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

A 22-year-old inmate died in a cluster of suspected overdoses on a jail bus early Friday, prompting Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials to halt court transports from the downtown ...

Nine of the jails were in California, but they all had average daily populations between 100 and 3,000, meaning the Los Angeles jails — which average around 12,800 inmates per day — were not ...

California Department of Corrections officials in Acton are alerting neighboring communities of an inmate who escaped on ...

(Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department) Although they were located within that evacuation zone, a lack of operational buses made evacuating the 4,700 inmates at the jail complex difficult ...

The estate and brother of a 32-year-old woman who allegedly died at the hands of another inmate at the Los Angeles County ...

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

LA County Sheriff Robert Luna said during ... Human remains were found in a Malibu home last night by the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, NBC News LA reports, marking the first confirmed death ...

The fire came with the greater Los Angeles area still suffering after two enormous fires that killed more than two dozen people and destroyed thousands of structures. Robert Jensen, of the Los Angeles ...

A "dangerous" inmate who is on the run Wednesday after fleeing a North Carolina jail ... warned. Los Angeles Wildfires Rekindle ‘Eco-terror’ Arson Suspect Manhunt After Fake Firefighters Arrested In ...