Los Angeles County officials say they have cut inmate numbers by 14% over the past year, yet jails still operate at up to 145 ...

Homicide detectives were called to the Los Angeles Men’s Central Jail Wednesday to investigate the death of an inmate, ...

Humberto Duran was arrested on suspicion of murder in 1993, implicated by a teenage witness who since recanted her account.

A man is dead and another is in the hospital after a physical altercation escalated into a shooting inside a Ralphs grocery ...

A construction worker accused of killing a 76-year-old grandmother during a burglary at a home where he previously worked has ...

A 92-year-old woman had heard strange noises late at night for weeks before the police arrested a naked man who they said had ...

Ramon Avila Pacheco is accused of stealing an electric bicycle that was parked outside a Camarillo home affected by the Mountain Fire.

The news that Jim McDonnell had been picked to lead the Los Angeles Police Department was announced early last month.

Arrested in 2009 when she couldn’t pay her bill at Geoffrey’s restaurant in Malibu, deputies released her the next morning. Her body was found nearly a year later.

The friend shared the location with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which sent out a helicopter to ...

Criminal charges are pending against several deputies, and possibly medical staff, in the death of an Oakland man who ...