Christine Pelisek

A robbery suspect was killed on July 6 in an altercation with Los Angeles Police Department officers in West Los Angeles. According to reports, the officers encountered two robbery suspects at the corner of Iowa and Purdue avenues around 11:15 p.m.. Pedro Fernandez, 24, was hit. The other man fled......

Los Angeles Police Department detectives are looking into the murder of 29-year-old Robert Valencia Alcazar on July 6 in Boyle Heights. View Larger Map According to police, Alcazar and two friends were hanging out at a local bar and returned to a house in the 700 block of North Soto......

A homeless man was stabbed to death on Canada's birthday, July 1, as he was waiting in line for food at a food distribution center on the corner of Carlos Avenue and Vista Del Mar Street in Hollywood. View Larger Map Craig Wright, 50, apparently got into a verbal altercation......

Alleged cop killer Stephanie Lazarus less than an hour ago entered a plea of not guilty in the fatal attack on her ex-boyfriend's girlfriend, in a bizarre twist in which the longtime detective was on the wrong side of the fence, sitting quietly in the fortified holding cell on the......

A homeless man was stabbed to death on Canada's birthday, July 1, as he was waiting in line for food on the corner of Carlos Avenue and Vista Del Mar Street in Hollywood.  View Larger Map The victim, a male African American in his 40s, apparently got into a verbal......

An 18-year-old male was gunned down while walking to meet a friend at a bus stop located on 54th Street and Western Avenue, on June 25.  View Larger Map According to police reports, two male suspects were sitting in a small mid-size vehicle when they shot Jessie Jackson as he......

A group of white firefighters dubbed the New Haven 20 were the victims of illegal racial discrimination, according to a Supreme Court ruling today. The white firefighters lost promotions in New Haven, Connecticut after New Haven officials set aside results of a 2003 test after the officials learned no black......

A Hispanic teen was stabbed to death at her residence in the 7000 block of Whitsett Avenue near Sherman Way in North Hollywood on June 26. View Larger Map Crystal Zaldivar, 17, was found dead inside her apartment 3 p.m., Friday, by maintenance personnel. According to police reports, Zaldivar, who......