Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman will allow prosecutors to seek the death penalty again in Los Angeles, undoing one of the signature policies of his predecessor, George Gascón. The move comes ...
With piercing brown eyes, a biker mustache, a gravelly voice and the build of an NFL defensive end, Freddy Escobar has long cut an imposing figure in Los Angeles’ political ...
Sheriff Robert Luna sued the county’s Civilian Oversight Commission this week, asking a court to decide whether the department should comply with the commission’s subpoenas requesting information about deputy misconduct ...
L.A.’s financial problems exploded into a full-blown crisis on Wednesday, with the city’s top budget official announcing that next year’s shortfall is now just shy of $1 billion, making layoffs ...
For years, it was an open secret: Brokers scooped up tee times at public golf courses across Los Angeles and sold prime slots online, profiting from taxpayer-owned recreation. Golfers complained ...
Los Angeles leaders are touting the latest batch of crime data as proof that the city is safe and getting safer — at least on paper. Homicides declined roughly 14% ...
For more than two months, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has faced lacerating criticism over her handling of the Palisades fire — her absence from the country when it erupted, ...
The chief executive of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has asked the utility’s board to spend around $700,000 on private security for her, citing an uptick in ...
When flames erupted in Pacific Palisades on Jan. 7, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was more than 7,000 miles away, on a diplomatic mission to Africa. Bass headed home shortly ...
A former top officer of the Los Angeles Fire Department’s labor union has been removed from his post and faces an internal investigation over allegations that he engaged in financial ...
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