A teenager celebrating what should have been her sweet sixteenth birthday was gunned down by unknown assailants at her own birthday party. Ashley Caldera was celebrating with her friends at Northgate Park in Fontana Saturday night when two unidentified men opened fire. more ›

The numbers are in, and they are about $2 million higher than first anticipated: Occupy L.A.'s City Hall encampment, and its ultimate clearing, cost Los Angeles taxpayers $4.7 million, according to a report released today from City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana. more ›

The Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL) has decided to take their frustration to a judge, and has announced they will file suit against the City of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Police Department in response to the newly-implemented policies regarding vehicle impounding for unlicensed drivers. more ›

An intruder got all Spider Man Saturday morning to break into a condo in Marina Del Rey. The suspect rappelled down the side of the luxury high rise building and onto a balcony, and used a crowbar to break into an occupied 15th floor unit, according to KTLA. more ›

Thursday night, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck is hosting a community forum that will discuss the force's new procedures for interacting with members of the transgender community. more ›

The owner of BurgerFi, a farm-to-tray burger joint opening up in the former Laguna Beach spot that belonged to a KFC franchise, is looking to thank the mysterious good samaritan who found the $10,000 he accidentally left behind on a park bench. more ›

Authorities have identified a pedestrian fatally struck by a vehicle in Silver Lake late Friday night as 24-year-old Ashley Sandau of Canyon Country. The tragic accident happened at around 10:25 p.m. March 30, as Sandau was crossing mid-way from the 2800 block of Rowena Avenue, just steps behind her father. more ›

A teenager in Ventura stripped down to his socks, rummaged through his neighbors' cars and tried to hide behind some trash when police came after him early Saturday morning. Police got a call about the naked 15-year-old boy breaking into cars around 2:35 am. more ›

A man was arrested in Glendale this week after police caught him driving pantsless. Police said that during their investigation of Khan, they discovered that he likes driving around at night pantsless, looking for a cul-de-sac or driveway to masturbate in. more ›

Khadijah Baseer, the woman who was arrested last week on suspicion of prostitution for offering to perform sexual favors in exchange for Chicken McNuggets at a Burbank McDonald's is reportedly a transient who often causes disturbances at the restaurant. more ›

A Colton man died Sunday night in police custody after he was Tasered by cops. Officers responding to a disturbance call opted to use a Taser on 43-year-old Hutalio Serrano when the man did not follow the police's commands and resisted arrest, reports the Press-Enterprise. more ›

An LAPD officer responding to a call in South Los Angeles learned the hard way that he needs to be careful where he points that thing. 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 ›

The Los Angeles Police Protective League reports that LAPD Chief Charlie Beck shared with the Police Commission "assaults on LAPD officers are up 26.7 percent this year compared with 2010. He noted that as assaults on police officers increase, so do the number of officer-involved shootings - up 58.8 percent this year." more ›

Taco Bell's taco supreme might come with a whole bunch of fillings, but staples are not on the menu. A local woman has filed a complaint against a Santa Monica Taco Bell location when she said she found four staples inside her lunch. more ›

An elderly woman was stabbed to death in South L.A. today, and the suspect may be her grandson. Authorities were summoned to the 900 block of West 41st Street and transported the 89-year-old victim to a local hospital at 2:10pm. She died shortly after arriving at the hospital. more ›

Three people were arrested last night in San Bernardino for attacking police. more ›

At around noon today, a second large protest got underway in Downtown Los Angeles involving participants in the Occupy LA movement. The group has been moving down Broadway, and currently is near 3rd, where arrests are taking place. The Los Angeles Police Department have declared the protest an "unlawful assembly," according to a live news report on KCAL-9, and are displaying a show of force to control the crowd. more ›

Marcos Gonzalez, 28, has been on the run since Wednesday morning after he ran over the legs of a motorcycle officer with his vehicle. The 35-year-old officer pulled Gonzalez over for not wearing his seat belt around 9:30am. The men came to a stop in the parking lot of a shopping center. more ›

Authorities in Beverly Hills are waving off claims made by a woman who said she "was sexually assaulted by two men at a luxury hotel in Beverly Hills," according to KTLA. The alleged victim, a guest at the Montage Beverly Hills, says she was attacked early this morning in her room. more ›

A man dressed as a smurf got shot in the leg as he tried to defend his girlfriend and smurfette for the eve at a Halloween party in South Los Angeles. The suspect punched the smurfette in the face, and then shot the 25-year-old man in the leg when he tried to defend her. more ›

Paul Orloff, a Fullerton resident, has launched a Change.org campaign to bring the four Fullerton police officers who have yet to be charged in the Kelly Thomas murder case to justice. more ›

The man that Downey police shot and killed last night probably wasn't the armed robbers they were looking for, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department which is investigating the shooting. more ›

Police shot a man wielding a machete around 4 a.m. last night, according to ABC 7. Police responded to a report that there was a robbery at Beverly Boulevard and Berendo Street. They found a suspect attacking another man with a machete. The suspect ignored commands to drop the machete, police said, and opened fire on him. more ›

Following an argument with his wife, 36-year-old Jose Benitez of Fontana stormed into the bathroom where she was showering, and stabbed her multiple times, according to L.A. Now. The couple's two children, a 19-year-old daughter and a 14-year-old son, tried to stop their father. more ›

A 14-year-old autistic boy is missing after he deplaned a delayed flight at Bob Hope Airport. The minor was taken to the airport by his parents, and had been successfully boarded as an unaccompanied minor on his Delta flight this morning. more ›

The Occupy LAUSD movement kicked off their occupation of the Los Angeles Unified School District's headquarters in Downtown last night following a march to the building from the Occupy L.A. site at City Hall. Though they were confronted by police officers outside the building, the group managed to set up a small occupation site and spent the night on the sidewalk in protest. more ›

In North Hollywood, a man appears to have orchestrated his own death by calling in a disturbance to the cops, then aiming a gun at them, reports the Daily Breeze. The incident happened on Sunday at about 5:00 a.m. Julio Umberto Sandoval, 47, called the police to tell them that he had heard shots being fired into the air. Somewhere around that same time, he allegedly told a neighbor, "Goodbye, I'm waiting for the police to kill me. I love you." more ›

Better late than never? A year after the Fullerton Police Department raided the wrong home in a narco bust, Acting Police Chief Kevin Hamilton issued a formal public apology to the affected family at a City Council meeting. "This is a very rare circumstance," said the acting chief Hamilton. "I'm here to apologize to the Nordell family for the Police Department." more ›

In the wake of the death of Kelly Thomas, allegedly at the hands of officers with the Fullerton Police Department, Chief Michael Sellers went on paid medical leave, citing stress-induced high blood pressure. Now Sellers has been granted a 60-day extension of his medical leave. more ›