Los Angeles County News

The drive to recall Assemblyman Anthony Adams, R-Claremont, has failed, state election officials said today.

The decision to move Johannes Mehserle's trial to Los Angeles County is a setback for the former transit officer charged with killing an unarmed man on New Year's Day.Jurors throughout California are typically sympathetic to police, and the former Bay Area Rapid Transit officer could've expected a leg up before the start of trial in most any ...

Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies say tips from the public helped lead to the arrest of a suspect who allegedly robbed a man outside a convenience store while holding a 3-year-old boy in his arms.

Since it was incorporated in 1957, Industry has been known as a different type of city.

Crimes motivated by hate decreased slightly in Los Angeles County last year compared with the previous year, according to a report released Thursday.

A motorboat has caught fire off the Los Angeles County coast. County lifeguard Chief Terry Yamamoto says the fire was reported Tuesday afternoon west of the Venice Beach pier.

Ryan Seacrest has been granted a three-year restraining order from his alleged stalker, Chidi Uzomah, according to the Los Angeles County Superior Court.

LOS ANGELES a " The University of California is expected to vote on whether they will reopen a troubled South Los Angeles hospital.After a slew of failed attempts, Los Angeles County supervisors have called the UC the last, best hope to fully reopen Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital.The UC Regents are expected to announce their decision during ...

Actress Faye Dunaway attends a tribute to director Norman Jewison at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on April 17, 2009 in Los Angeles, California.

A century-old anchor has been pulled up from the ocean floor off Santa Monica Pier in an area that was once a major shipping port.

The U.S. Forest Service should allow helicopters to fight fires during darkness, a tactic that could have been used in the critical first hours of the summer's gigantic and deadly wildfire in the Angeles National Forest, a Los Angeles County Fire Department report found.

The Los Angeles City Council has delayed a vote on a medical marijuana ordinance that would allow some cash transactions at dispensaries.

The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended an air and sea search for two people who may have been aboard a burning powerboat off the Los Angeles County coast.

A judge is again considering whether to unseal court documents stemming from a police search in Las Vegas following pop singer Michael Jackson's death.

Pop star Janet Jackson holds Michael Jackson's personal doctor responsible for her brother's sudden death and has told ABC News that a day does not go by when she doesn't think about her late sibling.

Gosh, how fast they grow up. It was only Sunday that the public got its first rides on the newborn Metro Gold Line Eastside Extension.

Los Angeles County's top prosecutor says he will target marijuana dispensaries that violate state law, even if the City Council does not ban sales of the drug.

Deputies searched today for a gunman who shot and killed a cyclist in Norwalk, authorities said.

This May 1, 1990 file photo shows Zsa Zsa Gabor in a courtroom in Beverly Hills, Calif., during a probation hearing.

Monday's venue for free swine flu vaccinations, the Home Depot Center in Carson, is expected to be one of the largest yet in Los Angeles County.