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All restaurant managers in Los Angeles will be required to withhold plastic straws unless a customer requests them, starting Tuesday.

New York City’s worker protection department said Thursday that American Airlines is violating the city’s sick leave law by retaliating against workers who use sick days or not letting them use the sick leave they’ve accrued

Supporters of Baltimore’s embattled mayor have grown largely quiet as a chorus of resignation calls has dramatically swelled following raids of her government offices, her two city homes and other locations by teams of federal investigators carting out boxes of evidence.

San Francisco is set to become the first city in the nation to do away with criminal justice fees. The fees are intended to make criminals help pay for the cost of releasing them back into society.

North Tonawanda, a city just north of Buffalo, is getting attention for a new law that lets authorities send parents of bullies to jail for up to 15 days and fine them up to $250. The City Council voted unanimously Oct. 3 to amend an existing law to add bullying, harassment and underage drinking to the existing curfew violations parents...

The American Civil Liberties Union is suing over the actions of District of Columbia police on Inauguration Day.

The Los Angeles Ethics Commission ruled Tuesday that former Los Angeles Police Department Sgt. Jim Parker violated city rules by releasing an audio tape of his conversation with a “Django Unchained” actress during her arrest in 2014, and fined him $500.

A judge ruled Friday that a man at the center of the national immigration debate must stand trial on a murder charge in the shooting of a young San Francisco woman.

A judge declined Thursday to toss out the confession of a suspect charged with murder in a San Francisco shooting at the center of the national immigration debate.

The bullet that killed a San Francisco woman while she was sightseeing with her father along the city’s famed Embarcadero waterfront may have ricocheted before striking her in the back, a ballistic expert testified Wednesday.

The murder suspect at the center of a national immigration debate admitted to shooting and killing a young Bay Area woman out for an evening stroll with her father, a homicide investigator testified Tuesday.

In a big win for residents who have been fighting the city of Santa Clarita over their skyrocketing rent, the city council voted this week in favor of strict rent control proposals at area mobile home parks.

A major win for some folks who’ve been fighting the city of Santa Clarita over their skyrocketing rent. Randy Mac reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 25, 2015.

A new ban being proposed in San Francisco may outlaw exotic animal performances in the city.

A shooting this week at a San Bernardino marijuana shop is part of a larger problem, police say, as they tackle a growing number of illegal pop-up pot shops.

Surveillance video could be the key to finding two men wanted in the shooting death of a security guard at a marijuana dispensary. Lolita Lopez reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015.