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The number of complaints filed by the public against the Los Angeles Police Department increased by about 8% last year, compared to the prior year, while the number of arrests went down, according to a report presented to the city Police Commission Tuesday.

Another major cleaning of sidewalks, alleys, parks and other public areas in downtown Los Angeles scheduled for Saturday will force the homeless people living near City Hall to remove their tents and personal belongings, LA Sanitation & Environment announced.

A series of four cleanings of the Sepulveda Tunnel, near Los Angeles International Airport, is scheduled to begin Monday and will result in overnight lane closures over four nights.

After eight years as the Chief Executive Officer, Michael Shanklin will be leaving his position at Kidspace on Sept. 30 and moving to Washington, D.C., to build a new children’s museum.

The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to place a permanent supportive housing project on land used as a therapeutic playground by an Echo Park nonprofit, which strongly opposed the council’s action.

As pro-basketball opening day approaches, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Wednesday that officers at Los Angeles International Airport recently seized 28 counterfeit National Basketball Association championship rings.

The Los Angeles Regional Food Bank announced Wednesday it has received a $100,000 grant from Starbucks to help alleviate hunger in LA County.

Los Angeles County supervisors and local business leaders announced on Monday The Fair Chance Hiring Initiative, which is aimed at encouraging companies to employ people who have been rehabilitated through the criminal justice system.

NBC 7’s Joe Little retraced the steps investigators took to show how a robbery suspect eventually caught, and the one piece of evidence that led the FBI right to the robber’s door.

Extended netting will be in place at Dodger Stadium when the Los Angeles Dodgers begin their next homestand Monday, the team announced Saturday.

A man was killed and at least two other people were critically injured Sunday morning in a crash in the Willowbrook community of unincorporated Los Angeles County that witnesses said involved a Metro bus and five other vehicles.

The first of a half-dozen ships have arrived at the Port of Los Angeles for LA Fleet Week.

Community activists and residents of South Los Angeles will march for safer streets today, along the road where a 15 year-old boy riding his bike in a marked crosswalk was hit by a car and dragged 1500 feet.

A 20-year-old woman is in grave condition and a 55-year-old man suffered non-life threatening burn injuries from a house fire this morning in the Vermont Square community of Los Angeles.

The man dubbed the “Hollywood Ripper” for the grisly slayings of two women in Hollywood and El Monte was sane at the time of the crimes, a Los Angeles jury found Thursday.

The sanity phase of trial for the so-called “Hollywood Ripper” — who repeatedly stabbed and mutilated two Southern California women, including one who was killed and nearly decapitated hours before she was set to go out with actor Ashton Kutcher — is set to begin Tuesday.

Jurors Wednesday began deliberating whether the so- called “Hollywood Ripper” was sane or insane at the time of the stabbing and mutilation murders of two Southland women, including one who was killed and nearly decapitated hours before she was set to go out on a date with actor Ashton Kutcher.

A 21-year-old man was killed and a 26-year-old man was wounded on Saturday in an early morning shooting outside a liquor store in the Montecito Heights area.

Jurors reached guilty verdicts Thursday in the trial of a man accused of fatally stabbing two women and trying to kill a third in a series of violent and calculated attacks at the victims’ Southern California homes.

Jurors began deliberations for a third day Wednesday in the trial of a man accused of being the “Hollywood Ripper” responsible for the deaths of two women, including a Hollywood woman preparing to go out that night with actor Ashton Kutcher.

Jurors deliberated for a second day Tuesday in the trial of a man charged with killing two women in their homes, including a Hollywood woman who was set to go out that night with actor Ashton Kutcher, and attacking a woman who survived being stabbed eight times in her Santa Monica apartment.

Criminal charges were dismissed this week against former Los Angeles Police Department Commander Nicole Mehringer, who was accused of being drunk in public following a traffic incident in Glendale.

There are a few opportunities this year to gaze toward the sky and just take it all in. We have dates of some meteor showers visible during 2019 in the Northern Hemisphere.

Miriam Brown director of the LA county department of mental health “start” program is helping families in LA County schools seek help from mental health professionals among concern of increased violence in schools.

All criminal charges have been dismissed against a prominent local Black Lives Matter leader arrested after a raucous Los Angeles Police Commission meeting last year, her attorney announced.

A Lexus driver was caught on camera holding up a sign that read, “Please let me in” as he attempted to merge into traffic while exiting a Los Angeles freeway.

Four strikingly similar attacks on women were all planned and executed by a skilled serial killer who studied the lives and California homes of victims who lived near him before savagely stabbing them, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

The Los Angeles Rams will hold their final 2019 training camp practice open to the public Sunday at UC Irvine, with all players available for a limited time after practice for autographs.

The online cannabis community Weedmaps will open the Museum of Weed in Los Angeles Saturday, hoping to give people a refresher on the up-and-down past of marijuana.

Power was restored Saturday morning to nearly 12,000 DWP customers in West Los Angeles who were knocked offline for hours because of a Mylar balloon.

Los Angeles residents can get up to three household cats spayed or neutered for free under a voucher program that will be offered throughout August.

Ricardo Breceda creates gigantic and impressive metal figures in a Southern Californian desert that have made him famous locally, nationally and even internationally.

U.S. News & World report Tuesday released its 2019-20 list of best hospitals and included three Los Angeles hospitals on its 20-institution Honor Roll.

There is a wide variety of delectable items that were created here in the LA area such as the French Dip sandwich and Doritos.

Los Angeles Rams coach Sean McVay is scheduled to speak to fans following Sunday’s training camp practice at UC Irvine, which will be Vamos Rams Day, celebrating the Latino culture of the Los Angeles region.

The Los Angeles Chargers will conduct a school supplies drive during their training camp practices Saturday and Sunday. Items sought include backpacks, pens, pencils, notebooks, folders, highlighters, crayons and glue. All items collected will be taken to Los Angeles and Orange County Boys & Girls Clubs.

Police Saturday sought help from the public in tracking down whoever vandalized a Glendale monument that commemorates Korean “comfort women” from World War II.

The Port of Los Angeles on Wednesday formally started the search for contractors interested in designing, installing, operating and maintaining its planned Cyber Resilience Center, which will serve as a clearinghouse for cyber threat information-sharing across companies and stakeholders at the country’s busiest trade gateway.

It’s that time of year again: it’s time for barbecuing, basking in the sun, and of course, fending off annoying bites from mosquitoes. What’s worse, in Southern California, is the presence of an aggressive ankle-biter mosquito that will bite multiple times, and doesn’t wait for dusk — they’ll attack right in the middle of the day, or even inside your...

Los Angeles County health officials have confirmed another case of measles in a local resident, the 15th of the year in the county, but said there is no known risk of the person exposing anyone else.

Ashleigh Dempster’s tiny homegrown business has become popular among the worlds most photographed celebs. Now it’s time for her to give back to her local community in Los Angeles.

The nation’s major suppliers of lead paint have agreed to pay California’s largest cities and counties $305 million to settle a nearly 20-year-old lawsuit, attorneys said Wednesday.

A slow-speed pursuit in the city of Industry traveled through La Puente and came to a stop in West Covina Sunday night.

A heat wave is hitting Southern California this weekend with areas like LA and the Inland Empire reaching the triple digits. The city of Glendale is offering residents cooling stations to help them stay cool in these high temperatures.

Parents and children will hold a lemonade stand fundraiser Saturday from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. in Pan Pacific Park to raise money to help immigrant families held in U.S. detention camps.

A young designer is making her mark in the world of fashion with unconventional materials and fabrics in the market. She uses the popular San Marcos blankets to create all kinds of garments, including jackets and coats.

A UCLA campus employee contracted measles and may have exposed others to the disease while eating at a campus food court, county health and university officials said Tuesday.

Bank of America announced Monday that it has donated more than $2.4 million to 84 Los Angeles-area nonprofit groups to benefit programs that put people on a path to “financial stability.” “So many of us are just one life event away from needing to depend on basic needs (and) services such as food banks or shelters, while others — especially…

Another installment of the CicLAvia open-streets festival will be held Sunday, opening streets in the Mid-City and Pico-Union areas to bicycles, skaters and pedestrians.

An indictment unsealed in Los Angeles charged nine people accused of participating in voting fraud schemes — in which homeless people were allegedly offered cash or cigarettes in exchange for forged signatures on initiative petitions and voter registration forms.

Sheriff’s investigators are seeking two more suspects and additional possible victims in a Windsor Hills human trafficking case.

Los Angeles City Councilman Mitch O’Farrell called on the state Wednesday to direct $1.2 billion toward the city’s battle against homelessness, matching the amount of a voter-approved municipal bond measure aimed at attacking the problem.

Days after Santa Anita concluded a racing meet marred by the deaths of 30 horses, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Wednesday giving the California Horse Racing Board authority to suspend racing at a track to protect horses or riders.

Los Angeles County health officials said Saturday that they are looking into identifying anyone who may have been exposed to two residents who recently traveled and became ill with measles shortly after returning to the county.

The Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted today to add Miracle Mile icon Tom Bergin’s to the city’s list of Historic-Cultural Monuments, despite objections from the shuttered tavern’s owner.

The Los Angeles County “Parks After Dark” program will return from now until August 3, 2019. “Parks after Dark” will begin offering this year’s “Our Spot” program, aimed at young people in seventh through twelfth grades in nine county parks.

Utility crews were determining what triggered an explosion in downtown Los Angeles Sunday afternoon that left three manhole covers displaced. Firefighters were dispatched to the 200 block of South Hill Street around noon and reported smoke emanating from below, said Margaret Stewart of the Los Angeles Fire Department. There were no reported power outages in the area and no injuries…

Homeboy Industries celebrated the launch of their salsa and guacamole products that are set to be sold at select Walmart stores in Southern California.

The Los Angeles City Council has doled out millions of dollars for various homeless services projects, including a temporary bridge housing facility in San Pedro and improved access to restrooms and showers for people living on Skid Row.

Eighty-five businesses in the downtown Los Angeles Skid Row area were cited by county health inspectors for violations of storage and trash-removal regulations during a recent sweep, the county Department of Public Health announced Wednesday.

The Swim LA initiative offers affordable swimming classes to low-income youth in Los Angeles this summer. It is offered in public pools of the city of LA and is aimed at children ages 4-17.

State officials have issued a so-called Flex Alert asking the public to conserve power during a punishing heatwave. The alert was issued the alert for 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday. Here are tips on conserving power.

Five youths ages 11 to 13 were issued citations by police for vandalizing several Santa Monica schools over the weekend, a lieutenant said Tuesday.

Children returning today to two Santa Monica schools that share a campus will find signs of an attack by vandals Monday, school officials said. There was damage done Saturday night in the library, cafeteria, stage, teacher’s lounge, book room and exterior areas.

The Los Angeles Police Department demonstrated its new program “National Youth Project Using Minibikes” Saturday at the off-road training course of the LAPD Davis Training Academy in Granada Hills, officials said.

A person infected with measles passed through Los Angeles International Airport twice in late May and public health officials are urging anyone who may have been exposed to check their immunization records and report any possible symptoms.

Local animal rights activists are adding a “funeral march” to one of their biggest annual demonstrations Sunday in west Los Angeles, held in conjunction with the 9th Annual National Animal Rights Day.

Actor Nico Tortorella became the first ambassador for LGBT+ Pride Month at a meeting with the Los Angeles City Council. Tortorella, who has written two books on gender identity, declared himself to be gender-fluid and bisexual in 2016.

The Los Angeles Unified School District has been awarded $578,500 in energy and water-efficiency program rebates from Southland utility companies, with the funds to be used toward purchase of new commercial kitchen equipment, it was reported Wednesday.

A massage business with two locations in the San Fernando Valley was sued Tuesday by the Los Angeles city attorney’s office for allegedly running prostitution services out of both sites.

A lawsuit was brought against Los Angeles Unified on behalf of a teen who alleges she was sexually molested by her teacher in 2016-17. The girl is now 14 years old. Rodriguez is awaiting trial on four counts of annoying or molesting a child, one count of false imprisonment and one count of intimidating a witness, according to the lawsuit.

A Riverside County man used his vehicle to advertise his need for a kidney transplant. Now, he received the kidney he desperately needed and is hoping his story will inspire others to donate.

A man suspected in a shooting assault earlier in the day who barricaded himself inside a residence in the Mar Vista area of Los Angeles was found dead Sunday inside the home from an apparent suicide, authorities said.

Admission to the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Los Angeles will soon be free, thanks to a $10 million gift from the president of the museum’s Board of Trustees.

A federal judge on Friday fined the Mongols motorcycle club $500,000 in a racketeering and conspiracy case but refused the latest effort in a decade-long attempt by the government to take away the club’s control over its logo — a Genghis Khan-style rider in sunglasses astride a chopper-style bike.

Mother’s Day in Los Angeles County will include Archbishop Jose Gomez blessing mothers at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels and the annual commemoration for inmates at the Century Regional Detention Facility.

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles (spcaLA) shelters are asking the community for help with providing food to cats and dogs in their shelters.

Los Angeles County has set another record in tourism, with visitors having $36.6 billion in economic impact in 2018, a 4.9% increase over the previous year, it was reported Tuesday.

A private funeral service will be held Monday for Oscar-nominated director John Singleton, best known for his debut film, the South Los Angeles drama “Boyz n the Hood.”

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to calculate the total cost of allegations against members of sheriff’s deputy cliques or gangs over the last three decades.

The watchdog panel that oversees the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department asked the county’s inspector general Tuesday to conduct an inquiry into secret deputy cliques that have proliferated for years and been implicated in violence against jail inmates and harassment of fellow deputies.

The Los Angeles Police Department Commander fired after she was detained by police in Glendale has gone back to LA Superior Court to try to overturn the LAPD’s decision.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to expand prohibitions on smoking on county property and in and around bars and restaurants in unincorporated areas, also making clear that smoking includes e-cigarettes and cannabis.

Two people were injured in an explosion caused by a gasoline leak in South Los Angeles Sunday morning, the Los Angeles Fire Department said.

This winter’s record rainfall has provided relief to drought-thirsty Southern California, but it has also created havens for disease-spreading mosquitoes in people’s yards, and health officials are urging people to take precautions against the insects.

Los Angeles Trade-Tech College will be holding a job fair for transgender people on Wednesday, March 13. Rizi Timane, director of the Transgender Health Program at St. Johns Family Center and organizer of the event, has invited more than 80 companies on the campus of LA Trade Tech College. “Timane said.” We created this to serve an incredibly diverse and…

The Los Angeles City Council Friday approved an ordinance to ban all restaurants from automatically giving customers plastic straws.

All of the carpets in City Hall and City Hall East may need to be ripped out due to a typhus outbreak in downtown Los Angeles, according to Council President Herb Wesson, who said a city employee possibly contracted the infectious disease while at work.

A man accused of using a sword to stab a La Mesa resident more than 30 times at his home in 2006 pleaded not guilty to the crime Tuesday, despite DNA evidence linking him to the scene.

Using cutting-edge, DNA matching technology that has been resurrecting cold cases across the country, police in La Mesa have made an arrest in a case involving a victim who was stabbed to death with a sword in his home nearly 13 years ago.

Kitten Kay Sera, a character actress, TV personality and singer, has transformed her all-white 750-square-foot apartment in West Hollywood into the “pink palace.” The self-proclaimed “monochromatic” has lived “in the pink” for nearly 40 years.

Tom Brady typically shrugs off any mention of records or milestones he sets. But even he had to chuckle at the one he and Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers will mark when they meet in Sunday’s divisional playoffs. Brady, who will be 41 years and 163 days old, and Rivers, at 37 years and 36 days old, will combine to be…

A storm headed for the Southland Friday is expected to drench parts of Los Angeles County before clearing out early Saturday afternoon.

Los Angeles Unified School District officials said they will make a new proposal to the teachers union Friday in an effort to avoid a planned strike Monday — an offer that includes additional funding to reduce class sizes and provide more support for teachers, which comes hours after California Gov. Gavin Newsom released a proposed budget for 2019-20 that would...

Sigi Schmid, longtime UCLA and former LA Galaxy coach, has died at age 65, the LA Galaxy confirmed to NBC4.

A Los Angeles judge Monday named a longtime probate attorney to be the guardian ad litem for 95-year-old Sumner Redstone in trial of the billionaire’s upcoming litigation against a former live-in companion, subject to the nominee’s acceptance of the job.

Hundreds lined up Thursday, forgoing obligations to go to work or school, to help in some way after a gunman opened fire in a Thousand Oaks bar, leaving a dozen dead. Lines for a blood donation at La Reina High School wrapped around the block through the afternoon.