Los Angeles County News

Nick Nolte breaks window to flee from burning home In this Aug 11, 2008 file photo, actor Nick Nolte poses on the press line at the premiere of the feature film "Tropic Thunder" in Los Angeles.

A former staffer at an upscale elderly home in Calabasas has been charged with torturing an 80-year-old resident who later died.

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Los Angeles County officials have learned they have an extra $390 million on hand, but they are hardly singing about being in the money.

A Long Beach mother who drove her teenage son and his friends to a fatal fight with a rival gang has been convicted of second-degree murder.

An unemployed accounting industry worker who was despondent over financial problems shot and killed his wife, three children, mother-in-law and then himself in an upscale home in a gated community, police said ...

A former employee of a Calabasas assisted-living facility was charged Monday with torturing an 80-year-old resident who died last November, along with elder abuse counts involving three other residents.

Adoption events will be held at four Los Angeles County animal shelters Saturday in hopes of finding homes for more than 200 Chihuahuas, along with other breeds.

The felony convictions of an MTA bus driver who embezzled $10,000 worth of day passes has prompted the agency to conduct an audit of its drivers and address accountability problems.

"We see America as a force for good in the world." The Weather Underground took credit for Vietnam War-era protests that included nonfatal explosions targeting the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol.

A 61-year-old man suffered burns Monday while trying to save his garage from fire in an unincorporated county area near West Covina, authorities said.

A Los Angeles County fire inspector says a house fire that killed a disabled El Monte man has been determined to be accidental.

Walter Eugene Smith died in the car he called home. The passing of a 72-year-old transient wouldn't usually garner a lot of media attention except his body was discovered July 22 in a Lincoln parked on a Pico ...

With nearly one in three Los Angeles County residents unable to fully read and understand English, the region must do more to prepare immigrant communities for catastrophes, city leaders said Monday at the ...

More than 133,000 Los Angeles County veterans and retirees have less than two weeks to file for their economic stimulus checks, or they could lose money they are entitled to.

Authorities say they're now investigating the deaths of a Simi Valley couple found dead near their car at the bottom of a Malibu ravine last year as homicides.

Friday's opening of Disney's latest family fare, "Beverly Hills Chihuahua," may be good for the studio's pocketbooks and moviegoers, but may not be for the four-legged canines featured in the flick.

Fingering criminals has never been so easy for Los Angeles Police Department officers.

A judge ordered a Texas doctor and his wife on Friday not to distribute videotaped footage of Anna Nicole Smith's breast augmentation surgery in 1994.

The great Taco Truck Wars of 2008 appear to have come to a close.

The Los Angeles County district attorney's office said Friday that it won't appeal a judge's ruling in August that threw out a law requiring taco truck operators to move every hour or face $1,000 fines and possible jail time.

Phil Greenwald, an attorney for the vendors, praised the prosecutor's decision.

'After all, they're not selling porn, they're not selling drugs, all they're selling is food,' he told The Associated Press. 'Carne asada is not a crime.'