Lancaster

Grade crossings at four streets along a Metrolink line in Palmdale and Lancaster will be enhanced for safety using up to $13.6 million in funds awarded to the rail system through the Federal Highway Administration Section 130 Program.

An emergency field hospital opened Saturday in Lancaster to help relieve the burden at Antelope Valley Hospital, which has been overrun with the surge in countywide coronavirus patients.

Relatives of a 10-year-old Lancaster boy who died after allegedly being subjected to extensive torture by his mother and her boyfriend lost a round in court today when a judge ruled they cannot seek punitive damages against a Pasadena agency that provided mental health services to the child. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michelle Williams Court granted a motion to...

Criminal proceedings were suspended Tuesday after doubt was declared about the mental competency of a man accused of killing an 82-year-old fellow patient who was praying when he was clubbed in the head with an oxygen tank at a Lancaster hospital, where both men were being treated for COVID-19.

Criminal proceedings were suspended Monday for a Lancaster man who allegedly decapitated two of his children and forced his two other children to view their slain siblings’ remains, as the court declared a doubt as to his mental competency.

The first victim, a 26-year-old man, had been shot in the upper body and was rushed to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The City of Lancaster recently passed an ordinance authorizing authorities to enforce the use of face coverings, making it a misdemeanor to refuse to comply with this rule.

Prosecutors said Wednesday that a man charged with decapitating two of his children allegedly forced his two younger children to view their slain siblings, whose remains were in the family’s Lancaster home for five days before he was arrested.

A man was charged Tuesday with murdering his 12-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter — who were decapitated — in Lancaster last week. Maurice Jewel Taylor Sr., a 34-year-old personal trainer, was ordered to be held in lieu of $4.2 million bail while awaiting arraignment Dec. 21 in a Lancaster courtroom on two felony counts each of murder and child abuse…

Sheriff’s detectives were investigating after a 911 call of a gas leak. Kim Baldonado reports for the NBC4 News on Friday, Dec. 4, 2020.

Two people believed to be in their teens were found dead Friday at a Lancaster home, and authorities said they appeared to have “lacerations and stab wounds.” The deaths were reported about 8 a.m. in the 45000 block of Century Circle, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Paramedics went to the location on a report of a possible…

A major hit-and-run crash involving two vehicles in Lancaster left one person dead, four people critically injured and one person with unknown injuries Thursday night, according to authorities.

A major hit-and-run crash involving two vehicles in Lancaster left one person dead, four people critically injured and one person with unknown injuries. NBC4 News reports at 11 p.m. on Nov. 26, 2020.

After spending 16 years in prison for a crime they say they didn’t commit, two men are set free. Kathy Vara reports for the NBC4 News on Friday, Nov. 13, 2020.

Two men who spent 16 years in state prison for a 2004 shooting in Lancaster for which their attorney says they were falsely accused were sentenced Friday to time already served behind bars. Dupree Antoine Glass and Juan Marshall Rayford — who were serving 11 consecutive life prison sentences — were freed from state prison just prior to Halloween after…

NBC4’s Michelle Valles made a new friend when she visited Lancaster Tuesday Nov. 10, 2020.

A child was hurt in a shooting in Lancaster Monday morning, sheriff’s officials said.

Thirteen people who are accused of committing crimes while participating in a civil disturbance in Lancaster on Sunday night sat behind bars Tuesday, with bail for seven of them set at $1 million.

Police in Pennsylvania have deployed tear gas on a crowd of people protesting early Monday after an officer shot and killed a man while responding to a domestic disturbance call.