Crime and Public Safety

State investigators began searching financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch where he once entertained guests amid allegations that the property may have been used for sexual abuse and sex trafficking of young women.

Jon Blaylock, who was already serving a life sentence for a 2023 in-prison murder of a peace officer, has since been moved to restricted housing.

Orange County sheriff's deputy Aimee Alexis Hidalgo allegedly shot her fiancée Brittany Shaw nine times, including a close-range head wound, in their Tustin apartment just moths before their planned wedding.

Ivanna Lisette Ortiz was charged with attempted murder and multiple firearms-related offenses after authorities said shots were fired outside Rihanna’s Los Angeles home.

Police are investigating a stabbing and break-in at Circa LA after a street takeover group swarmed the luxury high-rise following an alleged dispute with residents.

The verdict came after 11 women testified in Manhattan federal court they were sexually assaulted by one or more of the brothers: twins Oren and Alon Alexander, 38, and Tal Alexander, 39.

Monday marks Day 37 in the search for Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of NBC "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie, who went missing from her Tucson-area home on Feb. 1. Authorities believe Nancy was taken from her home against her will.

The suspect accused of firing shots into Rihanna's LA home over the weekend was identified by the LAPD as 35-year-old Ivanna Lisette Ortiz from Orlando, Florida. Her bail was set at $10,225,000.

Rachel Zoe’s LA home was burglarized over the weekend while she was in Las Vegas. One suspect was taken into custody, while two others are at large, officials said.

Two teens turned their obsession with slasher films into a deadly real-life nightmare.