Pacoima News

One word can say a lot. In current headlines, one proper noun says too much to bear.

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A former third-grade teacher at Telfair Elementary School in Pacoima is in custody on charges that he molested four children, the latest suspect to be named in an unfolding sex-abuse scandal in Los Angeles Unified.

Crime reports are up significantly for the latest week in 10 L.A. neighborhoods, according to an analysis of Los Angeles Police Department data by the Los Angeles Times' Crime L.A. database .

Officers and a SWAT team were involved in a standoff with an assault suspect barricaded inside a Arleta home.

Crime reports are up significantly for the latest week in 15 L.A. neighborhoods, according to an analysis of LAPD data by the Los Angeles Times' Crime L.A. database .

Los Angeles police are searching for a young woman who allegedly tried to steal a patrol car while officers were busy dealing with a barricaded assault suspect in Pacoima.

PACOIMA, Calif. -- Police are searching for a brazen 20-year-old woman they say stole a police car Tuesday night from a perimeter detail near a stand-off in Pacoima.

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I've long considered Steely Dan the ultimate Los Angeles band. Proof? They're not actually from here, like almost half the city.

Three suspects committed the robbery at about 9:20 a.m. on January 16 on the 14000 block of Nordhoff Street.

Los Angeles city firefighters try to lift up a bobtail truck after it lost control from the wet roads and flip over on it's side on the north bound I 5 freeway at the 118 interchange.