Cities in Los Angeles County could be liable for the supervision of more than 9,000 parolees under a proposed budget plan that would eliminate and shift a significant portion of state responsibilities to local governments.
Glendale police have already...
I am a member of a public-sector employee union.
In conservative circles, such an admission is tantamount to the sort one might hear at a 12-step meeting, an acknowledgment of some shameful addiction most decent people think should be corrected as...
More than a quarter of U.S. workers said they're "not at all confident" about their ability to afford a comfortable retirement, the highest percentage in two decades, according to an Employee Benefit Research...
Some members of Congress haven't been shy about criticizing underfunded state and local pension plans, even though they themselves enjoy much heftier retirement packages than most private-sector employees and state workers do.
Budget battles in New...
Eight months after it was enacted, what was supposed to be a tough measure against drunken driving is having little effect in four test counties, including Sacramento.
The law requires anyone convicted of drunken driving to get an ignition interlock...
Two New York police officers were killed less than 12 hours apart over the weekend, one after being pushed over a railing and the other after he was shot by another officer following a confrontation with a knife-wielding man, who was also killed.
A New...
A small southwestern Virginia community is again dealing with a deadly shooting rampage that this time killed two deputies and wounded two more before the suspect who may have been trying to rob a salvage yard was fatally shot by police.
Buchanan County...
Los Angeles police last week joined a growing list of law enforcement agencies across the state in changing policies for impounding vehicles of unlicensed drivers, a shift prompted by complaints that illegal immigrants were being unfairly targeted at DUI...
A Limon police officer was shot to death Wednesday evening and two officers in a mobile home were freed in a dramatic end to an hours-long standoff with a wanted fugitive.
The standoff ended just after 10:40 p.m. when SWAT officers swarmed in to the...
Los Angeles police...
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How much discretion California's law enforcement officials have in issuing concealed weapons permits is the subject of a federal lawsuit with national overtones.
On Thursday, gun-rights advocates argued in federal court in Sacramento that county sheriffs...
An eight-hour standoff between LAPD officers and a man who said he was armed with a gun inside a room at the Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles ended early Thursday when police broke down the door and arrested him.
The incident began Wednesday...
Six members of the Los Angeles City Council were pulling ahead of their challengers in Tuesday's election, despite a year in which council members struggled to get a handle on a sweeping budget crisis.
Sgt. Mike Abdeen, on duty in the county Sheriff's Department, got a call last year from a Muslim father who was worried about his son. The young man had grown a full beard and was spending a lot of time alone in his room, on the computer. The father was worried...
The FBI's new technology platform for storing and identifying fingerprints is now operational, the bureau announced Tuesday, March 8.
Four Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) bomb squad technicians are visiting Israel to train with their counterparts in the Israeli National Police Bomb Squad.
Ronald Capra, an LAPD bomb squad officer who will accompany three other officers for the...
Crime reports are up significantly for the latest week...
Authorities in Los Angeles said Tuesday that scam artists pretending to be health inspectors have been targeting area restaurants seeking to get private information.
Numerous restaurant operators have reported receiving phone calls in which the callers...
While most city agencies are facing another year of cost-cutting, the LAPD would get an additional $56 million for fiscal 2011-12 under a preliminary budget approved Tuesday by the civilian Police Commission.
The increase would bring the Los Angeles...
Los Angeles police were seeking the public...
Facing a $5.5-million budget shortfall, the Inland Empire city of Colton will lay off eight police officers by the end of April and has continued to negotiate for concessions from unions representing the city's firefighters, police dispatchers and utility...
The U.S. Department of Transportation and Consumer Reports magazine have released a poll that illustrates how widespread distracted driving is among young people and a plan to help fight it.
The poll says 63 percent of people under 30 acknowledge driving...
