The body of a missing Orange County woman turned up in the county morgue, but her two sons are still missing. Authorities had been looking for Arlet Hernandez Contreras, 31, ever since someone sent to clean the Orange apartment where she lived with her two sons found a blood-stained carpet last week. more ›

Authorities in Orange County have launched a search for the bodies of a missing woman and her two young sons, and the woman's ex-boyfriend has been arrested on suspicion of murder. more ›

A 21-year-old Placentia man who had just given his girlfriend a ride to her college campus was injured in a car-to-car shooting on the Harbor (110) Freeway Thursday. more ›

A mama duck and her brood tried to cross the freeway not once, not twice but three times this afternoon. more ›

The driver of a vehicle that struck a tanker truck on the 134 Freeway, leading to a massive fire, was cited for a DUI and has been released. more ›

As part of the second annual National Distracted Driving Awareness Month campaign -- "It's Not Worth It!" -- the California Highway Patrol (CHP), the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS), Impact Teen Drivers and more than 200 local law enforcement agencies will crack down on drivers text messaging and talking on their cell phones. more ›

A man suspected of being pretty high fled the custody of the CHP last night. A taser couldn't stop him: he broke through the glass door of the CHP station in Altadena and ended up hijacking the car of a family that drove by. more ›

Drivers, if you're hoping to take the Golden State (5) freeway through the Grapevine, it's time to make other plans right now. The California Highway Patrol has closed the 5 Freeway at the Grapevine due to snow. more ›

A motorist who drove about 80 MPH into a crowd of people atop a Metro bus platform failed his sobriety test, the California Highway Patrol announced today, and those results prompted the man's arrest. more ›

A female estimated to be about 50 years old survived a jump from the Fountain Avenue overpass onto the northbound Hollywood (101) Freeway this morning, reports City News Service. The California Highway Patrol were notified of the jump just after 10:30 this morning, and when they arrived on scene, found the unidentified woman still alive. more ›

A woman attempting to run across lanes of the Golden State (5) Freeway was fatally struck early this morning. The victim, whose name is being withheld pending notification of relatives, was killed on the northbound lanes of the 5 near First Street in Boyle Heights at around 4:50 a.m. more ›

A wild car chase last night found California Highway Patrol and LAPD officers pursuing a man and a woman as they drove from Diamond Bar to South Los Angeles in a stolen car, and with one of the suspects allegedly firing shots at a police dog. more ›

Not many details to offer up right now, however the Riverside Drive onramp to the southbound Glendale (2) Freeway in the Silver Lake area has been closed by the California Highway Patrol following the discovery of a dead body in the immediate area, according to City News Service. We will have more information about the case as it becomes available. more ›

A former California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer collapsed in court today as she was found guilty of first-degree murder. Tomiekia Johnson, 32, was accused of intentionally shooting her 31-year-old husband, Marcus Lavar Lemons, to death on a Compton street on February 21, 2009. more ›

Kelly Keller, a man who led police in a high-speed pursuit in September 2009, has been convicted of murder for running over and killing a pedestrian during the chase. Dean William Greenwalt, 66, was struck while in the crosswalk at Don Pio Drive in Woodland Hills as Keller drove a 2002 Cadillac sedan while fleeing authorities. more ›

Put down that chicken nugget and cast aside your mascara -- CHP is cracking down on all forms of distracted driving this weekend. KTLA reports that officers will be patrolling streets and freeways from 6 a.m. today till 6 a.m. tomorrow, and they'll be in both marked and unmarked cars. more ›

Quite a few people in L.A. County failed to "avoid the 100" this Christmas, resulting in 138 DUI arrests as of 6am Christmas morning. The number of 2011 Christmas Day DUI arrests is up 55 from last year. more ›

Before you reach for your keys after that third glass of eggnog or that fifth holiday brew this holiday season, think "Avoid the 100." Drunk and drugged drivers will be targeted during a two-week campaign of DUI/driver's license checkpoints and hundreds of roving DUI patrols. Enforcement begins on Friday, December 16 and ends on Sunday, January 1. more ›

Los Angeles County, pat yourselves on the backs. Go on. So far over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, zero traffic fatalities have occurred. But then stop gloating and hang your heads in shame. DUI arrests have already surpassed last year's total, and it's only Saturday. more ›

If you're going to flee the scene of a car crash, climbing up a tree to get away from the cops is not necessarily a winning technique. A parolee gave the ol' tree climb getaway a late Monday night, only to have his plan foiled when he tumbled down in front of the police. more ›

A parolee who gunned it when he saw CHP lights in his rearview mirror last night is dead after leading cops on a high-speed chase through San Bernardino and slamming into three cars. Eight other people were hurt, including passengers in the parolee's car. more ›

When a law enforcement officer tells you to get out of the car, if you've ever seen even just one episode of "COPS," you know you'd damn well better get out. But what if you are a disabled motorist? Should you be treated any differently? more ›

A fatal officer-involved shooting left several lanes of the 91 Freeway in Corona closed overnight, backing up traffic and necessitating an extensive investigation. The shooting took place just after 7:45 p.m. Tuesday, when California Highway Patrol officers arrived at the eastbound 91 Freeway between Main Street and the 15 Freeway in response to a call of a single-vehicle crash. more ›

When you gotta go, you gotta go, even if it means getting busted: A man considered a "person of interest" in the recent San Diego freeway shooting spree was detained by authorities in Lake View Terrace today when he pulled over to relieve himself. more ›

Last week, the family of 67-year-old David Lavau located their loved one alive and surviving on bugs and leaves at the base of a ravine in Castaic. His vehicle had plunged off a mountain road a week earlier, and was located near a second vehicle that contained the body of a deceased male. Now authorities are hoping to identify the body, and that man's relatives believe he is missing Palms resident Melvin Gelfand. more ›

It didn't take long after the Angeles Crest Highway reopened in June for not two, not three but four drivers to lose their lives on the road. After the third death, Caltrans launched an investigation into those deaths to assess whether signage, traffic enforcement and traffic volume could have played a role in those fatal crashes. The agency found that it is the drivers — and not the road — that are dangerous according to The Burbank Leader. more ›

Saturday afternoon's fatal car accident along a stretch of Angeles Crest Highway is the fourth death since the road reopened in June following repairs from the Station Fire, says LA Now. more ›

An ivory-colored Porche being pursued by the California Highway Patrol took a scenic, albeit quick, tour of Echo Park last night as it raced northbound on Glendale Boulevard around 10:30 p.m., according to The Eastsider LA. more ›

The California Highway Patrol was called to the scene on the 10 Freeway in Pomona west of North Dudley Street at 4:21 a.m. today in response to a sighting of a body on the road. The victim, a male pedestrian thought to be in his 20s, is thought to have been struck by at least two vehicles, says the Daily News. more ›

As we mentioned earlier, officials have been traffic courting celebs to help get the word out about the short term end of the world known as Carmageddon. As if our prayers were answered in tight shorts and retro shades, Metro has announced a new Public Service Announcement alerting the public of the July 16-17 I-405 closure with the help of none other than our our hometown CHiP, actor Erik Estrada. more ›