Long Beach Police chief reportedly throws his hat in to the race for Los Angeles County Sheriff's.
Jay Martin Glaser, a defense attorney who worked at a Long Beach law firm, was killed in a crash in Torrance.
More than two dozen cars were also impounded during the five hour checkpoint.
Americans traveling to the Games this year should be vigilant of their surroundings, officials said.
The victim met the suspect through a Craigslist ad.
Homicide detectives suspect the boyfriend of the boy's babysitter assaulting the boy, causing blunt force trauma, authorities said.
Lee Baca was up for re-election this year and was facing a tough election.
An investigation by Long Beach Police has ended with a long prison sentence for a Los Angeles man accused of forcing a 13-year-old into prostitution.
The two people on board the small airplane were rescued by a Catalina Express ferry. No fatalities were reported.
Yvonne Robinson is accused of feeding information to a local gang through a relative.
LA County Sheriff's officials identified 15 cases of problematic hires made during a controversial mass hiring in 2010 , according to a new sheriff department report.
"Shooting guns to celebrate the new year is reckless, dangerous and can be deadly," Sheriff Lee Baca said.
Jose Angel Martinez, of Compton, and Adrian Berumen, of Long Beach, are each charged with one count of murder and one count of felony arson, authorities said.
A former Long Beach Police officer was arrested on suspicion that she and a family members were passing on details of a murder investigation to a local gang.
Drunken or drugged driving arrests from Dec. 13 through Christmas day have increased by about 100 arrests since last year.
Police ask anyone with information to call detectives.
The Los Angeles County campaign will continue through New Year's Day.
A train passenger reportedly became combative with sheriff's deputies who tried to stop him from defacing a ticket dispenser, authorities said.
We looked at stories from across America in the year since the shootings at Sandy Hook School to try to illustrate the scale of the problem.
A Long Beach and Buena Park resident face charges in connection with the death of a 55-year-old man.
Two men and a woman enters pleas in court to a murder charge in the death of a Cerritos man.
A Cerritos man faced several charges in connection to a chase that ended in a fatal crash in Long Beach.
Long Beach Police believe the former investigator, who was fired in March, was leaking information about a murder investigation to gang members.
The victim was found inside a Church on South Street.
The woman her husband and the accused henchman allegedly plotted to kill her mother at the elder woman's Long Beach home, according to authorities.
The bomb squad was called out to a Walmart on East Fifth Street.
A man was fatally shot Saturday night in west Long Beach, said Long Beach Police.
The boys were recovered unharmed at the San Ysidro border crossing in San Diego Saturday, authorities said.
Charles Samuel Baines Sr. took his sons -- Charles Samuel Baines, 10, and Nathaniel James Baines, 9 -- Wednesday from their home while their mother slept.
A Long Beach man and a man and woman from Carson are in custody. The victim was found in a Torrance parking structure near Pacific Coast Highway.
A Sunday Vigil was held for a young man killed in by police during a pursuit.
A man was killed when the stolen car in which he was a passenger went off Pacific Coast Highway rolled down an embankment and flipped, police said.
The 26-year-old South Gate man was arrested in North Long Beach Oct. 25.
The man was convicted of killing a 16-year-old female honor student after opening fire on a crowd of people after a high school homecoming football game in Long Beach.
A South Gate man is accused of exposing himself to several victims within various Los Angeles County cities.
Officers had stopped the vehicle for a traffic violation and were interviewing a passenger when he ran.