Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

Calling the current shared system of policing Los Angeles County’s transit system a failure, Sheriff Alex Villanueva said Wednesday he will pull all his deputies from transit patrol duties on July 1 unless his department is awarded a contract to provide all policing on buses, trains and stations.

Authorities say a deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has been arrested on suspicion of child sex abuse. The department said Friday that the 51-year-old deputy could face charges including lewd or lascivious acts and committing oral copulation with a child under the age of 14.

Man who was charged for killing a research scientist and allegedly attacking sheriff’s deputies is ordered to stand trial.

A mountain lion was hit by a vehicle and killed Wednesday in Malibu, authorities said. The animal died at the scene of the collision, which was reported at about 7:35 a.m. in the 33200 block of Pacific Coast Highway, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

At least five people were injured after a LA Sheriff’s Department helicopter crashed in the Angeles National Forest near Azusa. As seen on air on March 19, 2022.

Authorities Wednesday identified a man who was fatally shot by a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy in Palmdale Sunday after he allegedly crashed a vehicle into two patrol cars while fleeing the scene of an earlier domestic violence incident.

Authorities Wednesday identified 36-year-old Melissa Felt as the woman who was shot to death while driving an SUV that was stopped at a red light in Commerce, as detectives continued their efforts to solve the crime.

The man’s granddaughter want to know whether the suspect or sheriff’s deputies are responsible for the shooting that killed 67-year-old Pedro Lopez. Lauren Coronado reports for NBC4 on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022.

Authorities identified the 67-year-old innocent bystander fatally shot during a shootout between sheriff’s deputies and an attempted carjacking suspect in Norwalk.

The suspect was taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds. Authorities later learned the innocent bystander died of their wounds, and they are now investigating who fired the fatal shot. Video aired Feb. 18, 2022.

A shooting at a South Gate bar Saturday left two men dead and a third critically wounded.

A man shot by police in Huntington Park just after midnight on Tuesday was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the LASD.

According to a witness, the man was threatening his family with a knife before he made is way to Huntington Park, where police fatally shot him. Darsha Philips reports for Today in LA on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022.

The crash was caused by a speeding car, which hit two other vehicles. Video aired during Today in LA on Monday, Jan. 3, 2021.

A four-vehicle crash in an intersection in Norwalk on Sunday morning critically injured three people, killing one of them.

NBC4’s Conan Nolan talks with Britta Steinbrenner, a candidate for Los Angeles County Sheriff in 2022 and LASD captain who says it’s time to break up what she calls the “good old boy” network at the Hall of Justice.

2022 is an election year, and the race for Los Angeles County Sheriff is one to watch. NBC4’s Conan Nolan talks with Cecil Rhambo, a former sheriff’s official and current LAX Chief of Police, and candidate for Los Angeles County Sheriff.

A man and a woman were found dead in a Temple City home on Saturday morning, in what investigators believe may be a murder-suicide incident.

A man who holed up in a Lancaster home overnight surrendered early Saturday.

A man is in the hospital and Shoemaker Ave. is shut down after a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy shot that man in South Whittier.