Occupy Los Angeles | featured news

Police in Los Angeles and Philadelphia stormed Occupy Wall Street encampments in both cities, demanding protestors leave demonstration sites that had become two of the movement's largest after evictions upended others across the country.

Los Angeles and San Francisco are seeking long-term solutions to the entrenched encampments by anti-Wall Street protesters, hoping to end the drain on resources and the frayed nerves among police and politicians....

Serious crimes more than doubled in the area around Occupy Los Angeles during the first 45 days since the protesters began their encampment, Los Angeles Police Department officials said.