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Family members of a 19-year-old man fatally shot by Fullerton police have filed a legal claim over his death, their lawyers saying witnesses saw him with his hands up as officers opened fire and disputing an allegation by police that he was armed.
An alleged carjacking suspect is in a standoff with officers and barricaded inside a business in Sunland Wednesday afternoon, police said.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to create a new county department for regional homeless services, stripping hundreds of millions in funding from a joint city-county agency that's faced audits criticizing its handling of taxpayers' money.
A Las Vegas man suspected in a series of shootings spanning 90 miles from Nevada to San Bernardino County shot and wounded a man sleeping in a car, a gas station clerk and a semi-truck driver early Tuesday, authorities said.
Kim Delaney, an Emmy-winning actor known for her role on "NYPD Blue," will not face criminal charges in connection with her arrest in Marina Del Rey in an alleged domestic dispute over the weekend.
UCLA and UC Irvine are among the University of California campuses where more than 20,000 health care, research and technical employees going on strike Tuesday over allegations of unfair labor practices.
A former fifth grade teacher in the San Gabriel Valley was sentenced Friday to four years in federal prison for possession of more than 400 videos depicting sexual abuse of children.
Four men federal prosecutors described as gang members from Pomona with ties to the Mexican Mafia were found guilty of murder and RICO charges Friday.
A 17-year-old girl was shot and killed in the Riverside County community of Mecca this week, authorities said.
An Irvine man was arrested after a 13-year-old boy died from what detectives believe could have been a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said Friday.
The Trump Administration announced an investigation Thursday into the California Department of Education over a state law that bans teachers and other school staff from being required to disclose a child's gender identity to their parents.
A man federal officials describe as a longtime LA Crips leader who used his prominence within that gang and others to run a violent mafia-like organization has been indicted on charges tied to a killing, extortion and millions in fraud, prosecutors said Thursday.
A Riverside man was shot and killed while walking home from work in the city's La Sierra neighborhood in what investigators believe was an unprovoked act of violence, police said Thursday.
A woman accused of fatally stabbing her wife, a Cal Fire captain in Riverside County, pleaded not guilty to murder in her first court appearance court since being arrested in Mexico.
More Altadena properties burned in the Eaton Fire have tested positive for asbestos — the mineral fiber linked to lung cancer and diseases like mesothelioma — than those being cleared in the Palisades Fire, Sen. Adam Schiff said Wednesday.