Javier Panzar

A 50-year-old Inglewood man has been charged with fatally stabbing a 58-year-old woman he briefly dated with a pair of scissors, killing her dog and setting fire to her Pomona apartment, authorities said Monday.

Thanks to Southern California’s wet winter, the Santa Monica Mountains are alive with luminous purple phacelia and bright blue lupine flowers.

An inmate convicted on domestic violence charges escaped from a firefighting camp in Little Tujunga Canyon north of Sylmar and was caught several hours later by authorities in East Hollywood, authorities said.

Alain LeRoyLocke College Preparatory Academy in South Los Angeles’ Green Meadows neighborhood was put on lockdown Friday morning after the school received a bomb threat, but police officers did not find any devices, authorities said.

Seven Chinese nationals were defrauded of $1.5 million by two San Gabriel Valley residents who said they could obtain visas in exchange for investments in restaurants owned by one of the locals, prosecutors said Monday.

The Los Angeles Police Department released a video Wednesday of a violent hit-and-run collision in the Westlake neighborhood that left a bicyclist with a broken leg and announced a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to the arrest of the driver of the SUV.

A 30-year-old Sylmar man who was caught on video punching two women in the face at a downtown Los Angeles hot dog stand has pleaded guilty to two counts of battery.

A 64-year-old Corona del Mar woman was killed Wednesday morning after a Mercedes speeding the wrong way on the 73 Freeway at more than 100 mph crashed head-on into her BMW in Newport Beach, authorities said.

A fall heat wave peaking Wednesday and Thursday is expected to push temperatures in Southern California up to 15 degrees above normal for this time of year and potentially break heat records in Northern California. By Thursday, Southern California valleys are forecast to see highs in the 90s, with downtown Los Angeles in the low 90s, the beaches in the 80s and low deserts above 100. A heat advisory is in effect in the San Francisco Bay Area through Thursday night. Temperatures could hit 100 in s…

Crossing up and over the fabled Donner Pass in the northern Sierra Nevada and descending to Lake Tahoe is one of those essential rites of passage for Californians. But forget doing it in a car. Now is the time to hop on board Amtrak’s long-distance California Zephyr and see the amazing snowpack from the comfort of the train’s observation car. A series of storms in the last few weeks have left California’s mountains with a lovely cloak of fresh powder. The Zephyr goes all the way to Chicago over…