Following a happenstance case break, detectives in Southern California found the person responsible for an unsolved 1986 homicide of a 19-year-old woman – a serial killer already on death row, Los Angeles county sheriff's officials said.
The shallow quake was only 12 kilometres deep and directly under the populated areas of Los Angeles, so was likely felt widely despite the relatively modest intensity.
“The lies that Defendants told about Harvey to over 50 million people worldwide include that Harvey is a twice-convicted stalker who was sentenced to five years in prison, and that Harvey sexually assaulted Gadd."
Duelling groups of protesters clashed on Wednesday at the University of California, Los Angeles, grappling in fistfights and shoving, kicking and using sticks to beat one another.
More than a dozen people suffered mostly minor injuries when a tram used for tours crashed into a railing at Universal Studios Hollywood near Los Angeles, authorities and the company said.
A woman who authorities say fatally stabbed her partner at their Los Angeles apartment Monday then threw her two children from a moving SUV onto the freeway, killing her infant daughter, was an astrologer who called the impending solar eclipse
The FBI and Los Angeles Police Department are investigating one of the largest cash heists in the city's history after as much as $30 million was stolen from a San Fernando Valley money storage facility.
Prosecutors are telling a Nevada judge that witnesses may be at risk in the case of a former Los Angeles-area gang leader charged with orchestrating the killing of hip-hop music icon Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas more than 27 years ago.
A pit bull puppy that California police believe got into its owners' fentanyl stash was administered an overdose-reversing drug and is recovering, officials said.
A tiny neighborhood store in downtown Los Angeles sold the winning ticket for the Powerball jackpot worth an estimated $1.59 billion, the sixth largest in US history and the third largest in the history of the game.
One person was killed when a single-engine plane slammed into a grassy hillside above homes in a Los Angeles neighborhood amid dense fog, authorities said.
A Delta Air Lines passenger was arrested after opening one of the plane's doors and sliding down an emergency exit slide as the plane prepared for takeoff from Los Angeles to Seattle.
Vanessa Bryant has reached a nearly $43 million agreement with Los Angeles County to settle a lawsuit over photos that were taken at the helicopter crash that killed her husband.
A rare blizzard warning remains in effect for parts of Southern California — including the Los Angeles region — Saturday as some areas endure heavy snow and record rainfall that has delivered dangerous flooding.
Actress Cate Blanchett has secured her eighth Oscar nomination, after securing a Best Actress nomination for her role in Tár, headlining Australian hopes for the 95th Academy Awards in March.
Mymy Nhan was a regular at the Star Ballroom for more than a decade, choosing the Los Angeles-area dance hall popular with older Asian Americans as the place to "start the year fresh" with Lunar New Year celebrations, her niece said.
It's no secret that cost of living pressures have stung Aussies at the hip pocket this year, but overseas, many nations have also found themselves in a similar crisis.
Six New South Wales men have been charged over their alleged links to a multinational drug network, responsible for the importation of over 300kg of methamphetamine into the state.