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Los Angeles police say actor Peter Fonda discovered a dead body in a car and they are investigating the death.

A day after releasing images of men suspected of sexually assaulting severely disabled women, Los Angeles County sheriff's detectives said they have identified two of them.

A man wanted for questioning in the slaying of a Hollywood publicist killed himself in the lobby of a dreary Los Angeles hotel as police closed in with a search warrant -- the latest mysterious turn in a case that began on a posh stretch of Beverly Hills.

A Los Angeles police officer was convicted Thursday of leaving the scene of an accident and causing great bodily injury in a June 2008 hit-and-run in which his Hummer struck two pedestrians in a Saugus parking lot.

Police charged a man Wednesday in the city's "Grim Sleeper" serial killings Wednesday after decades of frustrated investigations into at least 11 slayings dating back 25 years, authorities said.

The Los Angeles Police Department is searching for a man who allegedly killed one co-worker and injured two others with a samurai-style sword.

Former boxing champ Mike Tyson was detained by police at Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday afternoon while they investigated a possible battery, authorities said.