Detectives began at dawn Monday to search a landfill in northern Los Angeles County for evidence in the disappearance of Heidi Planck, a mother who lives in West LA and vanished after attending one of her son’s football games in mid-October.

The Los Angeles Police Department will create a task force to investigate follow-home robberies after the latest such crime outside a Hollywood restaurant.

A man described by police as an, “armed serial burglar,” was charged with more than a dozen felonies and pleaded not guilty last week.

The LAPD said Tuesday 1,357 of its employees, most of them police officers, have failed to respond to orders to report their vaccination status to the City, and Chief Michel Moore said those officers will be served with disciplinary notices this week.

Three men are sought in a home invasion robbery Wednesday night at the Southern California home of ‘Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ star Dorit Kemsley

The Los Angeles City Council Tuesday approved the city’s Covid-19 employee vaccination mandate, which includes an enforcement framework that could lead to the termination of workers who fail to obtain medical or religious exemptions and who remain unvaccinated by mid December.

A man suspected of leaving “Molotov Cocktail”-style incendiary devices at a subway station in Los Angeles was arrested Monday.

A federal judge in Los Angeles said Tuesday that the discovery of illegal drugs and drug paraphernalia inside a tool chest would be likely be admissible as evidence against noted political activist Ed Buck, who is facing trial on charges he supplied methamphetamine to two men who overdosed and died.

The California Highway Patrol said Monday it may begin collecting or tracking information about road rage after it was revealed, following the murder of a 6-year-old boy on the Costa Mesa Freeway in May, that the agency kept no easily-accessible data on when, where, or how often road rage incidents were being reported.

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has published a tentative ruling that it appears will stop the voter-approved Measure J from taking effect.