A Texas woman who snatched her daughter from a Thousand Palms elementary school in a custody dispute with the girl’s father was sentenced Friday to three years of felony probation. Sara Lee Almodovar, ...

A suspect who allegedly injured a resident during a 2021 burglary was in custody Friday. Officials received a report of a residential break-in near the 72000 block of Mesa View Drive at 4 a.m. Aug. 15 ...

Next week’s potential resentencing hearing in the case of Erik and Lyle Menendez has been postponed, and a hearing on the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office’s motion to withdraw a resentencing ...

Mayor Karen Bass previously approved a merit-based pay raise of 2.5% for former Fire Chief Kristen Crowley — weeks later firing her over what Bass characterized as leadership failures related to ...

A 29-year-old man made his first appearance in court Friday on charges of raping a woman in Newport Beach. Lanelray Depaz of Newport Beach was charged March 6 with a count of sexual penetration by ...

Authorities sought the public’s assistance Friday in locating two suspects responsible for the murder of a 42-year-old man shot dead in the Westmont area of South Los Angeles five years ago. The ...

A former Desert Hot Springs city councilman who damaged a young man’s car in a fit of rage following a roadway encounter was sentenced Friday to 12 months’ probation and ordered to pay the victim ...

The burn scar areas from the Palisades fire have triggered mudslides due to recent rainfall, resulting in an immediate hard road closure for community safety, authorities announced Friday. The order ...

A woman is suing the Montebello Unified School District, alleging she was sexually abused as a minor more than two decades ago by a math teacher who later took his own life, according to court filings ...

The Los Angeles Police Department Friday mourned the death of Martin Pomeroy, a man who spent 32 years rising up the ranks to deputy chief and came out of retirement in 2002 to serve as interim police ...