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Body camera video shows a Los Angeles police officer briefly pressing a knee to the neck of New Orleans Pelicans center Jaxson Hayes as he struggled with them last month

Footage released by the LAPD shows an officer rescuing a man from a burning car before the vehicle burst into flames.

A former business manager of the late comic book legend Stan Lee had his initial court appearance early Sunday in Arizona, where he was arrested after fleeing California charges of fiduciary elder abuse.

There’s a stretch of sidewalk tucked under the 405 Freeway in the shadow of the West Los Angeles skyline that about 40 people call home. At least once per week, police order them out of the area and block of the area so city sanitation workers can get to work. It’s the start of a seemingly endless cycle that consumes...

A former Los Angeles police officer who pleaded guilty to molesting a fellow cop’s 13-year-old daughter was sentenced Friday to five years in state prison and ordered to register as a sex offender for life.

U.S. immigration authorities have arrested a Canadian man who has twice been convicted of trespassing at the California home of model and Kardashian family member Kendall Jenner. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Friday that John Ford, 38, was arrested earlier this week in the parking lot of an Albuquerque motel after agents received a tip that he was in...

U.S. immigration authorities have arrested a Canadian man who has twice been convicted of trespassing at the California home of model and Kardashian family member Kendall Jenner. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Friday that John Ford, 38, was arrested earlier this week in the parking lot of an Albuquerque motel after agents received a tip that he was in...

Actor Kristoff St. John, who starred in the long-running soap opera “The Young and the Restless,” died from heart disease, the coroner’s office announced.

Investigators today were working to identify a person who attacked and dragged a woman in downtown Los Angeles in an attempt to rob her.

“The Young and the Restless” actor Kristoff St. John has died at age 52. He was found dead Sunday at his San Fernando Valley home north of Los Angeles.

A Hollywood Hills home owned by singer Rihanna was broken into Tuesday night, police said.
Los Angeles police officers were called to investigate a residential burglary at the home in the 7800 block of Hillside Avenue.

A Texas man was arrested on suspicion of killing three people and seriously injuring four in a 2½-week-long string of attacks targeting sleeping homeless men in Southern California, Los Angeles police said Tuesday, while authorities in Houston investigated him for the disappearance of his aunt and uncle.

Three years to the day of the victim’s death, a 25-year-old man was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing a UCLA student whose body was found after a fire at her Westwood apartment.

“Mission: Impossible” star Ving Rhames says Los Angeles police once held him at gunpoint inside his own home after police said a neighbor called 911 to report that a “large black man was breaking into the house.” The 59-year-old African-American actor, who is promoting the new sequel Mission: Impossible – Fallout, made his comments on The Clay Cane Show on...

The bullet that killed a Trader Joe’s store manager in an exchange of gunfire with a homicide suspect following a pursuit crash Saturday was fired by a Los Angeles Police Department officer, police said Tuesday morning.

Los Angeles police are investigating reports of elder abuse against Marvel Comics’ Stan Lee. The investigation was revealed in a restraining order granted Wednesday against a man who has been acting as Lee’s business manager and personal adviser.

Actor Corey Feldman was hospitalized after what the “Stand by Me” and “Goonies” star described as an attack by three men at a San Fernando Valley intersection.

The U.S. Secret Service said it has interviewed a man claiming responsibility for delivering a gift-wrapped package of horse manure addressed to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.

Los Angeles police are investigating almost two dozen cases of alleged criminal sexual misconduct connected to multiple people within the entertainment industry, a senior department official told NBC News. The cases involve individuals who are known publicly as well as others who have not yet been identified, the official said Friday. Allegations span from misdemeanor sexual battery to felony rape,...