Close MCJ!” beneath a billboard at Alameda and Main streets in northeast LA that called for closing the jail. Asante said county supervisors agree with the groups that more health care ...

AB 469 seeks to close loopholes and strengthen sentences for looting and fake first responders in disaster zones.

LOS ANGELES — A 42-year-old Los Angeles felon was charged Monday with throwing an object at a vehicle on the Hollywood (101) ...

Dustin Lee Nehl and Jennifer Nehl have been charged with impersonating firefighters during the LA County wildfires, using fake gear and a purchased fire truck to access the Palisades Fire zone.

The Hughes fire broke out a little before 11 a.m., roughly five miles north of the Pitchess Detention Center. The Sheriff's Department has struggled with a shortage of buses to transport inmates.

A fast-moving California fire has forced authorities to evacuate part of a 5,000-person jail in Los Angeles County. The Hughes Fire, which broke out Wednesday afternoon in Castaic, is 0 percent ...

Los Angeles County Supervisors voted Tuesday to cancel plans to build a controversial mental health jail downtown and also abandoned plans to move a women’s jail from South LA to a larger site in the ...

The specific changes being called for are detailed in the statement issued Tuesday by the LA County DA's office. "There is a special place in jail for those who exploit the vulnerable in the wake ...

In a Durango City Council meeting on Tuesday, councilors voted to withdraw their baseless lawsuits against the county commissioners and sheriff related to their desire to use the La Plata County Jail ...

A La Crosse man faces felony charges for sixth-offense drunken driving after police stopped him and detected intoxicants. He ...