3 dead in copter crash on US reality TV set
By Christopher Weber, Terry Tang
Three people were killed in a pre-dawn helicopter crash Sunday in a rural area of Los Angeles County, authorities said.

Three people were killed in a pre-dawn helicopter crash Sunday in a rural area of Los Angeles County, authorities said.

Los Angeles on Sunday announced a $1 million reward for information leading to the capture of an ex-cop accused of “domestic terrorism” in a murder spree that has claimed three lives.

A woman suspected of making and appearing in child porn photos a decade ago that have circulated widely in the years since was arrested hours after authorities released images of her taken from those shots, federal officials announced Friday.

Long lines of cars and people formed Wednesday to take advantage of a guns-for-groceries exchange program that was moved up in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting.

Authorities searched an airplane scheduled to depart from Los Angeles International Airport after someone called police and made a bomb threat.

Police searched for a gunman who wore a painter’s mask when he set fire to a home before going on a shooting spree early Saturday, killing a father and his 4-year-old son and injuring a woman and two other young children near Los Angeles.

A teacher arrested at Los Angeles International Airport wearing a bulletproof vest and with checked bags containing knives, body bags, a smoke grenade and other weapons also had files on his computer detailing how to kidnap and kill people, federal authorities disclosed Friday.

A 4.1 magnitude earthquake shook Los Angeles, California at 16:33 GMT Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said.

A bear which became a minor star in Los Angeles, with over 24,000 Twitter followers, was returned to the wild Sunday after being found asleep in a tree, officials said.
Four airport security screeners have been arrested in Los Angeles for accepting bribes to allow bags filled with illegal drugs to pass through a checkpoint, a federal agency announced Wednesday.

A second teacher at an inner-city elementary school where a teacher is accused of committing lewd acts on 23 children was arrested Friday on suspicion of fondling two girls in his classroom.
The wife of Sen. Lito Lapid returned to Las Vegas, Nevada, on Jan. 15 at the invitation of the Department of Homeland Security in connection with the offense she committed in November 2011 of not declaring the $50,000, she carried to the United States, her American lawyer said on Saturday.

A German man was charged Wednesday with 37 counts of arson in connection with a rash of fires that terrorized Los Angeles over the New Year’s weekend.