The Los Angeles Police Department supervisor who fatally shot an unarmed man near the border between Los Angeles and Culver City mistook a bicycle part in his hand for a gun, police reported Friday. Police received a call around 12:40 p.m. Saturday about a “man with a gun” and a Pacific Division patrol field supervisor in the area, Sgt. Colin…

Prosecutors have filed extortion, domestic violence, and several other charges against a former LAPD officer — who was accused of sexually assaulting and attempting to extort his one-time girlfriend, herself an LAPD detective and the wife of former LAPD assistant chief Jorge Villegas. Danny Reedy, who has not been arrested, was named in a criminal complaint filed for warrant Monday…

An LAPD officer suspected of fondling a dead woman’s body was charged by prosecutors and arrested Thursday, authorities said. David Rene Rojas was booked by LAPD internal affairs detectives on a warrant that accused him of having sexual contact with human remains, according to the LA County District Attorney’s Office. Rojas, 27, was arrested without incident at his home...

What could be more comforting than stuffing your dead pet in a pillow?

Former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean says she lost her crown because of a comment she made about gay marriage and not because she had been skipping appearances. Prejean told Matt Lauer on NBC‘s “Today” show Friday that she “absolutely” had been dethroned because of the comment, when she said marriage should be between a man and a woman....

Dozens of Los Angeles Police Department officers and detectives mobilized across Los Angeles and Riverside counties early Friday to carry out raids that resulted in the arrests of three suspects in last weekend’s fatal shooting of an off-duty LAPD officer, law enforcement sources told NBCLA.

Police say a suspect is still at large and two people are injured after a shooting on Lincoln Road early Saturday morning.

A U.S. Army veteran was plotting a large-scale terror attack in Los Angeles as revenge for the mass shooting at a mosque in New Zealand, according to an indictment unsealed Monday.

Lora King, the daughter of the late Rodney King, whose beating by LAPD officers triggered the 1992 riots, will launch the “I am a King” scholarship to celebrate black fathers Monday on the 27th anniversary of the start of the 6-day-long explosion of urban violence.

A rare English bulldog puppy is on its way home thanks to cooperation between police officers in Illinois and the Los Angeles Police Department.

A man accused of posing as an interested home buyer at open houses, then returning to steal items in a series of burglaries at celebrity and high-end homes for sale in Los Angeles, has been arrested, police said Wednesday.

Two women were detained Tuesday when one of them allegedly threw a powdery substance in the direction of LAPD Chief Charlie Beck during yet another raucous meeting of the Los Angeles Police Commission.

A 16-year-old girl alleges that a Los Angeles police officer, who supervised her in the police cadet program, sexually abused her and gave her a pill to induce abortion when he thought she was pregnant.

Police say R&B singer Trey Songz has been arrested on suspicion of felony domestic violence for punching a woman at a Los Angeles party.

A Los Angeles Department bomb squad responded to a Bel-Air neighborhood Saturday night due to a suspicious package.

The LAPD has launched an investigation of Harvey Weinstein involving a possible sexual assault in 2013. Over 40 women have accused Weinstein of sexual harassment or assault.

Two people, including NBA player Zach Randolph, were arrested following a massive police response after an “officer needs help” call Wednesday night at the Nickerson Gardens housing apartment complex in the Watts section of Los Angeles. Randolph, of the Sacramento Kings, was arrested on suspicion of possession of marijuana with intent to sell, according to the Los Angeles Police Department....

LAPD Chief Charlie Beck personally arrested Officer Robert Cain for unlawful sex with a 15-year-old girl, who was one of the cadets arrested for allegedly stealing police cars and other equipment. Kim Baldonado reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 22, 2017.

Four more cadets were arrested in an ongoing scandal involving the LAPD cadet program. Patrick Healy reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, June 20, 2017.