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Actor Edward Furlong was arrested again on Friday, May 17, after allegedly violating a protective order filed against him by an ex-girlfriend. Furlong is seen here in a police booking photo after his arrest for alleged domestic violence, the arrest which resulted in the protective order, on January 13, in Los Angeles.

Update@ 3:35 p.m.: A fast-moving fire scorched more than 250 acres of brush today near the Golden State Freeway north of Santa Clarita, prompting authorities to close a southbound lane and evacuate nearby homes as a precaution.

The Grand fire releases a large plume of smoke as it burns more than 3,000 acres of wildlands near Frazier Park on Wednesday.

Actor Edward Furlong tried to hide, but ended up caught and behind bars in California for allegedly violating a protective order filed against him by an ex-girlfriend, authorities said.

A man brandishing a "very large knife" was killed Friday during an officer-involved shooting inside an Alhambra police station, authorities said.

Co-founder and nurse practicioner, Debbie Bent, talks to Nash Helm, 13, and his mother, Sunshine, of La Mirada, during a physical examination at the American Indian Healing Center in Whittier on Wednesday May 15, 2013.

A history teacher, who was also the junior varsity boys basketball coach, at California High School in South Whittier is accused of carrying on a sexual relationship with a teenage student, authorities announced Thursday.

Soap opera actor Dylan Michael Patton faces a judge Thursday on charges he sold cocaine out of his Los Angeles home.

Police investigate a threat made to the East Los Angeles College campus which prompted an evacuation on Thursday, May 16, 2013.

A Compton firefighter is expected to appear in court Friday to face charges he allegedly set his fire department's headquarters ablaze in an effort to destroy evidence of his suspected theft.

Los Angeles County prosecutors say they've charged a former "Days of Our Lives" actor with selling cocaine out of his Agoura Hills home.

Investigators determined the victim got into an argument with a 56-year- old man that turned physical in the 1500 block of Eagle Butte Road around 2 p.m., said Deputy Kim Manatt of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Headquarters Bureau.

Los Angeles County Sheriff's detectives were investigating who scrawled racist graffiti targeting black students at Agoura High School, found on Sunday, May 12, 2013 and Wednesday, May 15, 2013.

A fire burns near Frazier Park. Astrid Rodriguez, owner of La Sierra Mexican Restaurant in Frazier Park, sent this photo.

A joint investigation targeting criminal street gangs in over a dozen separate locations in the East Los Angeles ara resulted in several arrests, authorities said Wednesday.

This is the bathroom in the 5200 block of Iroquois Avenue where Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department searched for explosives after a search warrant was served on a suspect who failed to check in with his parole officer.

A Los Angeles County sheriff's helicopter crew flew 60 miles off the coast on Monday to rescue a scientist with a serious leg injury.

The quake was located six miles south of Rancho Palos Verdes in the San Pedro Channel between the Port of Los Angeles and Catalina Island.

A man who had explosive devices planted inside tunnels dug underneath his Lakewood home was arrested Tuesday morning by authorities from several agencies.