Palmdale News

A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy pleaded not guilty Monday to assaulting an inmate in the back of a patrol car, a charge brought nearly two years after the alleged incident occurred.

Vandals broke into a Palmdale church and trashed it, causing an estimated $50,000 worth of damage to the building.

The wreck happened at 11:09 a.m. Saturday, May 4, near along a dirt portion of Duncan Canyon Road near Sierra Avenue.

The suspect was wearing a wig, women's clothing and bra when he was found in a mall storage area, according to deputies Jason Pomare, 33, is suspected of dressing like a woman and carrying a camera inside her purse to allegedly film customers at a Palmdale Macy's store while they were changing.

In light of a 63-year-old woman being mauled to death by pit bulls in the high desert community of Littlerock, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors today asked staffers today to evaluate a proposed change in the county's definition of a dangerous dog.

VICTORVILLE A property owner says a new gas station is planned for the corner of Palmdale Road and Park Avenue, bringing the rundown property back to life.

A Palmdale man has been arrested for allegedly videotaping women in a Macy's restroom while dressed as a woman.

The 15-year-old daughter of the late Michael Jackson has developed a close bond with her birth mother, Debbie Rowe, over recent weeks and has now dropped the bombshell on the Jackson household that she wants to spend the summer holiday at Debbie's horse ranch in Palmdale, California.

It was first publicly known as the A-11, then the YF-12A, but it actually began life in total secrecy as the AF-12. We'll call it the YF-12A because that's what its buyer, the U.S. Air Force, designated it and it was just one of the many derivatives of the Lockheed-built CIA-funded A-12 series of aircraft that ultimately led to the creation of the ... (more)

The Southland again will bake in dry heat Monday, creating what the National Weather Service called an "elevated fire danger" falling short of red flag conditions.

The aircraft and aerospace industries have been cash crops for the desert town of Palmdale, Calif., since the 1950s.

But on the day of the year that people around the world celebrate their mothers, Debbie Rowe spent her time alone with her horses at her farm in Palmdale, California on Sunday.

Los Angeles County Animal Care and Control and Sheriff personnel congregate near the area where a 63-year-old female jogger was attacked and killed by four pit bulls near Avenue S and 115th Street East in Palmdale, Calif.

A pack of dogs remained under quarantine at a Mojave Desert shelter on Friday as investigators tried to determine whether they were involved in a mauling that killed a jogger.

The fatal mauling of a woman in the High Desert community of Littlerock is just one of several recent pit bull attacks raising concern about the breed and whether stricter regulations should be in place.

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Worldwide levels of the chief greenhouse gas that causes global warming have hit a milestone, reaching an amount never before encountered by humans, federal scientists said Friday.

A jogger was killed after being mauled by four pit bulls Thursday in Southern California.

Authorities were searching for what were described as 'vicious' pit bull dogs Thursday after a woman was fatally attacked in Antelope Valley.

A man who got hit by a bus while making a left turn on his scooter has posted first-person footage of the incident to YouTube.