Crime and Public Safety

A 54-year-old Rancho Cucamonga man accused of lighting his mother on fire Monday morning is behind bars after an hours-long standoff that had neighbors evacuated from their homes.

Los Angeles police are investigating what they believe to be a murder-suicide at a North Hollywood home Monday evening.

SWAT responded to a home in the 1000 block of 48th Street in South Los Angeles after a report of a man throwing objects at neighbors and being possibly armed with a gun.

Dozens of LAPD officers responded to the 13100 block of Ottoman Street in the Arleta area Monday afternoon after gunshots were reported and an officer requesting help.

A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy who was fired over domestic violence allegations but rehired after Alex Villanueva was elected sheriff was ordered by a judge on Monday to surrender his badge and gun and stop identifying himself as a law enforcement officer.

The Orange County District Attorney's office will conduct an investigation to determine whether two police officers lawfully killed a suspect following a traffic stop on Wednesday afternoon in Fullerton.

A retired Cal State Fullerton administrator was fatally stabbed in a campus parking lot on Monday in what police described as a targeted attack.

It will soon be that time of year again when we share the roads with school buses every morning and afternoon.

A suspect died Monday after an exchange of gunfire with police officers in the El Sereno area of Los Angeles.  

Laguna Beach detectives are searching a home in Laguna Terrace after they found a woman decapitated inside. 

Three people were wounded in two, unrelated shootings Sunday morning in Long Beach, police said.

Homicide detectives are investigating the death of a man whose burned body was found in a dry lake bed in Joshua Tree on Friday morning.

A San Bernardino school official has been arrested on suspicion of possession of child pornography. 42-year-old Perry Wiseman, the assistant superintendent of San Bernardino City School, was picked up Friday night on both possessing and distributing child pornography.

The teenage boy who led police on a pursuit through the North Hollywood area in a utility truck reported stolen and crashed into a North Hollywood apartment building had been reported missing earlier inSouth Los Angeles, authorities said.