PARKING: Money to keep Los Angeles from worker layoffs, more furloughs.
The Los Angeles City Council approved a plan Wednesday to lease out nine publicly owned parking garages in order to replenish city coffers and avert worker layoffs and furloughs....
Federal regulators accused the State of New Jersey of securities fraud on Wednesday for claiming it had been properly funding public workers' pensions when it was not.
The Securities and Exchange Commission said the action was its first ever against a...
Along with John Chiang, the...
A U.S. Forest Service ranger assigned to the east fork of San Gabriel Canyon above Azusa was assaulted Wednesday afternoon in a what authorities called a "bizarre and seemingly unprovoked attack."
The assault was reported about 3:40 p.m. after a man...
A West Hills man suspected of helping grow an estimated $24 million worth of pot in O'Melveny Park was facing a possible felony today.
Natale Gabriele, 49, was arrested on suspicion of tending thousands of plants in the San Fernando Valley park at the...
Two infant skeletons wrapped in 1930s newspapers and placed in doctor's bags were found inside an unclaimed steamer trunk by a woman cleaning out the basement of a 1924 building that's being converted to condominiums, authorities said.
The skeletons,...
A missing 13-year-old San Fernando Valley girl was found tonight, about an hour after police held a news conference about her disappearance.
Karina Valencia was located Wednesday about 7 near Glenoaks Boulevard and Oro Grande in Sylmar by officers from...
Los Angeles' top executive warned Tuesday that city workers could face layoffs and additional furloughs if the City Council fails Wednesday to issue proposals for leasing out nine municipal garages.
City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana said revenue...
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Police believe Elias Abuelazam's stabbing spree started in late May when he killed a 31-year-old on a dark street in Flint, Mich., but Flint police did not begin discussing the possibility of a serial killer until late July, when the area had six stabbings over...
Although they lack hard numbers, law enforcement officials say many of the 600-plus illegal medical marijuana dispensaries that dotted the Los Angeles landscape have disappeared since the city ordered them closed in June.
The City Attorney's Office says...
A bill by Assemblyman Anthony Portantino that would push law enforcement agencies to analyze rape kits in a timely manner must still clear two legislative hurdles before becoming law.Assembly Bill 558 received bipartisan support from the state Senate, which...
Police sought the public's help Monday in finding the killer of a man who was gunned down in a gang-related, car-to-car shootout in Van Nuys.
Luis Delgado, 33, was shot about 9:50 p.m. Sunday at Saticoy Street and Gaynor Avenue and died at a hospital,...
Some time ago I was on patrol in a part of Los Angeles known then as now for its high level of crime. A woman driving through the neighborhood stopped me and posed some questions. She had been living in one of L.A.'s far-off suburbs, and she was contemplating a...
The Los Angeles Police Protective League is staging its annual Eagle and Badge dinner at the Century Plaza Hotel on Saturday.
The Eagle and Badge Foundation is the Protective League's main charity, raising money to help LAPD officers and their families...
The day he was sworn into office in 2005, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa proclaimed his desire to see Los Angeles become "the greenest big city in America."
As mayor he committed to boosting the city's renewable energy portfolio, promised to make traffic...
Carlos Ponce...
The new death row complex at San Quentin State Prison will feature 768 cells, 1,152 beds, six guard towers, a hospital and two fences, one of them electrified.
That is, of course, if the complex is built at all.
The state this week began...
A Los Angeles County sheriff's lieutenant recently sent an internal memo to deputies in Norwalk encouraging them to consider an individual's past and career potential before making a felony arrest.
An LAPD sergeant was critically injured when 2 police cars collided, then crashed into two other vehicles in Koreatown.
The crash happened near 749 Western Avenue.
Police said two patrol cars were headed to back up another officer when they...
California lawmakers put the brakes Thursday on a bill that would have increased fines for drivers using handheld cell phones or texting while navigating the road.
The Assembly Appropriations Committee blocked Senate Bill 1475 from reaching the floor for...
