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Tyler Barriss, 25, of Los Angeles, is accused of making a phone call that led police to shoot and kill a man in Wichita, Kan.

Fictitious shooting in video game sparked real-life shooting in Kansas swatting case, records show

August 22, 2019 at 7:33 a.m.

The fictitious death of a player in an online video game sparked the series of events that led a Los Angeles man to place a deadly prank call that ended...

Mario Romero looks at mud debris covering Maricopa Highway 33 North of Ojai that has several closures due to mud and debris slides covering the roadway Tuesday morning.

At least 15 dead as heavy rains trigger flooding, mudflows across Southern California

August 22, 2019 at 7:18 a.m.

At least 15 people were killed Tuesday when a rainstorm sent mud and debris coursing through Montecito, Calif., neighborhoods and left rescue crews to scramble through clogged roadways and downed...

Tyler Rai Barriss, seen at an extradition hearing in Los Angeles, is accused of making a "swatting" call that led to a man being fatally shot by police in Kansas.

Fatal ‘swatting’ suspect was linked to many hoax calls before Kansas tragedy

August 22, 2019 at 7:16 a.m.

In some corners of the online gaming world, Tyler Rai Barriss was a notorious figure. The 25-year-old Los Angeles man had built a reputation for helping others gain revenge on...

Cop’s SUV careens onto sidewalk, killing two boys in Los Angeles County

August 22, 2019 at 6:41 a.m.

Dropping to a knee, Luis Hernandez lit a small white candle and placed it beside a bed of flowers near the intersection where his little brothers’ lives ended the night...

El agente del Sheriff Marino González habla con miembros de la comunidad durante una reunión en Cudahy (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times).

Por temor a la deportación, muchas víctimas de violencia doméstica se alejan de la policía y los tribunales

May 15, 2019 at 4:05 p.m.

En los primeros seis meses de 2017, los informes de violencia doméstica disminuyeron entre los residentes latinos en algunas de las principales ciudades de California. Los profesionales sostienen que los...

Aug. 18, 2017: Scott Dekraai was spared from facing the death penalty due to the handling of jailhouse informants by the Orange County Sheriff's Department.

Man who killed 8 people at California nail salon gets life in prison

August 22, 2019 at 6:00 a.m.

A former tugboat captain who carried out Orange County's worst mass shooting was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison Friday for killing eight people at a...

Police watch demonstrators tackle a man Sunday at Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park in Berkeley.

‘Antifa’ violence in Berkeley spurs soul-searching within leftist activist community

August 22, 2019 at 5:41 a.m.

Of the dozens of organizations that turned out for Sunday's mass protest against racism here, one group was impossible to miss. Its members dressed head to toe in black, with...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://bancodeprofissionais.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Recordings suggest ‘Suge’ Knight discussed bribing witnesses in murder case, D.A. says

December 17, 2018 at 10:53 p.m.

Transcripts of recorded conversations suggest former rap impresario Marion "Suge" Knight and his defense attorney discussed bribing witnesses to fabricate testimony in Knight's upcoming murder trial, according to court records...

Bodyguard for well-known alt-right figure stabbed several times

August 22, 2019 at 4:50 a.m.

A man who works as a bodyguard for a nationally known figure popular among the alt-right was stabbed multiple times in Santa Monica on Saturday night following a dispute in...

A police SUV rests Thursday where it crashed near the intersection of 77th and San Pedro streets in Los Angeles.

LAPD says cadets stole police cars, led cops on chases that ended in crashes

August 22, 2019 at 4:46 a.m.

The Los Angeles Police Department has long hailed its cadet program as a successful partnership between police and the city's young residents. The initiative is designed to help cadets develop...

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