Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called for eliminating more than 3,500 city jobs including 61 firefighters and 443 typists to help curb a deficit estimated to reach $485 million in the coming fiscal year.
The mayor today unveiled his budget for...
A handful of former candidates and grass-roots activists launched a recall drive Tuesday against Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Former mayoral candidates Walter Moore and Phil Jennerjahn and David Hernandez, along with former City Council candidate Augusto...
Highly controversial, union-backed legislation that would make it more difficult for local governments to declare bankruptcy has made it out of the Senate Local Government Committee after a nearly yearlong stalemate.
Assembly Bill 155 by Assemblyman Tony...
Siding with law enforcement authorities, California lawmakers Tuesday advanced legislation that would make it illegal to openly carry a gun in public, even if it's unloaded.
Federal and local authorities have raided 35 homes in Riverside County as part of the probe into a series of booby trap attacks targeting Hemet police officers.
Hemet police Capt. Dave Brown said Tuesday 16 people had been taken into custody following...
After many missteps and technical glitches, the Los Angeles Police Department will soon launch a long-awaited plan to install video cameras in patrol cars, a department official said Tuesday.
Officers in the LAPD's Southeast Division are scheduled to use...
BANKRUPTCY defines failure and an inability to address a problem through other means. The city of Los Angeles would have a very difficult time going to court and declaring poverty. A judge would look at L.A.'s millions of dollars in assets and the city's...
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has officially put their new HYDRA training system online. Although there are 53 HYDRA training centers in the world, this is the first one operating in the U.S.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Tuesday laid out his rescue plan for a city mired in its worst fiscal crisis in a generation - an austerity budget that would cut library hours, scale back pothole repairs, freeze the hiring of firefighters and shut the...
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is weighing a move that could allow him to inch closer to his goal of adding 1,000 officers to the Los Angeles Police Department by shifting public safety employees from another city department.
When he outlines next year's...
The chief investment officer of California's giant pension fund said Monday he is disturbed by the allegations of wrongdoing against investment firm Goldman Sachs.
The California Public Employees Retirement System, which manages assets totaling about $...
James Madison wrote in The Federalist #51 that if people "were angels, no government would be necessary."
While most people are law-abiding, responsible citizens, a small but dangerous number commit crimes ranging from murder and sex offenses to grand...
The shooting of two men at a North Hollywood synagogue last year was prompted by a business dispute, an official said Monday.
One of the victims was targeted in the attack and the other was a bystander, said Los Angeles Police Department detective Steve...
The Supreme Court appears likely to rule against public employees who claimed a local government violated their privacy by reading racy text messages they sent on their employers' account.
Several justices said Monday that the employer, the Ontario,...
When it comes to the Los Angeles city budget crisis, it turns out the sky may not be falling after all.
After months of dire predictions that city officials might have to issue as many as 4,000 pink slips, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Monday that no...
Plain and simple, the man looked like a Central Casting cop, which in Los Angeles, in Hollywood, was probably the only way the chief of police could look.
Former Los Angeles Police Department Chief Daryl Gates died of cancer on Friday at the age of 83. A long-running theme in his life was the deep mutual antipathy he shared with many - but by no means all - writers and editors at the Los Angeles Times. The Times...
The phone rang around 2 a.m., waking Teeida Townsend. "My homie got killed," the caller said.
Townsend knew how the cycle plays out here in the gang heartland of south Los Angeles: a killing, a revenge shooting, and then another. He rushed to the crime...
A rally of about 40 white supremacists Saturday on the lawn of Los Angeles City Hall drew hundreds of counter-protesters, sparked brawls in which two people were severely beaten and ended with crowds of demonstrators hurling rocks and bottles at police and...
Daryl F. Gates, the rookie cop who rose from driver for a legendary chief to become chief himself, leading the Los Angeles Police Department during a turbulent 14-year period that found him struggling to keep pace with a city undergoing dramatic racial and...
Man Sentenced to Life in Slaying of LAPD Detective's Son
A 20-year-old man convicted of murdering the 18-year- old son of a Los Angeles Police Department Robbery-Homicide detective was sentenced today to a no-parole life prison term.
Los Angeles...
There is a remarkable documentary series on the A&E television network called The First 48. Each episode follows a team of homicide detectives from the moment they are summoned to a murder scene and for the ensuing 48 hours. As each installment in the...
Last May The Times ran an extensive interview by columnist Patt Morrison with former Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl F. Gates. Here are additional excerpts from that interview:
You grew up and lived in L.A. Most of the officers now don't...
Days before Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is scheduled to release his plan for balancing the budget, a coalition of labor groups said Thursday that it had found a way to cut $432 million without resorting to layoffs.
The Coalition of L.A. City...
Jake Tedesco was a little hesitant when his principal volunteered him to attend a police-sponsored youth leadership conference in San Pedro on Thursday.
Mothers of crime victims and representatives of victims' rights organizations across the Southland will rally in front of City Hall to protest a recent round of Los Angeles Police Department budget cuts, critically endangering homicide investigations.
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Lawmakers eliminated parole for some prisoners to save millions of dollars, but hundreds of high-risk inmates were released without supervision, apparently by mistake. At least one lawmaker is trying to figure out how to fix the mess.
A new law allowed...
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is expected to announce his endorsement Friday in the California attorney general race, and it's not going to be former L.A. city attorney and fellow Democrat Rocky Delgadillo.
Villaraigosa will throw his support to...
Could tactics used by the "open carry" movement backfire?
Assemblywoman Lori Saldaña, D-San Diego, and allies of legislation she introduced Wednesday to ban the public display of unloaded weapons believe so.
State law permitting Californians to...
Senator Bob Huff (R - Diamond Bar) announced that Senate Bill 938, sponsored by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, received unanimous bi-partisan support and passed out of the Senate Public Safety Committee.
Existing law allows some public...
