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A man fatally shot while driving in Van Nuys was identified Saturday as 29-year-old Lancaster resident.

Rahmir Williams died after the roughly 1:15 a.m. shooting Friday on Vanowen Street near Sepulveda Boulevard, according to a coroner's investigator and...

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A delay in production for the new California driver licenses and identification cards has doubled the turnaround time to receive the new cards, an official said.

The new cards have more security features and must be perfect before being mailed to...

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In recent weeks, the Los Angeles Police Protective League has been calling on city leaders to revisit policy decisions that are forcing Police Chief Charlie Beck to staff critical administrative jobs with sworn police officers and, in two months, will have him...

Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca made a public appeal to the Compton City Council on Tuesday to delay its planned resurrection of the Compton Police Department, saying the city can't afford the move.

"I believe the Compton Police Department could come...

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The party's over.

Cops from LAPD's Hollywood Vice have been cracking down on those mega stretch limos and...


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Brian A. Terry (Photo: U.S. Customs and Border...

Cameras proliferate this data-driven age, replacing hazy recollections with clear digital images.

Starting on New Year's Day, 2011, this will be increasingly true on California's roadways when...

The "donning and doffing" lawsuit filed by about 900 Long Beach police officers against the city of Long Beach "has essentially been settled," City Attorney Bob Shannon told the Press-Telegram on Tuesday.

The police officers won't receive a cash...

Hate crimes were down in Los Angeles County in 2009 compared with the year before, but such crimes against Jews spiked almost 50%, according to a report released Tuesday.

Last year, there were 580 hate crimes, which can range from vandalism to violence,...

The California Supreme Court refused today to consider the case against a teenage gang member convicted of shooting at two Los Angeles police officers who were chasing him in Van Nuys in May 2007.

Alfredo Garcia of Lakeview Terrace was convicted in...

Lonnie David Franklin Jr. appears in Los Angeles County Superior Court in July.
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Funeral services will be held today for a 60-year-old off-duty Los Angeles Police Department officer killed in a collision in Orange County that also took the life of a second motorcyclist.

Emergency Operation Divisions Officer Kent Carter was riding his...

Violent crime in the United States dropped markedly in the first half of 2010, according to FBI statistics released Monday.

Overall violent crime fell 6.2% from the same period last year, according to the report, and the new numbers include a 7.1%...

Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca was sworn in Monday for a fourth term, and he said he did not expect it to be his last.

"I'm going to live to be 100," Baca, 68, said after a ceremony attended by dozens of his deputies and a smattering of state and...

Teenagers on winter break from San Pedro schools better make sure they don't stay out too late during the holiday period.

Los Angeles police announced Monday that officers will be enforcing the 10 p.m. curfew in an effort to cut down on crime.

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Angry residents at a City Council meeting in Bell earlier this year.
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The union representing members of the Los Angeles Police Department is making an unlikely argument-that the city should stop hiring policemen....

The Los Angeles Police Department was inundated with hundreds of phone calls, e-mails and other tips a day after detectives released photographs of unidentified women found in a trailer belonging to alleged serial killer Lonnie Franklin Jr.

"The...

The holiday season is supposed to be a time of joy and good tidings. However, for society's protectors - military, fire, and police - the holidays are also often dangerous and tragic.

The 155 LEO deaths in 2010 have already far exceeded...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger delivered a gift to anti-gang programs statewide Friday as he called for an end to the partisanship that has divided the nation.

Schwarzenegger announced his administration was providing $9.2 million to anti-gang efforts...

January 1 is right around the corner, and for California drivers, that means a slew of new laws go into effect. The California Highway Patrol sent out a reminder and details about all of the state's new traffic laws that will govern the roads and their drivers...

Since the war on terror began nine years ago, nearly 6,000 troops have been killed in combat or died otherwise in the line of duty. Their flag-draped caskets are transported back home from Iraq or Afghanistan. But what happens to that casket on their final...

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Since the July arrest of "Grim Sleeper" serial killer suspect Lonnie David Franklin Jr. for allegedly killing 10 people, Los Angeles police investigators have received 75 calls from the family and friends of missing women, wanting to know the fate of their...

The LAPD plans to release images of 160 women taken by the alleged " Grim Sleeper" on Thursday in the hope that family or friends will recognize them and contact authorities.

In July, when Los Angeles police arrested Lonnie Franklin Jr., the man accused...

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