Over the years, the City Council has made several attempts to wrangle oversight of the LAPD from the Police Commission. As in the past, the commission has sought to underscore its independence from ...

In one case, 75 tons (150,000 pounds) of mortar-style fireworks were seized from a Gardena storage unit As Independence Day ...

LAPD officers responding to a medical-assistance call arrested a man accused of throwing chunks of concrete and a fire extinguisher at cruisers from a downtown high-rise.

Twenty-seven people were detained and six were arrested Saturday after a report of a gunman holding someone hostage prompted ...

A New York Knicks championship celebration ended in tragedy when Los Angeles police officers responding to a report of a woman screaming shot and killed her family's dog. The shooting happened around ...

Video captured the moments after Los Angeles police fatally shot a dog that was wearing a New York Knicks jersey as officers were responding to calls of a screaming woman — screaming that turned out ...

Chelsea Hylton is a web producer for CBS Los Angeles. An Inglewood native, Hylton has her master's degree from USC. She covers local breaking news across the Southern California region. Before joining ...

Jasmine Viel reports from Canoga Park, where an LAPD officer fatally shot a dog while responding to reports of a woman who was screaming in the area. Family members tell CBS LA that they were ...