Los Angeles County News

A stranded Swedish family of seven, made penniless by airfare changes due to a family emergency, should be on its way home today, Sunday, May 19, 2013, thanks to sheriff's deputies and reservists sympathetic to their plight.

The continuation of the preliminary hearing of Nick Conway, the former head of the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Courthouse in Los Angeles Thursday, February 14, 2013.

A 39-year-old Pasadena man is accused of being drunk when crashed an SUV on the 134 Freeway, critically injuring a passenger, before fleeing the scene on foot with two young children, authorities said.

Today I had the opportunity to sit in on two meetings and network with a community non-profit group hosting the meetings.

Coroner's officials Saturday released the identity of a man shot to death by Alhambra police in the lobby of the police station after allegedly brandishing a large kitchen knife.

File - Construction workers build new homes in the Rosedale housing project in Azusa on Dec.

The collision was reported about 3:05 p.m. in the 17600 block of Valley Boulevard, just east of Hurley Street, Los Angeles County sheriff's Lt.

On a typical June day last year, 3-year-old Jolan Jackson was sitting at the dining room table in his booster chair waiting for his meal.

Photo above shows Mr. Warren Furutani, Los Angeles Public Works Commissioner, Consul General Maria Hellen Barber-De La Vega with Filipino Community Leaders.

After a lengthy discussion with city staff and Downey fire union representatives, the City Council on Tuesday decided not to proceed its negotiations with the Los Angeles County Fire District for fire and emergency services.

A former battalion chief for the Compton Fire Department who once appeared on a reality television show has been charged with setting fire to his own department's headquarters in an embezzlement scheme.

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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.