A battery-powered forklift caught fire at a commercial building in Northridge, prompting evacuations and air-quality monitoring.
A registered sex offender with a history of similar offenses was arrested this week.
The unlicensed 20-year-old was speeding at up to 97 mph on a street with a 40 mph limit, prosecutors said.
Several homes — including a "Real Housewives" star's — were broken into Monday, hours after a meeting about last week's double murder.
A 29-year-old man was killed in a hit-and-run crash over the weekend.
"This is truly a heartbreaking and horrific case," Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman said in a statement Friday.
Police say the couple may have interrupted a burglary in progress days after reporting suspicious activity and contacting private security.
Three teenage boys were wounded in a shooting in the west San Fernando Valley Wednesday night.
Seven people were hurt Wednesday in a crash involving a school bus in the east San Fernando Valley.
A 20-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the 5-year-old boy's death.
A man driving an SUV led police on a nearly hour-long high-speed chase in circles through Van Nuys Tuesday before surrendering.
Police are investigating the deaths of a music supervisor who worked on "American Idol" and her husband.
According to police, a 41-year-old gunman carjacked a vehicle in the San Fernando Valley and lead police on a chase to Newport Beach.
The teacher is accused of sexually abusing students at a San Fernando Valley elementary school.
Police fear other people who have been victimized by the in-home nurse have yet to come forward.
A former Northridge insurance agent sentenced Monday to over four years in federal prison.
The suspect was reportedly tackled down by Glendale Police Department officers near a bloody hammer in the mall.
The identity of the person who died is not known yet, nor the cause of the accident.
The LAPD plans to ramp up drunken-driving enforcement across the city this weekend.
A man was found dead on a freeway onramp Tuesday night.
The footage still hasn't been recovered a month after the early-morning San Fernando Valley break in.
As part of a $16 million, multi-pronged scam, a San Fernando Valley man laundered millions.
A man was killed in a hit-and-run crash in Sun Valley Tuesday morning.
A brush fire broke out in the Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area Tuesday afternoon.
One suspect was arrested at the scene, and the other was found a short time later.
An SUV nearly hit a crowd of people eating dinner outside a Ventura Boulevard restaurant when it slammed into the building next door.
The person who fatally stabbed a man in the San Fernando Valley Monday night remains at large, police said Tuesday.
Raj Matharu, 31, of Northridge tried to travel from Los Angeles to Sydney with suitcases filled with meth-soaked clothing, prosecutors said.
Firefighters said that one of the victims was declared dead at the scene. He has not yet been identified.
Two men, ages 19 and 30, were pronounced dead on arrival, a fire official said.
The suspect struck two parked cars and two people in Studio City, then fled south on Laurel Canyon Boulevard.
The worker said her hours were cut and she was fired after reporting a coworker’s repeated advances.
A fire broke out at a Lake Balboa home in the San Fernando Valley Friday afternoon.
The former employee claimed she was harassed, overworked and replaced with a younger, non-Filipino worker.
The collision happened at roughly 10:40 p.m. on the northbound side of the highway.
Burglars took off with every piece of gold jewelry the store had, every luxury watch and multiple other irreplaceable items.
Police tracked the suspects across state lines after tying them to burglaries in the San Fernando Valley and beyond.
A woman was shot after leading police on a chase through the San Fernando Valley on Monday, police said.