Los Angeles County News

Samuel Ku, who runs AG Jeans alongside his father, says a European tariff puts thousands of U.S. clothing jobs at risk.

Los Angeles County's sanitation districts are no longer pursuing plans to build a 4,000-acre landfill near Joshua Tree National Park on former mine land.

Detectives capped an extensive investigation this week with the arrest of two men for allegedly human trafficking of three females - including a 16-year-old - who were forced into prostitution in Los Angeles and Orange counties, police announced Friday.

Law enforcement officers around Los Angeles County will be out in force over the Memorial Day Weekend on the lookout for people driving while impaired and committing other traffic violations.

Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies have killed a man they say pointed a gun at them during a chase in Compton.

A new report finds visitors to California beaches encountered mostly clean waters last year.About 93 percent of beaches along the state's coast that were tested for bacterial pollution last summer had good to excellent water quality.The organization Heal the Bay on Thursday released its annual beach report card, which rated the water quality of 445 ... (more)

Californians can now view a list of health plans that are competing to provide policies to the millions of uninsured residents who need health care coverage to meet the Affordable Care Act's deadline, state officials announced Thursday.

More than 111,000 cubic yards of sediment will be dredged from the bottom of a local spreading ground and a county park, twin operations that will involve a parade of dump trucks for at least three months heading to the Manning gravel pit in Irwindale.

Los Angeles County prosecutors say three former La Puente High School soccer players have been convicted and sentenced in the violent sexual hazing of fellow students last year.

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.