Fast-moving wildfires have forced hundreds of people to leave their homes in mountains north of Los Angeles, California, the authorities say. The fires had covered an area of 20,000 acres by Saturday evening, sending a pall of smoke across parts of Los Angeles County. About 300 people have been evacuated near the city of...
Two people were killed Friday after a small plane they were in crashed into a town house in the Los Angeles suburb of Hawthorne, authorities said. A Los Angeles County fire dispatcher said nobody on the ground was hurt. The plane appeared to have smashed into the front of an attached, two-story town house in a complex and...
A gang feud is allegedly behind the brutal murder of two teenage girls whose bodies were found in October in a popular Los Angeles park, Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck said Thursday. "This is a case that is gang motivated," Beck said at a late afternoon press conference. "This was motivated by hatred...
A Saudi prince has been arrested on charges of trying to force a worker at a Beverly Hills estate to perform oral sex, Los Angeles police have said. Majed Abdulaziz Al Saud , 28, was arrested on Wednesday and was released on a $300,000 (£197,000) bond the next day. The Los Angeles police department said the prince did not...