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Los Angeles mayor picks new police chief

Deputy Chief Charlie Beck, a 32-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, has been chosen to replace Chief William Bratton, the Los Angeles mayor's office said Tuesday.

Los Angeles police chief to resign

Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton, who imposed sweeping reforms on his scandal-battered department after taking office in 2002, is resigning to take a job training police in developing nations, he announced Wednesday.

Portrait of Jackson's pill consumption emerges

Singer Michael Jackson took more than 10 Xanax pills a night, asking his employees to get the prescription medicine under their names and also personally traveling to doctors' offices in other states to obtain them, said a confidential document from 2004 that CNN obtained Thursday.

Source: Jackson family aware probe could be criminal case

The Jackson family knows that the probe into singer Michael Jackson's death could turn into a criminal case, a source close to the family told CNN Thursday.

Police officer accused of killing romantic rival in 1986

A veteran police detective in Los Angeles, California, was arrested Friday morning on suspicion of killing a former lover's wife in 1986, marking a rare instance in which the department has arrested one of its own, Police Chief William Bratton said.

DNA leads to suspect in 1970s Los Angeles serial killings

A man who Los Angeles police believe raped and murdered dozens of women decades ago was arrested by cold case investigators this month after a computer matched his DNA to evidence from two killings in the 1970s.

Winds hinder firefighting efforts near Los Angeles

Wildfires driven by hurricane-strength winds tore through Southern California on Saturday for the second day in a row, destroying hundreds of homes, displacing thousands of people and forcing freeway closures and rotating blackouts.

People.com: John Mayer Calls on City Hall to 'Regulate' Paparazzi

But the L.A. police chief says he disagrees now that Britney, Paris and Lindsay are behaving

L.A. police chief disses proposed 'Britney Law'

The sponsor of a proposal to rein in aggressive celebrity photographers is meeting resistance from Los Angeles' top cop, who says the law is not needed when celebrities just behave.

Football star, 17, slain before he could answer gang

Jamiel Shaw was just three doors from his house on March 2. His father told the 17-year-old high school football star to be home before dark. That is exactly what he was trying to do when, just before dusk, gunshots rang out.

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