Los Angeles County News

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection says the blaze began at 12:20 p.m. Thursday north of State Route 79, east of the town of Julian.

In a recently released statement, the Pasadena Police Officers Association said that two of its members have been wrongly accused of hiding exculpatory evidence.

Los Angeles police have obtained the decades-old taped conversations between a Manson family disciple and his attorney, officials confirmed Thursday.

The bill, which a committee will consider Friday, would require studios to ensure that performers are safe from sexually transmitted diseases by wearing condoms or other protective barriers during filming.

California authorities have arrested a 31-year-old Kansas resident who's accused of helping coordinate gang activities in Los Angeles.

Continuing a public-private partnership, the Board of Supervisors approved a 20-year agreement with the Los Angeles County Arboretum Foundation for the operation of the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden.

The cost of the fighting the brush fire that raced across the foothills just above Monrovia last month was approximately $1.7 million according to the State Emergency Management Agency.

Los Angeles County Sheriff's detectives and the Coroner's Special Operations Team resumed digging in the backyard of a Glendora home Thursday in connection to a 35-year-old cold case disappearance.

It's the only program in Central Texas offering free rides for Waco ISD middle and high school students as long as they show a school ID.

Police and sheriff's detectives are searching at a home in a Los Angeles suburb in the case of a woman who disappeared in 1978.

Authorities say a 51-year-old man has been arrested after claiming to be a member of the Walt Disney family and giving away invalid Disneyland passes.

Two men died and another man was injured Wednesday following a two-vehicle crash involving a big rig on a transition road between the 60 and 71 freeways, authorities said.

Finally , someone has come up with a fun and creative way to promote condom use without yelling and throwing scary statistics at the children.

Sheriff's deputies were called out after reports of a bear sighting at a residence in Duarte, authorities said Wednesday.

A proposal to tear down part of Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles to build a treatment center for mentally ill inmates has gained the approval of county officials.

A 22-year-old Hollywood woman convicted earlier this month of selling bogus Disneyland tickets was arrested again this weekend after she allegedly punched a loss prevention worker who caught her stealing beauty cream from the Sephora at the Americana at Brand.

After being convicted of false imprisonment, Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis told the Hollywood Reporter that his jury was "retarded," and should be killed.

Stern, 59, served a dozen years on the Rancho Palos Verdes City Council beginning in 1999 and was mayor in 2003 and 2008.

Detectives Tuesday arrested a man and woman in connection with a 1997 cold case slaying in Altadena believed to have stemmed from a dispute over CDs.

This city chose Eric Garcetti as its first elected Jewish mayor in one a number of political contests on Tuesday that reflected the city's diversity, as well as its numerous variations of Jewishness.