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A man who climbed on top of an occupied bus was taken into custody after a bizarre standoff in downtown Los Angeles early Thursday. Video from the scene, recorded before police arrived, shows a man with a large speaker standing on top of a Foothill Transit bus and shouting at passersby near Figueroa Street and […]

More than 2,300 people who died in Los Angeles County but whose bodies remain unclaimed will be laid to rest Thursday in a common grave during an interfaith ceremony in Boyle Heights that has taken place annually for well over a century. The Ceremony to Commemorate the Unclaimed Dead will...

Sheriff's investigators Thursday were hoping an image of an item seized during the service of a search warrant will ring a bell with someone and help put it back in the hands of its legitimate owner.

Five people have been charged with being unlicensed contractors under the California Business Professions Code, 7028.16.

A year ago, vendors had set up shop across the street from MacArthur Park in Los Angeles. They were dealing drugs and stolen goods from underneath makeshift tables at their stands. Langer’s, the neighborhood’s historic deli, was threatening to leave for good. And assaults in the area were on the...

Two young men were sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the killings of a 19-year-old woman and a 17-year-old girl at a park in Montecito Heights just over a decade ago.

A young puppy began her life hidden away under a partially constructed house, spending her earliest moments alone in the quiet space beneath the unfinished structure. With no neighbors nearby, she went unseen and untouched, receiving neither warmth nor human care. She longed for her mother’s presence. Growing up...

Veteran criminal-defense attorney Mark Geragos believes the homicide investigation into the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez has entered an unusually secretive phase, revealing what he describes as major tension between the Los Angeles Police Department and the LA County Medical Examiner over the handling...

Editor's note: This story has been updated since its initial publication. (The Center Square) - California officials announced this week that state law enforcement seized $56.5 million of illegally-grown marijuana plants in November, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom's office. State agencies conducted three raids in...

According to the Los Angeles Police Department, after three to four suspects smashed the front glass door of the restaurant in the 23300 block of Mulholland Drive, they tunneled their way through the wall into the Cards & Coffee trading cards shop.