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Violence and pepper spray incidents spiked inside Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall in Sylmar after Los Angeles County started shifting young people out of the troubled Los Padrinos facility under a court-ordered depopulation plan. Union leaders, watchdogs and state inspectors say the rapid reshuffling strained staffing...

A memorial is growing in Playa del Rey in honor of a pregnant mother who died after she was struck and killed by a driver over the weekend. The woman and her family were on a bicycle ride Saturday in Playa del Rey when a driver struck her and one of her two children. According to the Los Angeles Police Department,...

A researcher talks about the risks of “less-lethal” weapons used against protesters.

Police believe the man died by suicide following the chase

Maurice Jewel Taylor Sr. and his wife, Natalie Sumiko Brothwell, who were convicted of brutally murdering their two eldest children and forcing their young siblings to view the bodies, were sentenced Monday. The gruesome events unfolded on Nov. 29, 2020, the DA’s Office says, when Taylor, 39, and Brothwell, 49,...

NEW YORK (AP) — Chuck Negron, a founding member of the soul-rock sensations Three Dog Night who sang lead on such hits as “One” and “Just an Old Fashioned Love Song” and hollered the immortal opening line “Jeremiah was a bullfrog!” on the chart-topping “Joy to the World,” died Monday. He was 83. He died of...

A investigation is underway Tuesday in Palmdale by Los Angeles County Sheriffs’ Department’s detectives surrounding the death of a man found dead in an open field. LASD deputies responded at approximately 8 a.m. Monday to the 3700 block of East Avenue P-8 and 25th East Street where the body was found, said LASD Lt....

CALIFORNIA – During a press conference on January 29, Los Angeles Police Department chief Jim McDonnell was asked if he was planning on enforcing a mask ban on federal agents.

A man is dead after a shooting in Paramount Monday afternoon. The shooting occurred at about 4:45 p.m. in the 7000 block of Motz Street, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. A man of unknown age was pronounced dead at the scene. Deputies have two people detained, but it’s unclear if they are […]

Educators in the Los Angeles Unified School District overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike after months of stalled contract talks, union leaders announced Saturday. Members of United Teachers Los Angeles approved the measure by a 94% margin, giving the union’s elected board the authority to call a strike if the...