'Shoot it like crazy': North Hollywood shootout photographer revisits the scene
February 28, 1997 began like any normal day for Los Angeles Daily News photographer Gene Blevins. He was sitting down with his first cup of coffee, gearing up for whatever breaking news Los Angeles...
View ArticleWhittier trees decked with blue and black ribbons in memory of Officer Keith...
WHITTIER >> Trees along Greenleaf Avenue in Uptown Whittier were festooned with blue and black ribbons Monday afternoon, just one week following the first killing of a Whittier Police officer in...
View ArticleAfghan official: Policeman turns gun on colleagues, kills 11
KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN >> An Afghan policeman turned his rifle on his colleagues at a checkpoint in southern Helmand province, killing 11 of them before fleeing the scene, officials said...
View ArticleJewish Community Center bomb threat evacuates 1,000 in Irvine
IRVINE - About 1,000 people were evacuated Monday from the Merage Jewish Community Center of Orange County and its Tarbut V'Torah school following a bomb threat, police said.A threat was phoned into...
View ArticleA third West Covina church was tagged with spray-painted bible verses, police...
A third church in West Covina was vandalized over the weekend with spray-painted Bible verses and other phrases, authorities said Tuesday.West Covina Police Cpl. Rudy Lopez said officials at Christ...
View ArticleSupervisors offer $10,000 reward for info on fatal shooting of Duarte man
DUARTE >> The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is offering $10,000 for information leading to the arrest or conviction of whoever was behind the murder of a Duarte man shot to death in...
View ArticleEx-LA County Sheriff Lee Baca called FBI probe into jails a 'chess game'
It was a "chess game" between two law enforcement agencies.That's how former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca described the FBI's actions when they bypassed protocols set in place by high-ranking...
View ArticleFormer Schurr High School tennis coach convicted of having sexual...
A former tennis coach at Schurr High School in Montebello was convicted of having a sexual relationship with an underage female student Tuesday, authorities said.Timothy Van Phuoc Dang, 27, of West...
View ArticleCoachella festival website hacked, users' personal data stolen
The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival has been hacked.Producers sent an email Tuesday afternoon warning about a breach to users who had created accounts for the desert event.It says that...
View ArticleFollowing suspected gun battle, Pasadena police arrest three, recover handgun
PASADENA >> Police arrested three suspects and seized a handgun after gunshots rang out late Tuesday, striking at least one car but resulting in no injuries, authorities said.The shooting, which...
View ArticleMan beaten and robbed after using ATM in Pasadena
PASADENA >> An attacker clubbed a man in the head and robbed him after the victim used an ATM in Pasadena early Wednesday morning, police said.The crime unfolded about 4:40 p.m. at
View ArticleGang member charged in slaying of Whittier police officer, cousin
WHITTIER >> Prosecutors filed capital murder and other charges Wednesday against a gang member and probationer accused of killing one Whittier police officer and wounding another last month after...
View ArticleEx-LA deputy believed orders to obstruct FBI probe came from former Sheriff...
The mission behind hiding Anthony Brown, a Los Angeles County inmate-turned-FBI-informant, had a name: Operation Pandora's Box.The Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy who came up with the label told a...
View ArticleAnger and fear as Jewish communities face more threats
It's a grim routine, and on Monday it played out again.Four Jewish Community Centers - in Irvine, Long Beach, Los Angeles and La Jolla - were among the 39 Jewish centers nationally to receive bomb...
View Article4 suspects sought in connection with residential burglaries in San Gabriel
SAN GABRIEL >> At least four suspects wanted in connection with a pair of residential burglaries in San Gabriel were being sought Wednesday after they fled from a vehicle that was being chased on...
View ArticleJudge: Proof that wife helped Orlando shooter is 'debatable'
OAKLAND >> A federal judge in California said Wednesday that it is "debatable" whether the government has enough evidence to convict a woman of helping her husband plan the Orlando nightclub...
View Article'Illegal' spray-painted on Latino man's van in Long Beach
Long Beach police are investigating after a Latino man said he found the word "Illegal" spray-painted in large dark letters on this side of his van this weekend. A second car and a nearby church sign...
View Article$10,000 reward offered for info in slaying of Duarte father
DUARTE >> County officials are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killer or killers who gunned down a 39-year-old Duarte man in front of his...
View ArticleRetired captain disputes ex-Sheriff Lee Baca over charges of hiding FBI...
A federal jury of eight men and four women heard former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca say he was not aware that his deputies had hid an inmate-turned informant or that they threatened an FBI...
View ArticleWhittier Police Officer Keith Boyer 'loved his job,' found opportunities to...
WHITTIER >> A career in law enforcement might make even the most positive of men and women donning the uniform turn to cynicism.Not Keith Boyer.That's what friends and colleagues in the Whittier...
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