West Hills (Los Angeles, California)

The blue carpet is out, and West Hills Chaminade will soon have the only blue-turf football field in Southern California. I stopped by the campus Wednesday to see the construction progress on Chaminade's all-weather field. It's supposed to be completed......

Crime reports are up significantly for the latest week in 15 L.A. neighborhoods, according to an analysis of LAPD data by the Los Angeles Times’ Crime L.A. database. Four neighborhoods reported a significant increase in violent crime. Boyle...

"Wanna buy a song for a dime?" For many startled UCLA students and Sunset Strip sightseers in the 1960s, that was the way Larry "Wild Man" Fischer introduced himself. Anyone who took him up on his offer was rewarded with a brief, bellowing burst of...

A baggage screener at Los Angeles International Airport has been arrested on charges of stealing items from passengers' bags, authorities told The Times on Thursday afternoon. The Los Angeles Police Department said that it was preparing a statement on...

A single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza aircraft lost power Thursday evening and made an emergency landing at El Monte Airport. The pilot was the only person board and was not injured in the incident, which occurred about 6:45 p.m., said Ian Gregor,......

LOS ANGELES -- Authorities are searching for a man suspected of smuggling protected wildlife species, including piranhas. 61 year old Isaac Zimerman of West Hills missed his July 12 court hearing to face 13 charges, including conspiracy, illegal fish...

LOS ANGELES -- A young Afghan woman who was mutilated by her husband is now in Southern California where she will undergo a series of surgeries to repair her disfigured face. 18 year old Aisha, as she is known, arrived Friday evening at LAX to begin an...

San Fernando Valley business and civic leader Bruce Ackerman died Thursday after a battle with cancer. He was 64. A resident of West Hills, Ackerman had spent 10 years as the president and chief executive of the Valley Economic Alliance,......

How do we break this to Ponch? Federal regulators on Thursday brought securities fraud charges against more than a dozen penny stock promoters -- including Larry Wilcox, who played California Highway Patrol officer Jonathan “Jon” Baker on the 1970s...

Larry Wilcox, the former “CHiPs” TV star accused of securities fraud for manipulating penny stocks, has agreed to settle criminal charges in the case. Wilcox, 63, reached a plea agreement with the U.S. attorney’s office for southern Florida on July....

A motorist in Agoura Hills who allegedly struck and killed a bicyclist and fled the scene was arrested after witnesses followed her to a nearby parking lot and alerted authorities. The collision occurred at about 3:45 p.m. Saturday on Agoura......

Julian Harrell from Los Angeles Loyola and Damiene Cain from North Hollywood Harvard-Westlake are the co-most valuable players from the Mission League. First-team all-league picks were Matt Mounier of Encino Crespi, Max Guercy of Mission Hills Alemany,...