LAPD found the 47-year-old fatally wounded near 4th and Crocker streets; no suspect information has been released.

Beutner says lead levels in his family's fire-surviving home hit nearly 1,000 times California's safe limit.

A tow truck operator leapt clear of a speeding Cadillac Escalade before all five vehicles were caught in the pileup near Cerritos.

Michael Douglas Graham, 67, was caught after a DNA hit from an unrelated Colorado arrest cracked the 1996 cold case.

Jose Francisco Jovel admitted throwing Molotov cocktails where people stood waiting for security screening downtown.

A Tokyo-bound Delta jet struck a towed Air Canada plane at LAX Tuesday morning, grounding both wide-bodies for inspection.

Four people and a vaccinated dog were potentially exposed, and the backyard raccoon tested positive, officials say.

A Studio City vault explosion hit six cars; a LAX-area blast lifted pavement. An engineer says aging gear and heat are likely culprits.

Waseem Saman, 45, told LAPD he bought merchandise from brokers; police say goods recovered at his store were allegedly looted from freight trains.

Fouad Mahassine suffered a brain bleed after a daylight attack on La Brea Avenue. His son said that immediately after the assault, he did not know where his father had been taken.

A bystander video shows two officers throwing 28-year-old Florentino Lopez to the ground outside his Santa Ana home. His sister recorded it all.

A firefighter was hospitalized after a structure fire broke out in a Hyde Park home, LAFD says.

A vehicle plowed into the Slauson Avenue diner Monday afternoon, killing one person and injuring two others.