Libor Jany

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles has so far this year recorded double-digit percentage declines in homicides, non-fatal shootings and slayings stemming from gang feuds, according to police data released Tuesday.

The City of Los Angeles agreed to pay $30 million to thousands of people affected by gang injunctions. But court records show around half of the money remains unclaimed, and a federal judge ordered an audit of the city's management of the fund earlier this year.

LOS ANGELES — He had plans for reassembling his life after 10 years in prison. Big plans.

FBI agents searched the home of a Los Angeles deputy mayor as part of an investigation into a bomb threat made against City Hall, officials said Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES — FBI agents searched the home of a Los Angeles deputy mayor as part of an investigation into a bomb threat made against City Hall, officials said Wednesday.

Authorities have said Brian Williams, a top deputy to Mayor Karen Bass, is suspected of sending an anonymous threat about a bomb inside City Hall in October.

At Los Angeles International Airport last spring, a dispatcher received an anonymous call suggesting that a Spirit Airlines flight to Las Vegas was “going to blow up.”

LOS ANGELES — At Los Angeles International Airport last spring, a dispatcher received an anonymous call suggesting that a Spirit Airlines flight to Las Vegas was "going to blow up."

Django Sibley is the new executive director of the Los Angeles Police Commission, an all-civilian panel that oversees the LAPD and investigates when officers use deadly force.

LOS ANGELES — It wasn't long after becoming a police officer in the northern English town of Hull in the 1980s that Django Sibley realized patrolling without a gun meant "policing by consent."