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The Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved a $3.75 million payout to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit against sheriff’s deputies who shot and killed a 16-year-old boy last year in the Westmont neighborhood of South Los Angeles.

Sheriff’s detectives were investigating the shooting death of a man Sunday in Compton, authorities said.

A man allegedly stabbed his sister and lunged at police officers with a knife, who opened fire and killed the suspect, on Saturday.

A man was fatally struck Saturday morning by a hit-and- run motorist in Lancaster.

An attorney representing the family of a 10-year-old boy who was allegedly tortured and murdered by his mother and her boyfriend in Lancaster called Tuesday for a criminal investigation into social workers who investigated allegations of abuse in the household.

The Department of Child and Family Services visited the home of Anthony Avalos, a 10-year-old who died after suspected torture and abuse, multiple times dating back several years, according to documents obtained by the NBC4 I-Team.

Prosecutors said a 10-year-old boy who died last month in Lancaster after suffering physical abuse had been tortured for five or six days and his younger siblings were forced to watch and participate in the beatings.

The number of threats of violence reported at LA junior high and high school campuses increased by about 70 percent during the school year that ended this month.

Authorities arrested the boyfriend of a mother of a 10-year-old Lancaster boy on suspicion of murder Wednesday after suspected physical and sexual abuse, NBC4 has learned.

A 10-year-old boy may have come out as gay in recent weeks, and authorities are investigating whether homophobia played a role in his death, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services.

A new lawsuit contends the teen killed last February in a deputy-involved shooting was unarmed. The LA Sheriff’s Department has said it believes the teen had a gun that may have been taken by someone in the crowd that gathered afterwards, if the teen had not gotten rid of it earlier during the foot pursuit. Such a gun was not...

Sheriff’s detectives arrested a suspect Monday in the strangulation death of a man whose body was found in Valencia, authorities said.