A plan to ask Los Angeles voters to roll back retirement benefits for newly hired city workers at Los Angeles City Hall is dead - at least for now, two high-level city officials said today.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's deputy chief of staff said this...
The Supreme Court has given big business, unions and nonprofits more power to spend freely in federal elections, a major turnaround that threatens a century of government efforts to regulate the power of corporations to bankroll American politics.
A 5-4...
The union representing Los Angeles police officers on Thursday asked Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to ensure that local departments are notified when prisoners from the massive release planned for Monday come their way.
"We are very concerned that the...
District Attorney Steve Cooley and state Sen. Alex Padilla will hold a news conference Friday to urge the state legislature to pass what they describe as an urgent law that would ban violent felons from wearing body armor.
Cooley, who has indicated his...
The Los Angeles Police Department seems to be taking the possibility of a state release of prisoners starting Jan. 25 seriously. California is under a federal order to release 40,000 prisoners, nearly one in four in the state, to relieve overcrowding, and the U...
Batten down the hatches. The state is scheduled to release thousands of prisoners, with at least 5,000 coming to California, starting Jan. 25, according to a statement from the union representing rank-and-file Los Angeles police officers.
"The county of...
The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed California's appeal of a federal judicial panel's order that it reduce its prison population by more than 40,000 in two years.
In its brief order, the high court indicated Tuesday that it will not disturb the three-judge...
Brace yourself for another long year of budget talks.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a fiscal emergency and demanded swift action to eliminate nearly half of the state's $19.9 billion deficit by March.
But the Legislature, divided as ever...
There are dozens of proposed measures for the 2010 elections, all of which purport to improve California's economic, social or civic well-being. Some are fairly major structural changes - and chances are high that quite a few will actually make the ballot....
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the City Council have a double task ahead of them. They must confront a serious cash-flow problem and take decisive, sober action to ensure that the city will have the money to pay its bills over the next 18 months. At the same...
The nation's police chiefs are finding an alarming increase in criminals' use of assault weapons - the high-powered battlefield rifles that used to be banned, back when the federal government showed greater concern for public safety. The 10-year ban expired in...
Despite neighborhood complaints, most medical marijuana clinics are not typically the magnets for crime that critics often portray, according to Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck.
"Banks are more likely to get robbed than medical marijuana...
In far too many cases at Los Angeles City Hall, the phone is ringing, but no one is home.
In fact, a new audit says taxpayers are paying nearly $3 million a year for nearly 12,000 municipal telephone lines that are no longer in use.
"With the city...
LAPD Chief Charlie Beck answered questions Wednesday night in a special edition of KPCC's Patt Morrison's "Ask the Chief" feature. Beck spoke and answered questions about undocumented immigration and Special Order 40, gang intervention, the end of the consent...
The intersection of Sixth Street and Central Avenue has been dedicated as Officer Charles P. Williams Square.
The City Council agreed on some rough guidelines Wednesday on where medical marijuana clinics should be allowed to operate, but put off a final decision on a long-debated ordinance at least until next week.
Council members seemed to agree that at least...
A Southside Whittier gang member on the run for nine years is back in Los Angeles County to face trial for shooting at two deputies during a Sept. 5, 2000, traffic stop.
Norwalk Station Deputy Michael Schaap was shot in the forehead while Deputy David...
After a lengthy legal fight, an anti-gang activist accused of still participating in gang life by ordering a hit on a rival was granted $2 million bail on Wednesday, despite objections by federal prosecutors that he could flee to his native El Salvador.
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CARSON CITY - In a dissenting opinion, seven judges on the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said a decision by their colleagues on the court related to a Reno case could turn police officers into babysitters, psychiatrists and social workers.
A three-...
The governor's proposed state budget could mean a record loss of nearly $4 billion for Los Angeles County, putting hundreds of thousands of needy residents at risk of losing welfare checks, in-home care, health care and other services, officials said Tuesday....
A star is born.
The Los Angeles Police Department and its historic struggles to transform its relationship with the city's ethnic communities is the focus of an ABC documentary to air Sunday.
The one-hour doc by Pierre Bagley, called LAPD ......
For the seventh straight year, crime dropped in Los Angeles in 2009. The former homicide capital of the nation shows few signs of the dark, dangerous place depicted in countless end-of-the-century movies.
Indeed, the 314 homicides logged last year in...
Following last month's state appeals court ruling overturning California's ban on body armor for ex-felons convicted of violent crimes, the Los Angeles City Council is poised to consider a similar law that would apply locally.
The Los Angeles Police...
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced Thursday the creation of a city anti-gang academy to train and license intervention workers.
The crucial component of L.A.'s anti-gang strategy was delayed for months because of conflicting visions for the...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will propose ending furloughs for state workers at the end of June but seek permanent pay cuts and higher employee retirement contributions in their place, administration officials said Thursday.
Those two measures, which...
Judges should be able to deny bail to criminal suspects who are thought to be "inherently dangerous" to the public, Gov. Chris Gregoire and representatives of the state's law enforcement system said Wednesday.
Gregoire said she will ask the Legislature...
The FBI will join Mexican investigators in their search for the killers of El Monte school board member Bobby Salcedo and five other men in the central Mexico city of Gomez Palacio.
Los Angeles union leaders urged city officials Wednesday to crack down on fraud and abuse in the pension system instead of resorting to a proposed ballot measure that would scale back pension payments for future city employees.
"We agree wholeheartedly...
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says it's time the state privatized its vast prison system, which is larger than that of many nations.
"Spending 45 percent more on prisons than universities is no way to proceed into the future," the governor says...
A 37-hour manhunt through several counties ended swiftly and peacefully Wednesday morning when a tip led Beaver County deputies to two men wanted in the death of a Millard County sheriff's deputy.
Roberto Miramontes Roman and Ruben Chavez Reyes were...
