when he stepped up to call for the agonizing cuts -- 1,000 workers -- that the City Council avoided in the face of L.A.'s $212 budget deficit. But over the weekend La Opinion...
Erroll Southers announced Monday that he will step down as assistant police chief at Los Angeles International Airport by the end of March, just two months after he withdrew his nomination to head the Transportation Security Administration.
Southers, a...
The Los Angeles City Council on Monday discussed hiking fees for ambulance usage, burglar alarm responses and other services provided by the Police and Fire departments as it looks for ways to cover a $212 million budget shortfall.
A working group headed...
It's a grim irony tucked away in the files of the Los Angeles Police Department.
The first request for funding to buy photographic equipment for the department was made by Chief Walter Auble in 1905.
And the oldest crime scene photos in the LAPD's...
Citing a decline in revenues and an increase in the cost of law enforcement, several small cities in southeast Los Angeles County are considering a novel approach to policing their communities.
City officials in Maywood and Bell say they are examining...
