Category: Local Politics

A 50-year-old man was arrested today during a seven-location compliance check of registered sex offenders throughout the Palmdale area.

The Los Angeles City Council signed off today on a $1.5 million legal settlement for a Black police officer whose supervisor presented him with a cake for 20 years of service that was topped with a leg of fried chicken and a slice of watermelon.

A suspected car burglar who apparently broke into a Florence-area market through a skylight hid from sheriff’s deputies for several hours today until law enforcement officers went in to get him.

LOS ANGELES, Calif.- Bell’s former police chief testified today that he never questioned the legality of the $457,000 salary he was offered because he was continually assured that the city’s ex-chief administrator had absolute control over the small town’s budget.

The Los Angeles City Council gave final approval today to an ordinance allowing the city to offer rewards in “swatting” pranks in which people make phony reports to draw SWAT officers to the homes of celebrities or other high-profile figures.

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge today refused to give out any information about a panel of retired judges who decided how to divide $1 million in reward money offered for the capture of Christopher Dorner, the ex-LAPD cop bent on avenging his firing.

The daughter of a veteran Los Angeles Police Department sergeant pleaded not guilty today to three charges stemming from a crash that killed a bicyclist in Gardena.

Republican Assemblyman Tim Donnelly announced today he is running for governor in 2014, saying “it’s time for a new vision.”

A political action committee encouraging former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to run for president in 2016 will stage a fundraiser tonight at a downtown nightclub.

Dozens of county social workers protested downtown today to demand smaller caseloads, and their union filed a lawsuit aimed at forcing the county’s hand.