Authorities are investigating the death of a Monterey Park woman, and her husband appears to be the prime suspect. 39-year-old Chenan Bao's body was discovered with what Los Angeles County Sheriff's Homicide detectives are calling "suspicious marks" on it. Bao was three months pregnant. more ›

Anyone lose track of $500,000 worth of marijuana, bundled in 35 bales and left to float near the Marina del Rey harbor? "The bales were found floating in the water by members of the Los Angeles County sheriff's marine operations shortly after noon Wednesday." more ›

More details are emerging about the man fatally shot by deputies last night in Lancaster. The sheriff's department said that the man was unarmed and that there was a warrant out for his arrest. more ›

Deputies fatally shot a man who tried to flee from them during a bicycle traffic stop in Lancaster last night. Christian Cobian, 26, was killed last night just before 11 pm when deputies tried to stop him for committing a traffic violation. more ›

Deputies announced today that they found some interesting clues: it appears that the skeleton—whose gender is still undetermined—had a gunshot wound to the skull, and there was a handgun nearby. more ›

The ACLU is suing the Sheriff's Department, claiming that top commanders knew that inmates were being brutalized but failed to do anything about it. "This suit is directed at them because they have allowed deputies to go unpunished, covered up their behavior and for years made no effort to reform this broken system," said Peter Eliasberg, legal director of the ACLU of Southern California. more ›

The LASD deputy who allegedly smuggled heroin into jail via a burrito also happens to have been one of the participants of "The Academy," a Fox reality show in which he "was portrayed as the dim-witted class bumbler." more ›

Forget the file in the cake trick, how about getting drugs into the jail in a tasty rolled-up Mexican food staple: Heroin in a burrito. One Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy, "assigned to provide courthouse security," surrendered Wednesday for having willingly smuggled the drugs into the courthouse jail in a 2010 incident. more ›

While the drowning death of actress Natalie Wood was re-opened for investigation around the time of the fatal accident's 30-year anniversary, today the L.A. County Sheriff's Department says they have found no new evidence indicating foul play. more ›

We haven't been hearing much about the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department investigation into Natalie Wood's death, which was reopened with great fanfare last November. That is until yesterday when someone from Access Hollywood asked the Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore about whatever happened to that Natalie Wood case. more ›

A shooting yesterday in Lake View Terrace has left a parole officer hospitalized in "serious but stable condition," according to City News Service. The suspect is 43-year-old Steven Hoff, reports the L.A. Times, a parolee who allegedly shot at the law enforcement officers who were out looking for him Wednesday afternoon. more ›

Harry Burkhart, the suspected arsonist behind 53 car fires set over a four-day period last week in Los Angeles, is likely to be arraigned today, and prosecutors will reveal this morning just what and how many charges he will face. more ›

Officials from multiple agencies held a press conference this evening to share information about the arrest of a suspect in a series of 53 arson fires set in the city of Los Angeles, as well as in Burbank and West Hollywood, over the past four days. more ›

At a press conference that got underway shortly after Noon today, the Joint Task Force investigating the rash of arson fires that have been set over the last four days in Los Angeles announced that the "person of interest" has in fact been arrested, but the investigation remains ongoing. more ›

Hey you. Yeah, the one with the gun all loaded and pointed up to the sky. Resist the urge to pull the trigger at 12:01 a.m. on January 1, 2012. It's a pretty simple scientific principle: What goes up must come down. more ›

Tyler Okonma, a 20-year-old rapper who goes by the stage name "Tyler the Creator," created a ruckus on Sunset Boulevard last night when he was arrested for "allegedly vandalizing sound equipment and attacking a sound engineer at the Roxy nightclub in West Hollywood," according to KTLA. more ›

Who shot Jeffrey Tidus remains a mystery to Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department detectives, who have been working on the puzzling case since the lawyer was gunned down in his own driveway on December 7, 2009. Now the L.A. County Board of Supervisors have approved a $10,000 reward for information leading to a conviction in this unsolved homicide case. more ›

Of the 292 people arrested during last week's raid on the Occupy LA encampment, so far 15 have filed formal complaints against the Los Angeles Police Department regarding how they were treating during their detainment. more ›

Renee Strauss' fancy wedding dresses and star-treatment customer service may have landed her a TLC reality show, but her failure to pay the amount she owes in a lawsuit judgment has landed her a raid and seizure of her merchandise. more ›

Eyebrows are raised anew as the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department re-opens the investigation into the 1981 drowning death of Natalie Wood, and scuttlebutt once again surfaces about the 43-year-old actress' tumultuous marriage to Robert Wagner. Now actor Christopher Walken, who was aboard the yacht with the Wagners the night Wood died, has hired a lawyer. more ›

Patricia "Bonnie" Pointer, one of the original members of the singing group The Pointer Sisters, was busted early this morning, says the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Pointer, 60, was arrested for possession of a controlled substance in the 1700 block of 125th Street, Los Angeles. more ›

Lieutenant Corina of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department held a brief press conference this morning to discuss the re-opening of the investigation into the 1981 drowning death of actress Natalie Wood. The LASD wanted to make it clear that Wood's husband, actor Robert Wagner is not a suspect, and, in fact, Wood's death remains considered an accident. more ›

News that actress Natalie Wood's 1981 drowning death case was being reopened sent a shockwave through the newswires last night. Wood, 43, died in the waters off Catalina after a day of boating--and drinking--with her husband, actor Robert Wagner, and their friend, actor Christopher Walken. Classified as an accident, new information could change the course of Hollywood history. more ›

Nearly 30 years ago, actress Natalie Wood, wife of actor Robert Wagner, drowned while boating with her husband and actor Christopher Walken. The Wagners' yacht, Splendour, was anchored in Isthmus Cove off Catalina. Though Wood's death was ruled accidental, today the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department announced they have re-opened the case. more ›

A six-year-old Monrovia boy claiming he was kidnapped Sunday could be responsible for a serious hoax, and now authorities say the child was "not truthful" with his case's investigators, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. more ›

When Sheriff Lee Baca said he didn't know jailer brutality was a serious problem, this didn't sit well with some critics. If sheriff's command staff kept Baca in the dark, why weren't their heads rolling now? And now Los Angeles Times has obtained clear evidence that Baca's command staff knew jailer brutality was a problem, but the department is still saying that Baca never got the memo — literally. more ›

Oh noes! This Halloween could find your treats laced with tricks! And in this case, tricks are not for kids. Yes, we're talking about drugs. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Narcotics Bureau is cautioning unsuspecting Angelenos to be on the lookout for candies, soda, freezer pops and other snack foods "containing untested amounts of concentrated marijuana." Zoinks! more ›

An officer in Downey shot and killed a man who happened to match the description of a suspect who had just robbed an ATM at gunpoint minutes earlier. Michael Nida, 31, was a father of four who was out, unarmed, to run an errand in his neighborhood Saturday night, while Downey Police looked for a suspect in the armed robbery. more ›

A 21-year-old Redondo Beach man was arrested last week on suspicion of swiping several personal items left with the remains of people interred in a mausoleum at a Ranho Palos Verdes cemetery. The suspect, James R. Haggstron, was spotted trying to open a glass cabinet (niche) that holds the deceased's personal items inside the Pacifica North Court Mausoleum at Green Hills Memorial Park. more ›

Kenneth Alexander was a Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy, assigned to patrol out of the Marina del Rey Sheriff's Station when he met a 15-year-old girl who he ultimately met up with again off-duty and allegedly molested her. more ›