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TARZANA >> Los Angeles police responded to Chris Brown’s residence in Tarzana Tuesday and later served a search warrant on the home as the singer took to social media to deny any wrongdoing and to condemn police. At a news conference Tuesday afteoon, LAPD Lt. Chris Ramirez said police were serving a search warrant on the home, and an unknown number of people were exiting the residence. The house is located in a posh, hillside neighborhood of one-and two-story homes that are nearly all protected by locked iron gates. A call initially came at 3:11 a.m. from the 5000 block of Corbin Avenue, police said earlier. “It came out as a female requesting help,” Officer Drake Madison of LAPD’s Me...

Late Sunday night, Twitter was abuzz with reports of an active shooter at Los Angeles Inteational Airport and evacuations at several terminals. Police later reported that there was no shooter, but those who were evacuated were required to pass through TSA security again, flights were delayed and traffic backed up around LAX. Reports of an active shooter at LAX briefly shifted the Twitterverse’s focus away from the VMA’s Sunday night. • Related Story: Unfounded fears of shooting at LAX create panic, chaos, gridlock Just before 9 p.m. hundreds reported being evacuated from LAX’s terminals for what they said was an active shooter situation. Within an hour, police officials reported there was n...

Investigators are exploring a gang coection to a house party in Granadau2009Hills, where rapper Kid Cali was shot and killed, the Losu2009Angeles Police Department said Monday. “There is definitely some sort of gang coection to this case, but I don’t know if Kid Cali was involved, whether it was the party or the participants,” LAPD’s Operations-Valley Bureau Homicide Detective Richard Moakley said. • PHOTOS: Rapper Kid Cali — candids and crime scene pictures Investigators have seized what may be a key piece of evidence. “We have a grainy video and may be able to ... get a picture of the shooter,” Moakley said, noting that if they are able to pull a photo from the video, it will be released ...

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Protective League today demanded that Stan Kroenke, the billionaire owner of the Rams, pay the full cost for necessary police services to ensure public safety at the team’s home games as long as it plays at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. “The estimated cost to provide police protection at Ram games is approximately $2 million a year,” LAPPL spokesman Dustin DeRollo said. “Thus far the Rams have not agreed to pay their fair share of policing costs and this will drain police coverage in other areas of our city,” DeRollo said. “The LAPPL is also urging Mayor Eric Garcetti to reject any requests for sweetheart deals funded by the taxpayers for the NFL team.” ...

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Protective League today demanded today that Stan Kroenke, the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Rams, pay the full cost for necessary police services to ensure public safety at L.A. Rams home games as long as the team plays in Los Angeles. “The estimated cost to provide police protection at Ram games is approximately $2 million a year,” LAPPL spokesman Dustin DeRollo said in a statement. “Thus far the Rams have not agreed to pay their fair share of policing costs, and this will drain police coverage in other areas of our city,” DeRollo said. “The LAPPL is also urging Mayor Eric Garcetti to reject any requests for sweetheart deals funded by the taxpayer...

LOS ANGELES — An investigation continued today into an exchange of gunfire in Watts that left an 18-year-old suspect dead and police officer wounded at the Nickerson Gardens public housing project. The shooting was reported about 11 p.m. Monday at 112th and Antwerp streets, according to Los Angeles Police Department Officer Norma Eisenman. Richard Risher, of the San Beardino County community of Apple Valley, died at the scene, said coroner’s Assistant Chief Ed Winter. Police described the confrontation as a ruing gun battle, but Risher’s mother said her son was unarmed and ruing away from officer when he was shot. “He didn’t have nothing,” Lisa Simpson told Fox11. “He was ruing and he put h...

Lawyers for the city of Los Angeles won a round in court Friday when a judge ruled that a former Harbor Division training officer for LAPD Officer Christopher Doer is not entitled to view all of the investigative reports and persoel records involving the late rogue officer. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Ste said the motion for the release of documents filed by attoeys for Sgt. Teresa Evans was supported by arguments that contained too much “hearsay, speculation, supposition and assumption.” The judge cited a swo declaration offered by one of Evans’ attoeys, Leila K. Al Faiz, which he said had more lines stating “upon information and belief’’ than he had ever seen in such a docume...

LAPD Detective Brent Hopkins was finishing up some reports late Thursday night, writing up why some of the suspects taken into custody should be exonerated and kept out of jail, when he could hear sniper fire and panicked voices. Inside the West LA Area police station where he works, he saw the images flash across a television screen. Officers were down in Dallas. Someone was purposely shooting at them. Just then, a call came into the station. A robbery. A bad person doing something to a good person, Hopkins thought. “When that robbery call went out, everyone still went out to that,” Hopkins, 37, said. “Even with this very heated atmosphere, I still see all of my coworkers showing up for wo...

WASHINGTON >> The Islamic State group’s Twitter traffic has plunged 45 percent in the past two years, the Obama administration says, as the U.S. and its allies have countered messages of jihadi glorification with a flood of online images and statements about suffering and enslavement at the hands of the extremist organization. Among the images: A teddy bear with Arabic writing and messages saying IS “slaughters childhood,” ‘’kills iocence,” ‘’lashes purity” or “humiliates children.” A male hand covering a female’s mouth, saying IS “deprives woman her voice.” A woman in a black niqab (veil), bloody tears coming from a bruised eye, and the caption: “Women under ISIS. Enslaved. Battered. ...

West Coast rappers The Game and Snoop Dogg arrived in downtown Los Angeles Friday moing, expecting to simply hold a protest over the deaths of black men at the hands of police. But their day took an unexpected tu when the longtime friends were invited into LAPD headquarters by police Chief Charlie Beck and Mayor Eric Garcetti for an impromptu mini-summit on race and policing. What emerged was a new coalition focused on reducing violence. Compton native The Game, whose birth name is Jayceon Terrell Taylor, implored the public to “save each other’s lives” at an emotional press conference following the meeting. In an unlikely pairing, the city’s top officials -- both white -- and two of Southe...

Longtime friends The Game and Snoop Dogg both woke up Friday moing deeply troubled by the recent deaths of black men at the hands of police officers. They headed downtown to lead a peaceful march outside Los Angeles Police Department headquarters. Then the day took an unexpected tu, when the famous rappers were invited to a small LAPD conference room for a mini-summit on race and policing with Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck and Mayor Eric Garcetti. • PHOTOS: Snoop Dogg and The Game march to LAPD headquarters in wake of police shootings, meet with mayor and police chief Emerging from the room after about 30 minutes, the foursome aounced plans for a new group focused on reducing violen...

A federal judge indicated this week he may throw out a lawsuit alleging Twitter bears responsibility for the death of an American who was killed last year as a result of a terrorist attack in Jordan. That case is similar to a new lawsuit filed Tuesday by the father of Nohemi Gonzalez, the Cal State Long Beach student killed by terrorists in November in Paris, against Twitter, Facebook and Google. Attoeys representing the plaintiffs in both cases have contended that tech companies have effectively supported terrorism since malefactors, like those who kill in the name of ISIS, use social media services to plan attacks, fundraise or recruit new members. Twitter declined to comment Thursday on ...

The father of Cal State Long Beach student Nohemi Gonzalez, killed in the Nov. 13 Paris terror attacks, is suing Google, Facebook and Twitter, alleging the social media giants have aided ISIS and other groups by allowing them to use their chaels to recruit members and coordinate attacks. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Northe Califoia, alleges the three companies “use their social networks as a tool for spreading extremist propaganda, raising funds and attracting new recruits.” The lawyer representing Nohemi’s father, Reynaldo Gonzalez, said this case is not about free speech, but about creating communication conduits that allow ISIS and other terror groups to plan, coo...

The family of Cal State Long Beach student Nohemi Gonzalez, killed in the Paris terror attacks, is suing Google, Facebook and Twitter, alleging the social media giants have aided ISIS and other groups by allowing them to use their chaels to recruit members and coordinate attacks. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Northe Califoia, alleges the three companies “use their social networks as a tool for spreading extremist propaganda, raising funds and attracting new recruits.” The lawyer representing the family, Michigan-based Keith Altman of Excolo Law, said this case is not about free speech, but about creating communication conduits that allow ISIS and other terror groups t...

The family of Cal State Long Beach student Nohemi Gonzalez, killed in the Paris terror attacks, is suing Google, Facebook and Twitter, alleging the social media giants have aided ISIS and other groups by allowing them to use their chaels to recruit members and coordinate attacks. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Northe Califoia, alleges the three companies “use their social networks as a tool for spreading extremist propaganda, raising funds and attracting new recruits.” The lawyer representing the family, Michigan-based Keith Altman of Excolo Law, said this case is not about free speech, but about creating communication conduits that allow ISIS and other terror groups t...

The family of Cal State Long Beach student Nohemi Gonzalez, killed in the Paris attacks, is suing Google, Facebook and Twitter, alleging the social media giants have aided terrorist groups by allowing them to use their chaels to recruit members and coordinate attacks. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Northe Califoia, alleges the three companies “use their social networks as a tool for spreading extremist propaganda, raising funds and attracting new recruits.” The lawyer representing the family, Michigan-based Keith Altman of Excolo Law, said this case is not about free speech, but about creating communication conduits that allow ISIS and other terror groups to plan, coord...

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have gone to war... on Twitter. The verbal sparring between the presumptive Democratic and Republican presidential nominees started Thursday afteoon after President Barack Obama endorsed Clinton. That endorsement didn’t sit well with Trump, who took to Twitter to express his discontent. “Obama just endorsed Crooked Hillary. He wants four more years of Obama—but nobody else does!” Trump tweeted at 11:22 a.m. It didn’t take long for Clinton to fire back with an epic three word takedown. “Delete your account,” the former secretary of state tweeted five minutes later. Trump, who’s known for his own epic social media assaults, responded two hours later with a men...