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December 1, 2021

Jacqueline Avant, wife of Rock Hall of Fame music exec, slain in Beverly Hills home

Jacqueline Avant, the wife of Grammy Award-winning music executive Clarence Avant, was fatally shot early Wednesday in her Los Angeles-area home. Bill Clinton, Magic Johnson among those expressing condolences after apparent robbery.

December 1, 2021

Los Angeles suspects mug mother with baby outside home in brazen daytime robbery caught on camera

Police in Los Angeles were looking for two suspects who allegedly victimized a mother and her baby last weekend in a brazen daytime crime that was caught on a security camera. 

November 30, 2021

Woman allegedly runs on LAX tarmac in attempt to wave down plane

A woman has been taken into custody at Los Angeles International Airport after she reportedly ran down onto the tarmac in hopes of getting the attention of a Southwest Airlines plane.

November 29, 2021

Heidi Planck disappearance: Los Angeles cops search landfill for human remains, evidence of missing woman

Authorities in Los Angeles County began searching a landfill Monday for evidence related to the disappearance of a woman who vanished in October. They are searching Chiquita Canyon Landfill for the human remains of Heidi Planck.

November 28, 2021

Beverly Hills SWAT standoff with suspicious van blocking traffic ends after several hours

A police standoff in Beverly Hills, California, ended shortly before midnight Saturday with SWAT officers removing an unresponsive man from a van that had been blocking a busy intersection for several hours, according to reports.

November 27, 2021

Los Angeles-area looters target Home Depot, Bottega Veneta stores on Black Friday: reports

Officials in California sent word earlier this week that they planned to crack down on "smash and grab" robberies and flash-mob-style looting after numerous recent incidents up and down the state. But apparently not everybody got the message.

November 25, 2021

Seth Rogen goes viral after shrugging off Los Angeles car burglaries: 'It’s called living in a big city'

Comedic actor Seth Rogen trended on Twitter after he shrugged off Los Angeles criminals breaking into cars, suggesting it's simply part of normal life in a big city.

November 25, 2021

LA firefighter accused of wiping butt with vaccine mandate letter that was handed to him

The unidentified LAFD employee, who was served with a noncompliance letter from the fire department, pulled down his pants and wiped his buttocks with it before leaving it on the ground.

November 24, 2021

Rampant smash-and-grab theft part of failure to prosecute criminals, tolerated by officials, experts say

A rash of brazen nighttime organized retail thefts in several U.S. cities in which thieves have been seen ransacking stores and making off with handfuls of merchandise is the culmination of a failure to prosecute criminals and the normalization of such behavior, according to experts.

November 24, 2021

LAPD launches 'Follow Home Task Force' after string of robberies

The LAPD on Tuesday evening announced a new “Follow Home Task Force” following “an ongoing crime trend of follow-home robberies.”