A standoff ended peacefully after an armed woman in her 70s held deputies at bay for 22 hours.
Linda Pawlik, estranged wife of actor Robert Picardo, was arrested on suspicion of accessory in a shooting death at a Woodland Hills hotel.
A three-justice panel found sufficient evidence of premeditation in Stephen Todd Joanou Jr.'s stabbing murder at Weddington Park South.
Students were kept on lockdown for about an hour while police swept the campus.
An LAPD Officer who shot and killed a Venice homeless man, was investigated but not charged with filing a false report last year.
A man who broke into singer Miley Cyrus’ Toluca Lake house was sentenced to prison Wednesday.
A gas leak was reported at the 12500 block of Landale Street, but when police arrived, they found what appeared to be a suicide attempt.
Michael Rodney Kane stalked and killed his estranged wife, stabbing her 41 times outside a West Hills home with their two children inside.
The CHP will ramp up enforcement efforts of all types of violations on the 405 Freeway because of the high rate of motorcyclist deaths.
A Hawaiian Airlines flight out of LAX was forced to return shortly after takeoff due to a possible fuel leak.
Police arrested a man and a woman who led them on a chase through several cities.
Los Angeles police will be on the hunt for drunken drivers with a DUI checkpoint in North Hollywood tonight.
A natural gas leak displaced more than 100 people and forced the evacuation of several blocks in Hollywood Saturday.
A high school student was hospitalized after being beaten by a group of 10-15 men shouting racial slurs in what police say is a hate crime.
An explosion in an underground electrical vault sent manholes flying, hurting three people and knocking out power to Cal State Northridge.
The gas company vows repairs after a creative study by environmental activists found nearly 250 locations where methane is leaking.
Police warned Southlanders today that a man has been selling fake Disneyland tickets on Craigslist.
A pedestrian died at the scene after being struck by a train on De Soto Avenue.
Former Los Angeles County Undersheriff Paul Tanaka, the current mayor of Gardena, and former sheriff’s Capt. Tom Carey have been indicted.
Members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department have all been accounted for following a large quake that shook the devastated nation.
City leaders go on the defensive in aftermath of the LAPD shooting of an unarmed homeless man in Venice.
A United Airlines jet had to land in LAX Monday morning with retracted landing gear.
Several units of a storage facility burned in the afternoon fire.
Singer Chris Brown came home Wednesday to find a naked woman had cooked in his kitchen, vandalized his cars, and practiced some voodoo.
A man was killed by a train in North Hollywood Wednesday while filming. It's LA's second filmmaker to die on the tracks this year.
Surveillance video shows a physical altercation with police officers leading up to the shooting of homeless man near the boardwalk.
Joshua James Corbett, 39, faces two dozen charges for allegedly breaking into the actress's home armed with a machine gun.
Kim Howe's stepchildren contend the former Olympian's negligent and reckless driving led to her death in February's Malibu Crash.
A 33-year-old Hollywood man was arrested Friday morning after stabbing another man at the Level 3 curbside, police say.
LA County Firefighters helped save a teen trapped underneath a fallen building since the Nepal Earthquake five days ago.
California ACLU released an app that would protect recordings of police interaction by instantly sharing the video with the ACLU.
A federal appeals court vacated a prison sentence for a 21-year-old who temporarily blinded a pilot trying to land in Burbank.
Wow! Police vehicles were in 483 crashes in just 6 months.
The accident happened at Sherman Way and Woodman Avenue.
Samuel Braslau was sentenced to seven years after bilking investors of $1.8 million in boiler room scam.
Former “Baywatch” actor Jeremy Jackson has been arrested for allegedly stabbing a man in Los Angeles.
Though the threats originated Baltimore, police nationwide are on alert, including here in California.
As crews worked to tackle a blaze in Granada Hills, a second fire ignited in Mission Hills. The cause is being investigated.
A gunman had barricaded himself in a Van Nuys apartment, after he reportedly trained the gun on random people in the neighborhood.
The bank robber told prosecutors that he had pulled more than 100 heists.