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LOS ANGELES — Disaster can strike everywhere — even in some of America’s richest and most exclusive neighborhoods. Six wildfires have destroyed homes and caused the closure of one of America’s busiest freeways around Los Angeles while forcing nearly 200,000 ...

  LOS ANGELES — The chief of police in America’s second largest city has vowed not to cooperate with President Trump’s immigration policies. “That is not our job, nor will I make it our job,” Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie ...

Students in Los Angeles are so afraid of Donald Trump that the school district has set up a hotline and support centers to deal with their anxieties. “Although it has been nearly a month since the presidential election, many of ...

All handguns in Los Angeles homes will have to be locked up or disabled with a trigger lock under a new ordinance unanimously approved by the city council this week. A similar proposal already is law in San Francisco, and ...

Parents whose children are taken by social workers can fight back against the government and win. Los Angeles County agreed to pay a couple whose children were seized without a warrant $800,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit. Among the ...

The Los Angeles riots happened decades ago now, but the people and the city still bear the scars of “civil” unrest. The riots became legendary and happened in a decade where news coverage was going through a growth spurt. Across ...

All handguns in Los Angeles would have to be kept under lock and key — at all times when not being carried — if a group of city councilmen get their way. Under the proposal, handguns would have to be ...

It is not just federal agencies that may be violating your constitutional rights. Some local police and sheriff’s departments have surveillance operations as sophisticated as those at the NSA. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is deploying an array of ...

The biggest seizure of private property by eminent domain in decades in the United States has started in California. The state is planning to take hundreds of properties — most of them in rural areas and small towns — to ...