An erratic pursuit by deputies through a Northern California town last week ended when the driver crashed her vehicle into a utility pole and launched into an impromptu yoga session in a field, sheriff's officials said Tuesday.
L.A.'s Ethics Commission fined former planning chief Michael LoGrande $281,250, the largest penalty levied against a current or former city employee. It is the biggest fine ever imposed by the city for a "revolving door" case.
A big rig crashed into the center divider near the 710 Freeway on Tuesday, closing parts of both sides of the 405.
The house that launched a neighborhood brouhaha in the South Bay is for sale.
The Orange County Health Care Agency reported 12 human cases of West Nile virus last year and one death.
Investigators are set to release photos of a car linked to the man who allegedly stabbed to death a retired Cal State Fullerton administrator who was working as a consultant.
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In a small town, it can be hard to be any kind of different. But sometimes a person can be so much a part of the fabric of life that he sets his own rules.
Homeless kids, chronic absenteeism, frustrated parents: LA Unified is back to school and seeking help
Wilfredo Vides was employed as a gang intervention counselor by a nonprofit funded with public money. He was also an active MS-13 gang member, prosecutors say.
New techniques to detect small earthquakes have deepened scientists' understanding of what causes bigger quakes.
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Women-only science programs at hundreds of colleges nationwide are coming under attack as sex discrimination against men
Members of law enforcement from across the state are expected at a memorial Tuesday for the California Highway Patrol officer killed last week when a motorist he pulled over grabbed a rifle and opened fire.
A burned body was found last week in a dry lake bed in Joshua Tree. San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department homicide detectives are working to identify the man.
Immigrant rights advocates filed a sweeping class-action lawsuit in federal court against the Trump administration Monday, alleging that lax oversight by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security has caused severe deficiencies in medical and mental healthcare, as well as discrimination against detainees with disabilities, in nearly 160 facilities across the country.
Jose Antonio Vargas Elementary School is thought to be among the first schools named after an immigrant living in the United States illegally.
Jury awards former Times sports columnist $15.4 million
Edgar Verduzco, 28, was arrested and charged with murder and related offenses in connection with a suspected DUI crash on the 605 Freeway that killed a family of three in 2017.
A judge on Monday overturned Sheriff Alex Villanueva's controversial decision to reinstate a deputy who had been fired for violating department policies on domestic violence and lying — a dispute that sparked a rare legal battle among some of L.A. County's most powerful elected officials.
The Los Angeles Police Department said in a tweet that the shooting occurred near Ottoman Street and Bartee Avenue.
An assailant was being sought after a man was stabbed to death on the first day of the university's academic year.
A judge has ordered deliberations to start over in the trial of two men accused of turning an Oakland warehouse into a cluttered maze where 36 partygoers died during a 2016 fire.
California's new use-of-force law will become effective in January and create one of the nation's toughest standards on when police can kill.
California's "red flag" law appears to have a role in reducing the chance of mass shootings, says a study by the UC Davis School of Medicine.