Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy accidentally fired a gun inside a courtroom last month, potentially injuring a colleague and prompting an internal investigation.

A civil rights lawsuit against the LA County Sheriff’s Department accuses deputies of severely beating a man.

An off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy was killed when a tire smashed into his windshield on a freeway and another deputy was hurt in a related crash, authorities said.

Even deputies who have seen scores of pursuits during their careers were surprised by what happened at the end of a chase and hours-long standoff east of Los Angeles.

U.S. District Court Judge John F. Walter wrote in a 2 page denial of Los Angeles County’s request that the public has a vested interest in whether agencies that are responsible for investigating and adjudicating complaints of misconduct have acted properly and wisely.

A veteran sheriff’s deputy is suing Los Angeles County, alleging he was subjected to retaliation by members of a deputy subgroup at the Compton Sheriff’s Station for resisting an alleged arrest quotas.

Vanessa Bryant, the widow of Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, publicly called for the LA County Sheriff’s Department to release the names of deputies who took or shared photos of Kobe Bryant, Gianna Bryant and seven other victims of a helicopter crash in Calabasas last January.

Attorneys for the family of a 29-year-old Black man who was fatally shot by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies in August after they stopped him for bicycling on the wrong side of a street said they are filing a claim against Los Angeles County.

A 25-year veteran officer with the Los Angeles Police Department died Monday of complications from COVID-19.

A special task force of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department conducted raids on five New Year’s Eve “super-spreader” parties across the county, making over 90 arrests and taking seven handguns off the streets, officials said Friday.

The parties took place throughout the county, in areas such as Palmdale, downtown Los Angeles and Compton. In total, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department made 235 arrests and recovered seven illegal firearms, according to the agency.

Proceedings begin Monday for the coroner’s office’s inquest into the June 18 death of 18-year-old Andres Guardado, who was fatally shot in the back by a sheriff’s deputy after running from authorities at an auto shop near Gardena, where he was employed as an informal security guard.

Los Angeles County deputies fatally shot a Black man early Sunday morning after he allegedly pointed a revolver in their direction, authorities said.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has released video of a fatal shooting that shows a deputy firing several shots at an armed man fleeing from a backyard during a chase on foot.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is set to consider on Tuesday how it might oust Sheriff Alex Villanueva from his post before voters have a chance to do so in 2022.

The body of a man was discovered inside a storage unit in the city of Hawaiian Gardens Thursday evening.

A man was shot and killed by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies after a brief chase in a South Los Angeles neighborhood.

One month after some members called on Alex Villanueva to resign, the county’s Civilian Oversight Commission on Thursday is scheduled to consider a resolution condemning the sheriff’s leadership and vowing to hold him accountable if he continues to “facilitate dysfunction” in the agency.

Health care providers demonstrated Tuesday evening outside the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center near Torrance, where a deputy shot and critically injured a patient earlier this month, to protest “gun violence and police brutality against unarmed victims, most especially within the walls of ours hospitals.”

Prosecutors have charged a 36-year-old man Wednesday with a brazen ambush of two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies earlier this month, an apparently unprovoked shooting as they sat in a squad car outside a rail station