Van Nuys News

Jasmine and Jaime Vargas decorate their home for their neighborhood's annual 4th of July neighborhood celebration in Van Nuys Tuesday June 30, 2009.

The City of Los Angeles loves to designate historic-cultural monuments, from pallets stacked in an eccentric guy's backyard in Van Nuys to actual significant buildings .

From his childhood to his final weeks, Michael Jackson left his graceful footprints on the San Fernando Valley.

For Laurette Healey, having her neighborhood become a part of Sherman Oaks was overdue.

A half-mile strip of Van Nuys may soon become part of Sherman Oaks, according to a Los Angeles City Council committee that approved a petition today to change their neighborhood's name.

Los Angeles Police SWAT officers take a suspected burglary suspect in to custody on the southbound 405 Freeway at Roscoe Blvd.

Jurors deadlocked today on whether to recommend death or life in prison without parole for an admitted gang member convicted of murdering two people and trying to kill 10 others in the San Fernando Valley.

Police in Los Angeles were searching for a man who allegedly kicked and beat his 11-year-old son on a street in Van Nuys before the child broke free and called for help.

A 3-year-old boyA fell from a second-story apartment in Van Nuys and was airlifted to Childrens Hospital Tuesday night.

A 23-year-old man was charged today with murdering his mother, a Kennedy High School teacher whose body was found in the Reseda apartment where the two lived.

A new injunction granted Wednesday against one of the San Fernando Valley's largest street gangs takes the unusual step of singling out the Van Nuys government center, in addition to Van Nuys High School, as part of a "safety zone" needing special protection from gang violence.

An alleged gang member with a tattoo on his head is arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Friday morning, Oct.5, 2007, for immigration and criminal violations in the San Fernando Valley.

A 25-year-old woman was critically hurt Monday after a car plowed into a bus stop in Van Nuys and dragged her body several feet across pavement, ivy and over bushes before it came to a stop between a tree and a power pole, police said.

A pair of suspected car thieves led police on a chase from Van Nuys through North Hollywood Friday night before being arrested.

I've probably been to a dozen barbecues at friends' houses in the last month, and the routine of burgers and overdone chicken is getting a little old.

A Los Angeles police officer was involved in a traffic collision in Van Nuys, an officer said today.

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A pair of men suspected in shooting were arrested Friday after a high-speed chase ended in Studio City.

Los Angeles Police Department detectives arrested three suspects who used a scheme to impersonate a police officer and rob victims throughout the Los Angeles area.

A man robbed a Van Nuys check-cashing business today and made his getaway on a bicycle, police said.