Long Beach CA

Deputies seized nearly $200,000 worth of stolen merchandise and arrested at least six people in the latest crackdown on fenced goods in the MacArthur Park area and elsewhere in Los Angeles County, sheriff’s officials announced Wednesday. The first raid took place Aug. 4 in the 700 blocks of South...

Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger is calling on Antelope Valley residents to speak out against the proposed placement of another sexually violent predator in the High Desert community after state hospital officials recommended housing Harold Wachter in Lancaster. Wachter is a registered sex offender who was

Authorities say a student was found with a gun at a Los Angeles high school on Wednesday morning, the first day of the new school year.   According to a spokesperson with the Los Angeles Unified School District, a lockdown took place on Wednesday morning at Santee High School, located on Maple Avenue in the […]

A top-ranking member of the Democratic Socialists of America struggled to answer a question about violent criminals when pressed during an awkward televised interview.

A 53-year-old Los Angeles County man is back in custody in San Joaquin County after a judge ruled he posed a severe danger to society, ordering him held on $300,000 bail following a traffic stop that turned up more than 50 pounds of methamphetamine and about a kilogram of powdered fentanyl. Walter Merritt had initially

A standard pickup order turned into a swift law enforcement sting operations after an observant Huntington Beach business collaborated with local police to stop a high-value theft. Over the weekend, individual buyers placed a massive online order for multiple electric bicycles totaling thousands of dollars, arranging a

High tides and pounding surf are jeopardizing the coastline in Long Beach, where flooding has become a daily reality for many beachfront residents. Bulldozers and trucks worked overnight into Wednesday to shore up the seawall and build berms to protect homes and property. Sheets of plywood were lined up vertically alon

Firefighters have contained a three-alarm fire that engulfed a shoe factory Wednesday afternoon, sending a massive plume of smoke into the air and prompting the brief closure of nearby Fullerton Municipal Airport. Fullerton Fire Department officials received a call at 12:04 p.m. reporting a fire inside a building in th

A car crashed into a business in a Huntington Beach strip mall on Wednesday, with part of the vehicle ending up inside the store and sending patients to the hospital. The crash was reported in the 6000 block of Edinger Avenue, prompting a response from firefighters and building department personnel who had to assess th

The Brea Police Department recently joined forces with the Los Angeles Organized Retail Crime Association (LA ORCA) to execute a proactive, multi-agency “Blitz” operation targeting commercial shoplifting. This collaborative effort united local law enforcement and retail loss prevention teams to intercept active theft r