Just as their case was headed to trial, both defendants accused of attacking two gay men outside the Gay and Lesbian Center of Greater Long Beach on Halloween opted to enter guilty pleas and received prison sentences. more ›

A man in San Bernardino County has been jailed for brutally attacking his daughter with a shovel. James Shovey, 48, broke down the door of his daughter's home on Wednesday night with a shovel and then threatened to kill his daughter and her baby. more ›

A suspect the Los Angeles Police Department have dubbed the "Civic Center Slapper" has "struck again," say authorities. The LAPD describes an incident from the evening of January 27, when a 51-year-old victim who works as a US attorney was walking near Aliso and Alameda streets in the vicinity of the Federal Building. more ›

Young Lee, one of the founders of the popular Pinkberry froyo chain was arrested Monday on an outstanding warrant stemming from allegations he assaulted a transient with a tire iron. A few details have emerged about the alleged attack, including that some racy body ink on the homeless man may have raised Lee's ire. more ›

Surveillance video captured the violent robbery of a teenage girl in the lobby of her own apartment building. The Los Angeles Police Department describes the attack as "brutal," and are now asking the public's help in locating and apprehending the "aggressive and dangerous suspect." more ›

Bryan Stow's friends spoke publicly for the first time last night about the day their friend was attacked outside Dodger stadium. In an interview with NBC, Corey Maciel and Jeff Bradford described what happened. more ›

A bodybuilder under the influence of steroids and other drugs allegedly attacked a Southern Californian couple in their own home this weekend, and the victims remain hospitalized. 22-year-old Ruben Arzu was waiting on the porch of the couple's Colton home Saturday night, according to the SB Sun. more ›

Two brothers, ages 20 and 21, were jogging on a trail near Valley Center Middle School in San Diego County's Valley Center on Sunday night when four pit bulls attacked them. The dogs chased and mauled the victims, who remain hospitalized. more ›

A female hiker was the victim of a sexual assault on Halloween afternoon in Elysian Park, and the Los Angeles Police Department have released a sketch of the suspect, who may have tracked down his victim using Twitter. more ›

Authorities in Long Beach are classifying a "brutal attack" on two gay men as hate crimes, and today announced the arrest of two suspects, reports the Press-Telegram. The attack took place Monday night in the vicinity of The Gay and Lesbian Center of Greater Long Beach. more ›

Three separate beatings of homosexuals recently occurred in West Hollywood. The LGBT community is alarmed by the series of attacks, which took place within four days of each other. However, Mayor John Duran does not appear to be convinced that the attacks are actually targeting gays. more ›

A 67-year-old retired fire captain was enjoying his standard morning walk around 4am in Glendora when two pit bulls attacked him in the 1600 block of Sunflower Avenue. The elderly victim attempted to fight off the vicious dogs with his wooden walking stick but was unsuccessful. Lucky for him, Glendora police officer Matt Fenner was in the right place at the right time. more ›

Police are searching for a man who followed a woman into a Long Beach City College restroom and attacked her last night. The student was able to fight off her attacker and she was hospitalized with minor injuries. The suspect fled, but an instructor who found the woman alerted police, according to the Los Angeles Times. more ›

A wildly bizarre shoplifting episode occurred Monday afternoon at Discount Citi in Lancaster. When the store's manager, Jackie Huwey, caught a woman trying to steal a bag of men's jeans, she locked the culprit inside the store. more ›

They're cute, and they seem almost downright cuddly, but sea lions can be vicious. An elderly couple out for a swim off Venice Beach Thursday evening found themselves the victims of an attack by a sea lion, reports KTLA. more ›

A pair of assailants are now facing murder charges following the death of a man they allegedly attacked at a storage facility last weekend. Gary Haynes had been at the storage unit in the city of Orange Saturday night when he and a friend were confronted by two men who engaged them in a violent fight, according to KTLA. more ›

Police in Long Beach are investigating a string of attacks targeting gay men that have taken place over the past 10 days. There have been three assaults, which the Long Beach Police Department say are unrelated, reports the Press-Telegram. Two of the three happened in the Broadway Corridor, a section of the city that is known for being particularly "gay-friendly." Those incidents are considered hate crimes. more ›

A key witness to the attack on Giants fan Bryan Stow has died, reports L.A. Now. Matthew Lee apparently died from an allergic reaction to peanuts after eating a salad that contained them on Sunday. more ›

After a rash of coyote attacks on local pets -- some fatal -- the Laguna Woods City Council is considering allowing licensed personnel to carry firearms, so they could shoot potentially dangerous animals. The proposed ordinance comes after several dogs were attacked and two killed in recent weeks, reports KCBS. more ›

Coyotes in the Laguna Woods area are getting bold, and more deadly than usual, reports ABC7. Coyotes often attack pets at night, or in yards. But the wild animals in the OC neighborhood have recently attacked pets on leashes, while their owners are walking them, sometimes even dragging the owner along behind. more ›

Has this lady ever tried to grab and gobble your baby? The Los Angeles Police Department are releasing the photograph of and information about Natasha Hubbard, a 36-year-old woman charged with aggravated assault after a July 21 incident in which she yanked a 4-month-old baby from a stroller, slammed him into a pole, and tried to break off his arm so she could eat it. more ›

Authorities in Santa Monica are searching for a suspect who attacked a Santa Monica College student Thursday night. The attacker, a white male in his late 20s, was clad in what the victim said was a black wetsuit that covered him from neck to ankles. The assault took place at around 10 p.m. in the 1300 block of Pearl Street, near the SMC campus. more ›

An off-duty, non street-assigned, near-rookie police officer, Joseph Jarrett, intervened when a confrontation at MILK restaurant on Beverly Boulevard escalated to a life-threatening situation on July 1, according to NBC LA. more ›

57-year-old Brian Matayoshi and his wife Marilyn were hiking on the Wapiti Lake Trail when they encountered a female grizzly bear with cubs, according to ABC7. The couple saw the bear twice but continued hiking. Upon the third encounter, the bear charged the man. more ›

A father and son who allegedly loosed an attack dog on a robbery victim are now facing charges, reports KCBS. Richard Aragon, 51, plead not guilty to one count of mayhem, assault with a deadly weapon and assault by means likely to produce great bodily harm. more ›

Giovanni Ramirez, one of the men suspected in the beating San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow on Opening Day at Dodger Stadium, has been transferred to a prison in San Diego, according to ABC Local. more ›

The suspect apprehended by LAPD SWAT Sunday morning in East Hollywood in connection with the brutal attack on Bryan Stow on opening day at Dodger Stadium has been identified by authorities as 31-year-old Giovanni Ramirez, a Hispanic male from Los Angeles, according to a LAPD News Release. more ›

A 58-year-old man Hispanic man was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder with a wooden cane after an vicious attack on a 63-year-old man in San Diego, say authorities, reports KTLA. more ›

Police in the Sunday morning SWAT apprehension of one of the two men suspected in the brutal beating of Giants fan Bryan Stow were led to the individual on a tip from a parole agent, reports the L.A. Times. The agent alerted LAPD detectives of his suspicions "that a parolee under his supervision may have been one of the attackers." more ›

Early Sunday morning, around 7:00 a.m., one of the two assailants suspected in the brutal Dodger Stadium beating of Giants fan Bryan Stow that left the Paramedic father of two in a coma, was taken into custody as the LAPD SWAT team as they "descended on an East Hollywood apartment building with a warrant in hand," sources say, reports the L.A. Times. more ›