The California budget crisis has forced the state to address a problem that expert panels and judges have wrangled over for decades: how to reduce prison overcrowding.
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The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to review Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's proposed package of electric rate hikes, taking the mayor to task for suggesting that defeat of the plan would plunge the city into bankruptcy.
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By now you have probably received the 2010 U.S. Census forms in the mail. The census counts every resident in the United States, and is required by the Constitution to take place every 10 years. Participation is mandatory.
The information the census...
The former owner of half a dozen L.A.-area medical marijuana dispensaries was sentenced Monday to six years in federal prison for conspiring to sell the drug, officials said.
Virgil Edward Grant II, 42, of Carson pleaded guilty last June to a single...
An en banc panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld the felon-in-possession-of-firearms conviction of a man Los Angeles Police Department officers found asleep on a couch in an abandoned apartment with a gun on his lap and another...
The Los Angeles Police Department unveiled a new training system Monday aimed at helping commanders make the best decisions during emergencies.
The series of computers is configured to simulate anything from a call about a missing child to a full-scale...
Former LAPD officer Kristina Ripatti-Pearce is preparing to travel 3,000 miles across country in the charity event, Race Across America.
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Despite persistent concerns over its performance, the company that operates Los Angeles' red-light camera program won preliminary approval Monday for a three-month contract extension.
The City Council Public Safety Committee reluctantly recommended...
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A City Council panel ordered the LAPD on Monday to study the creation of a program at the Police Academy that other agencies could use as a way to generate revenue.
The proposal by the council's...
In an effort to corral mounting pension costs for employees, Ventura on Monday became the first city in Ventura County to call for a two-tiered pension system that would scale back benefits to future retirees.
Existing employees would continue to receive...
Since the "Summer of Love" more than 40 years ago, this liberal city and its legendary Haight-Ashbury neighborhood have been magnets for the young, the alienated, the down-and-out and the stoned - and for tourists eager to watch them.
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Ten years ago, Luisa Prudhomme watched as the man whom she believed to be her son's murderer drove away from the police station in a pickup truck.
Her son, 21-year-old Anthony Prudhomme, had been fatally shot during a home invasion of his Highland Park...
Los Angeles Police officers shot and killed a man in Koreatown early Saturday morning after he reached into his waistband for what officers believed was a weapon, authorities said.
Steven Eugene Washington, 27, died from a single gunshot wound to the...
Democratic candidates for statewide office vied for a key labor endorsement Saturday, trying to outdo one another in their criticism of state employee furloughs and other budget cuts that have affected union workers.
The candidates appeared at Service...
Even as city leaders call on employees to take pay cuts or face layoffs, seven City Council members and City Attorney Carmen Trutanich have declined to lower their own salaries.
Some of those who have not taken the cuts defended the decisions by saying...
Shomari Jennings was willing to pay the $70 ticket he received for driving without a seatbelt, but not the slew of tacked-on fees and penalties that ballooned the cost more than tenfold.
Every $10 of his base fine triggered a $26 "penalty assessment" for...
When the police department in Gulfport, Miss., recently ended long funeral processions by limiting them to five vehicles, the news was not well-received by some residents, who saw it as killing a cherished tradition.
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California corrections officials have increased scrutiny of paroled sex offenders, a move that follows years of failures in how Phillip Garrido, now accused in the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard, was monitored.
A policy that took effect Thursday calls...
Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) have laid out the framework for a comprehensive, bipartisan immigration reform bill that would include tougher border enforcement, creation of biometric Social Security cards and a path to...
The Schwarzenegger administration wants to put the University of California in charge of state prison inmates' medical needs in an overhaul of the troubled corrections healthcare system that could save $12 billion over a decade, officials say.
The...
Describing it as "urban terrorism," California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown joined with Riverside County officials Thursday in asking the public to help find those who tried at least three times to kill officers assigned to a Hemet-based gang task force.
"It...
On any given night, about ten police officers working the swing shift patrol the streets of Vallejo. On a recent Wednesday, one of them was Officer Drew Ramsey.
It was almost two years ago that Vallejo went broke. Literally. When it declared bankruptcy,...
The growing front in the war on terrorism may be no farther than Main Street. The terror cases that have emerged in the past week have one common characteristic: The suspects are all Americans.
One is a woman who looked after the elderly in suburban...
Faced with the daunting prospect of being significantly outspent by his likely Republican opponent, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown spoke to a labor group Tuesday and urged it to go on the offensive.
"We're going to attack whenever we can...
Vivid memories of wounded soldiers crying out for help still haunt a hero.
Thousand Oaks resident Jim Miller did all he could to rescue those suffering boys begging for deliverance from a muddy grave in Vietnam and get them home. His brave actions more...
Crime was the most common subject "by far" of lead stories of Los Angeles television stations on 14 random days studied last summer, says a new report from the Norman Lear Center of the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communication and...
Two San Diego County lawmakers are questioning whether Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has picked the right vehicle for reform in asking for an investigation into how parole agents handled the 2000 molestation case of John Albert Gardner III, now charged in the...
California's prison population declined in 2009 for the third straight year as the number of state prisoners fell nationally for the first time in nearly four decades, according to a new survey from the Pew Center on the States.
The overall decline was...
The federal receiver who runs California's prison health care system said Tuesday he will ask state lawmakers to approve four bills to control spiraling costs - including proposals to restrict prisons' use of prescription drugs and outside medical specialists...
Every mile Kristina Ripatti-Pearce leaves behind keeps a gun out of a child's hands. Every city and town she passes gives another good kid a chance to earn a diploma.
For Ripatti-Pearce, who retired from the Los Angeles Police Department after being...
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