Javier Panzar

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…

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A 19-year-old man was charged Friday with slashing nine people in the face with a knife in a series of random attacks around South Los Angeles, Lynwood and South Gate, authorities said.

A lawyer for the family of a Riverside County man who has been hospitalized in a coma since being assaulted in the Dodger Stadium parking lot over the weekend said the incident was “eerily similar” to the vicious beating of Giants fan Bryan Stow at the same venue on opening day in 2011.

Los Angeles police detained a suspect in the hunt for a man wanted for slashing at least nine people in L.A. as he rode past them on his bicycle.

The family of the 45-year-old man who suffered a skull fracture after being punched at Dodger Stadium has hired civil rights and personal injury attorney Carl Douglas.

An on-duty Long Beach bus driver was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol when he hit several parked cars with a city bus early Monday morning, police said.

An Irvine police officer pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that he beat a man at his girlfriend’s Torrance home last summer, authorities said.

An 80-year-old Blythe man was charged this week with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft after federal prosecutors say he set up fake political action committees and pocketed more than $250,000 in contributions that donors thought was going to various political candidates and causes.

The Los Angeles Police Department is asking for help finding a robbery crew it says has been targeting Latino construction and landscaping workers in the San Fernando Valley since January.

Something was wrong with the two passengers sitting in the back seat of a Ford SUV zooming down the carpool lane on Interstate 80 in Richmond on Thursday morning.

Los Angeles police said Wednesday that the remains of a Los Angeles woman who was reported missing last November were found on a Native American reservation in New Mexico last week.

The Richmond-San Rafael Bridge over San Francisco Bay was shut down in both directions Thursday after football-sized chunks of concrete fell from the upper deck of the bridge onto the lower deck, authorities said.

A 41-year-old sex offender was sentenced to life in prison Monday after he was found guilty of kidnapping and attempting to sexually assault two women he trapped in his pickup truck in Pasadena in 2016, prosecutors said.