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LAPD Officer Mike Martinez had stopped a suspected stolen car at San Pedro and 62nd just after 10 p.m. Monday. He says it's actually the second time in his law enforcement career he's been hit by a car – the first time was by a drunk driver.
The latest homeless count estimates 17 more people fall into homelessness every day in Los Angeles County.
Cellphone video of the incident shows Jennifer Bianchi, one of the women, repeatedly saying, "Don't touch me like that."
The proposal would restrict people from sleeping within 500 feet of schools, parks, daycare centers, homeless shelters, bicycle paths, tunnels, or bridges on school routes.
According to the criminal complaint, the defendants targeted victims in the U.S. and across the globe in romance scams and with fake emails from known businesses, all in an effort to get money sent under false pretenses.
A man and a woman had to be rescued from the burning home and were rushed to the hospital, where the man died. The woman remains in grave condition.
The 2020 presidential campaign will make its way through Los Angeles this week with the visits of three Democratic candidates.
Jonathan Charles Johnson, 26, was taken into custody Friday after he was spotted driving a blue 2004 Nissan Maxima that was wanted in the killings of Jose Flores Velazquez and Alfredo Carrera last Wednesday.
A prolific identity thief and her boyfriend are both finally in custody after two car chases and two aborted court proceedings.
The public's help is needed Wednesday to help police identify a job seeker who opened fire on a business in the 1700 block of East 111th Street on Aug. 12 at about 5 a.m.
Security video from a nearby business shows the woman crossing in the crosswalk, flinching as a white vehicle approaches. Police say after the woman was struck, she was dragged a few feet.
Tuesday is the first day of school for Los Angeles Unified School District, the largest school district in Southern California and the second largest in the nation.
Police say one of the three suspects tried to lie down next to a homeless man to try to blend in.
LAPD officials say two officers were on patrol at about 11:30 p.m. at Lombardy Boulevard and Alhambra Avenue when a man standing on a corner shot at them.
Two childhood friends were killed and a neighbor was wounded in a drive-by shooting in the driveway of a South Los Angeles home.
Antonio Ramirez, 45, pleaded not guilty on July 31 to one count each of elder abuse, resisting an executive officer and carrying a dirk or dagger, all felonies, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
Power went out to about 660 LADWP customers at about 2:50 a.m. Thursday in an area east of the 405 Freeway at Sunset Boulevard to Veteran Avenue and Bellagio Road.
There is a new effort to help ease the homeless crisis in Southern California.
A federal judge Monday denied a request by the city to dismiss a National Rifle Association lawsuit challenging a new law that requires city contractors to disclose any ties to the group.
The Los Angeles County Supervisors have voted to cancel plans for a new jail in downtown Los Angeles.
A dozen apartments near Lockwood and Virgil Avenue in East Hollywood were evacuated as police tried to make contact with the suspect, who was holed up in a unit in the 4300 block of Lockwood.
Eight singers and a dancer have told the AP that they were sexually harassed by the long-married, Spanish-born superstar in encounters that took place over three decades beginning in the late 1980s, at venues that included opera companies where he held top managerial positions.
Diaz was off-duty on July 27 when he went to a taco stand in Lincoln Heights with his girlfriend and her two brothers. While there, he confronted a gang member who was tagging a sidewalk and asked him to stop – and was fatally shot.
Fifty years after her sister was murdered by the Manson Family, Debra Tate found Margot Robbie's portrayal of Sharon Tate in the film "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood" bittersweet.
P-61's successful crossing is in the same general vicinity where another mountain lion, P-18, was struck and killed by a car in 2011 and an uncollared lion suffered the same fate in 2009.
