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Thousands of Los Angeles County residents have signed up to receive e-mails and text-message alerts under a new program that provides high-tech notifications in case of an emergency, officials said Wednesday.

In this photo that was released by the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department, Actor Ryan O'Neal is seen in a mugshot September 17, 2008 in Los Angeles, California.

Riverside County authorities are seeking homes for 26 cocker spaniels taken from a woman who may have moved the dogs from one rental home to another for the past several months.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office says a man with ties to jailed evangelist Tony Alamo has pleaded no contest in a 20-year-old child-abuse case.

Authorities say at least three people have been significantly injured after a bus carrying about 30 people was hit by a car in Montebello.

Obesity cost California more than 41 billion dollars in health care costs and lost production in 2006, according to a report released on Thursday.

SACRAMENTO , Calif. -- Californians' increasing girth is crippling the state's economy, according to a study released Thursday.

Authorities say a 36-year-old man has died of swine flu in San Diego County, its fifth resident to die of the disease.

Rich Pedroncelli/Getty Images An assessor's office report said the housing slump has caused Los Angeles County's total property value to decline for the first time in 13 years.

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Authorities are investigating the death of a man who torched his West Covina home and shot himself as sheriff's deputies were preparing to evict him.

Health officials say two more people in Los Angeles County have died of swine flu, bringing the total death toll in the county to three.

Michael Jackson 's soul could very well be resting in peace now, which is more than anyone has been able to say for sure about the King of Pop's body.

A Texas man will face a charge of murdering a man in a Los Angeles suburb nearly 33 years ago.

Twenty more people have been arrested in an investigation that charges a Latino street gang with waging a racist campaign to eliminate black people from a Southern California city.A task force arrested the suspects on Wednesday.The arrests stem from a sting against the Varrio Hawaiian Gardens gang, which primarily operates in Hawaiian Gardens in ...

Police were unsure if the man died from being shot or from the collision on Interstate 70.

LOS ANGELES - A federal grant will help the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department resume clearing a backlog of DNA evidence from thousands of rape and sexual assault cases.

The FBI has opened a criminal investigation into the Inglewood Police Department's fatal shooting of 31-year-old Marcus Smith in May.

Investigators are focusing on at least five doctors who had prescribed drugs to Michael Jackson, in a bid to unravel the circumstances surrounding the death of the pop star, a Los Angeles newspaper reported on Saturday.

A A A' A 16-year-old boy killed while running from a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy was shot in the back without warning and never brandished a gun as authorities contend, an attorney for the teen's father said Tuesday.