A Jefferson Boulevard confrontation sent officers scrambling Thursday — but the handgun fired only blanks.

The killing near Centinela and Washington came just 12 days after a separate shooting at the same intersection.

A Montrose volunteer's tourniquet bought minutes as a Sierra Madre hiker's SOS led rescuers straight to a bleeding motorcyclist.

Giovanni Diaz, 27, faces a $500,000 bail after a December blast on West 84th Street killed a 17-year-old.

Culver CityBus is suspending all service through the weekend as LAPD hunts a gunman who fled on a bicycle.

Eric Weinberg, 66, went on trial in Los Angeles this week, with prosecutors saying he posed as a photographer to lure women to his Los Feliz home.

A Gardena woman found a hole punched through her storage unit's back wall after burglars cleaned out her collectibles and jewelry.

Four vehicles collided at Florence and Seville avenues after a minibike chase late Wednesday. The rider got away; an officer's condition remains unknown.

A false report that a 3-year-old child was thrown to the ground brought deputies to the rapper's Santa Clarita home Wednesday.

Ashley Guereque said she was suspended and fired a day after flagging a vice principal's alleged treatment of kindergartners at St. Gregory the Great School.

A man was killed near 69th and Central around 8:47 p.m. Tuesday. No vehicle or suspect description has emerged.

Federal agents swarmed a Buena Park street to grab a man accused of using phony Social Security numbers to rack up debt.

A man riding an e-bike was ejected and killed in Highland Park late Wednesday. The grey sedan's driver remained at the scene as police investigate.