City flags flew at half-staff Thursday to honor a Los Angeles police officer killed while serving in Afghanistan, and also to honor the late mother of police Chief Charlie Beck.
Both Staff Sgt. Joshua J. Cullins, 28, a Marine reservist, and Elma Beck, 86...
[The LAPD] is considering using a Korean breed of dog, the Jindo, in its K-9 units.
According to the Los Angeles Police Department, two canine trainers from its elite Metropolitan Division will be sent to Jindo county, South Jeolla Province in Korea...
Two months ago, police officers who patrol downtown Los Angeles took to the streets to film a visual get-well card for a fellow officer who had been injured dismantling a roadside bomb while on duty in Afghanistan with the Marines.
Buoyed by his friends...
Police are searching for three jewelry robbery suspects considered armed and dangerous.
According to the Los Angeles Police Dept., three African-American male suspects robbed a jewelry merchant in downtown L.A. on Oct. 13 at approximately 4 p.m.
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A man who allegedly killed a Los Angeles woman in 1980 was arrested in Rochester, N.Y., and has been returned to the Southland, where he was booked on suspicion of murder and held in the county jail on $1 million bond.
Albert McKee, 52, was arrested on...
Los Angeles Police officials announced today that the 87-year-old mother of Chief Charlie Beck has died.
Elma Beck was surrounded by family and friends at her home in San Pedro when she died on October 18. Elma Beck had a brief battle with cancer, a...
According to information released today by the FBI, 48 law enforcement officers were feloniously killed in the line of duty last year; 47 officers died in accidents while performing their duties; and 57,268 officers were assaulted in the line of duty. The 2009...
The city of Los Angeles opened up a $63.7 million budget deficit in the first quarter of this fiscal year -- not because of a drop in revenues but because of delays in implementing cost-cutting measures such as layoffs, according to a report released Monday....
Alexander Diaz, a 36-year-old Cuban national, was released from California's Delano State Prison in early February as a state-supervised parolee after serving four months of a 16-month sentence for grand theft. Five months later, Diaz went off the radar.
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In what police called a rare string of robberies in the San Fernando Valley, two masked men on Saturday night robbed a liquor store, drug store and a sandwich shop - even taking cash and cell phones from patron, in less than 2 hours.
In an unrelated...
One man was killed and another was listed in critical condition Sunday after two separate shootings this weekend in the San Fernando Valley, police said.
The first shooting occurred Saturday around 9:40 p.m. in the 8700 block of Langdon Avenue, in...
Almost lost in the debate between Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman over the use of the word "whore" is what it means for the new activism of the Los Angeles Police Protective League on state issues.
And, as far as PPL officials are concerned, the controversy...
The top budget official at Los Angeles City Hall has put together two wide-ranging proposals for regaining control of pension costs, both of which would force newly hired city employees to pay more toward their retirement while receiving less generous benefits...
Representatives from a crime victims advocacy group argued in court Friday that a new law allowing the release of some prison inmates before they complete their original sentences violates victims' constitutional rights.
Lawyers for Crime Victims United...
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder broke ground Thursday on a National Law Enforcement Museum in the capital that will put police officers in the public eye and promises such exhibits as Al Capone's bulletproof vest.
Washington's newest attraction in an...
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Three major law enforcement organizations have opened their wallets to boost Republican Steve Cooley's campaign for attorney general.
The California Statewide Law Enforcement Assn. has dropped $460,000 into a committee to help Cooley with radio ads. The...
A Los Angeles police officer sustained a head injury Thursday afternoon during a foot pursuit near the border of Inglewood and the neighborhood of Hyde Park.
The officer, who was not identified, was involved in the pursuit in the 1100 block of 67th...
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department touted a continued decrease in homicides Thursday.
By the end of September last year, the department tallied 160 criminal homicides, compared with 134 this year, a roughly 15% decrease.
The sheriff's...
A police raid on an ex-convict's Southern California home has uncovered a weapon's stockpile, including at least 21 high-powered firearms and body armor.
Los Angeles police Lt. Thomas Zaku says Wednesday's early morning San Fernando Valley raid may have...
Los Angeles police identified a man Wednesday who allegedly shot and killed a septuagenarian from Studio City two decades ago during a burglary gone bad.
Rupert Thompson, 73, was severely beaten in 1994 before he was shot by an intruder at his home on...
Fresno Police say 4-year-old Tiffany Matias was found at her grandmother's house in Los Angeles. Matias' mother reported her missing Tuesday when she never came home from school. Police got to the bottom of the girl's disappearance by talking to family and...
Talk about issues turned personal Tuesday in the final debate of the governor's race, as candidates Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman traded barbs on issues ranging from capital gains taxes to illegal immigration.
The candidates also sounded off on the recent...
In a blistering final debate, Democratic candidate for governor Jerry Brown apologized to his Republican counterpart Meg Whitman on Tuesday for a slur directed at her by an associate, an apology that Whitman did not explicitly accept as she cast his campaign as...
