The hospital employee who fatally stabbed a transient he'd kicked off the property has been charged with involuntary manslaughter, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. Solomon Lee Washington, 58, was arrested by Los Angeles Police on Monday for the slaying that took place on the grounds of Kaiser Permanente in Woodland Hills. more ›

Police in North Hollywood are investigating the stabbing death of a female transient whose body was discovered early Tuesday morning in a local park. The victim was found at about 2:15 a.m. at a baseball field in Weddington Park, per the Los Angeles Police Department's North Hollywood Station, according to City News Service. more ›

A man who was asked to leave a valley hospital was stabbed to death by the security guard who kicked him off the property. City News Service reports that the stabbing took place at about 3 this morning at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Woodland Hills. more ›

Pinkberry co-founder Young Lee pleaded not guilty today to assaulting a transient and is currently free on $60,000 bail. On June 15, 2011, the 47-year-old allegedly chased and beat a homeless man with a tire iron, breaking the man's left forearm and cutting his head. 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 ›

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 ›

A man has been arrested after he allegedly spit in the face of a Hispanic woman, then tried to run her down with his bike. The OC Register reports that 31-year-old Jonathan Michael Schmidt, who's white, rode his bike up beside his 36-year-old victim's car in Huntington Beach as they pulled up to a stop sign at 1:40 p.m. on Monday. more ›

A man in his forties thought to be a transient was fatally stabbed early this morning following a fight with two unidentified suspects in Downtown last night. The incident took place around 2 a.m. near the alcove of the Chase Bank building, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. more ›

A heated confrontation between two men identified as transients escalated to violence last night on the Venice Boardwalk, according to LA Now, and as a result, one man is dead and the other has been arrested. The fight took place just after 6 p.m. at Ocean Front Walk and Westminster Avenue. During the altercation, one man took out a knife and attacked the other; the "victim was stabbed eight to nine times," notes the Daily Breeze. He died at the hospital. more ›

Make that 433 years and four months in prison. And add on 21 life sentences, 10 of which that will be served concurrently. That's what the Long Beach Press-Telegram is reporting about today's sentencing of transient Charles Juan Proctor, who was known as "the box cutter" for attacking women working alone in Long Beach businesses. "I can say absolutely ... you deserve each of these 433 years," said the Judge about Proctor's violent attacks and kidnappings. "You shouldn't be on any street in Long Beach and Hawaiian Gardens and, in fact, you ought not be on any street in this country." more ›

Six days before the massive Station Fire broke out in the Angeles National Forest, a fire dubbed the "Lady Bug Fire" burned just six miles away. Los Angeles County Sheriff's detectives believe that much smaller fire was started by Babatunsin Olukunle, a 25-year-old Nigerian man and UC Davis dropout, according to KTLA. more ›

A crash between two vehicles left an apparent transient dead this morning during rush hour in North Hollywood. Around 7:53 a.m., the vehicles traveling eastbound on the 134 freeway collided, leaving the freeway over the side where an encampment was set up behind the McDonalds at Riverside Drive and Lankershim Boulevard. "He just happened to be there at the wrong place at the wrong time," explained California Highway Patrol Officer Miguel Luevano over the phone. more ›

What was a solution to prevent graffiti tagging on soundwalls became a problem as transients moved in. When Metro's Orange Line opened in 2005, the bike path walls had little growth around them, leaving them as a blank canvas for graffiti. Landscaping was planted to discourage tagging and it was a success for the most part, but when you have space and shrubbery, it also become shelter. As seen here, many have made it their home. more ›

Since May, officer involved shootings in Inglewood have left four people dead. The latest was Sunday afternoon when police were called to a report of a homeless man with a gun, which ended up being a replica silver handgun, according to the LA Times. more ›