Author Archives: City News Service

A Muslim civil liberties group sued the city of Long Beach and its police chief today on behalf of a woman who allegedly had her religious head scarf forcibly removed by a local police officer.

Sheriff Jim McDonnell, who is suffering his first major embarrassment as sheriff over the departure of his chief of staff because of racially insensitive emails, says he will turn the episode into a teaching moment for his department.

A woman is suing the Getty Foundation, alleging she was denied an undergraduate internship with the institution because she is white.

A man who allegedly posed as an Uber driver and lured a woman into his SUV in the Westlake District of Los Angeles pleaded not guilty today to kidnapping and raping her

Hundreds of unionized janitors and their supporters
marched through the streets of downtown Los Angeles today in a sign of
solidarity in advance of a contract-negotiation deadline that could lead to a
strike as early as next week

Police asked for the public’s help today to find a
23-year-old woman who went missing in South Los Angeles

Authorities today sought public help to find three
juvenile siblings reported missing since Monday from the south Los Angeles
area