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Firefighters rescued two people from a burning home in North Hollywood early Wednesday morning, a fire that killed three cats and left a dog unresponsive before first responders managed to resuscitate the pet.
A stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu shut down Wednesday morning after a man allegedly assaulted a deputy during a traffic stop, leading to a standoff that lasted more than five hours.
More than 12 million gallons of raw sewage spilled into Santa Monica Bay three years ago, leading to closed beaches and public outcry over the environmental fallout. Now, the city of LA has agreed to spend $20.8 million in connection with the massive spill.
LAPD detectives are asking for the public's help finding the killer of a 44-year-old man who was violently assaulted in South Los Angeles earlier this month.
Law enforcement officials arrested a 13-year-old boy after receiving several reports about a threat made online to Mountain View Middle School in Moreno Valley, according to Riverside County authorities. were made about a threat to a Moreno Valley middle school surfaced in a social media post online
Surveillance video captured two people arguing just before one of them shot and killed the other in downtown LA.
An Orange County woman who beat her 2-year-old stepson so badly that he was left with severe brain damage and paralysis of his entire left side has been sentenced to 12 years to life in prison, plus another seven years.
A former deputy with the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office was sentenced to seven years in prison for dragging an inmate by her hair and throwing her into another jail cell in what the judge called a callous and "unreasonable" use of force.
A criminal investigation led detectives to what authorities describe as a "clandestine drug lab" in Fountain Valley, where they discovered hundreds of thousands of pills and equipment for manufacturing drugs, according to police.
Three people are dead following a violent crash between a motorcycle and a bicycle in Victorville early Thursday.
A 3.9-magnitude earthquake was reported near Lake Elsinore Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The investigation into "Friends" actor Matthew Perry's death has led to criminal charges against two doctors and a woman known as the Hollywood "Ketamine Queen."
A federal judge said UCLA failed to protect the religious freedom of Jewish students earlier this year by allowing them to be excluded from certain parts of campus during protests over the Israel-Hamas war.
More than a year after she was found dead, the first arrest in the brutal killing of 27-year-old Karla Terron was made Wednesday morning in the city of San Fernando, authorities say.
Flames tore through a strip mall in Anaheim as firefighters worked to put out the blaze Wednesday morning.