Newly sworn-in LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell voiced concern about the perception of disorder in the city and said crimes are going ...

Four Los Angeles residents have been arrested after faking a bear attack for insurance payouts. They claimed a bear had ...

Actress Chanel Banks has been found safe, the Los Angeles Police Department tells KTLA 5. Banks, best known for her roles in ...

Tough-on-crime proposals and politicians won in California, Arizona, Georgia, and elsewhere across the country.

Criminal justice policy advocates caution against viewing the election results as a referendum against reform.

State officials announced Thursday that more than 300 California-based nonprofits, including synagogues, mosques and Black ...

The Chicago drill rapper (real name Durk Banks) was arrested last month for his alleged involvement in a murder-for-hire plot ...

One driver was dead and another injured after a fiery head-on crash Thursday morning when two vehicles collided on a rural ...

From 1995 to 2003, an unknown attacker raped or attempted to rape 13 girls and women in and around Spartanburg, South ...

A California teenager has pleaded guilty to four federal charges ... Issuing a threat over social media, by text message or ...

As calls grow for the Menendez brothers to be released from prison, the incoming Los Angeles County district attorney says he ...

Even San Francisco, a liberal bastion and conservative punching bag, has found itself caught up in the nation’s rightward ...