Deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriffs’ Department’s Special Enforcement Bureau Tuesday arrested a man who barricaded himself inside a residence in an unincorporated area near South Los Angeles ...

Two men were fatally shot and five others were wounded near Athens Park in the unincorporated area west of Willowbrook and ...

A fast-moving California fire has forced authorities to evacuate part of a 5,000-person jail in Los Angeles County. The ...

The Hughes fire broke out a little before 11 a.m., roughly five miles north of the Pitchess Detention Center. The Sheriff's ...

The vast majority of those offenses were committed by the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department (LASD), which was responsible for 6,789 of the violations. The LASD committed thousands of abuses by ...

Thousands of inmates at a Castaic jail complex were kept sheltered in place despite being within the evacuation zone of the 10,000-plus acre Hughes Fire that erupted Wednesday. The Hughes Fire was ...

Dustin Lee Nehl and Jennifer Nehl have been charged with impersonating firefighters during the LA County wildfires, using ...

Smoke quickly filled the skies over Southern California on Wednesday as a new wildfire, dubbed the Hughes Fire, rapidly grew ...

In the 26 years she'd spent working for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Sandoval — a morning shift sergeant — had seen plenty of disasters threaten the communities she policed ...

The Hughes Fire near Castaic, north of Los Angeles, was 24% contained on Thursday afternoon, according to Cal Fire.