2 February 2012, 8:44 pm
For the second time in a few years, the Torrance Police Department is entangled in a legal challenge of its policy on issuing concealed weapons permits.... Read More »
1 February 2012, 7:29 pm
It wasn't a veteran crime detective or a Neighborhood Watch group or even a suspicious parent who helped put a 61-year-old Torrance resident with no previous criminal record in jail for allegedly committing lewd acts on children at the Florence-area school where he taught.... Read More »
31 January 2012, 10:50 pm
California law requires photo-developing stores to contact police if they see suspected child porn or abuse and it was such a tip that helped police crack the case of a local teacher arrested for photos allegedly showing students bound and gagged.... Read More »
31 January 2012, 2:30 pm
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A former Los Angeles-area elementary school teacher has been charged with lewd acts on children, including putting cockroaches on students' faces and offering them a spoonful of what may have been semen, authorities said on Tuesday. Mark Berndt, 61, was arrested at his ho... Read More »
31 January 2012, 8:40 am
TODAY'S ARRAIGNMENT POSTPONED TO FEB. 21: A Torrance man who taught at a Florence school for 30 years is suspected of molesting 23 children, photographing them with their eyes blindfolded, their mouths covered with tape and with large cockroaches crawling over their faces, deputies said Tuesday.... Read More »
28 January 2012, 5:08 pm
Torrance taxpayers have paid $300,000 to settle a federal lawsuit stemming from a Police Department policy of unconstitutionally entering private property without proper authority.... Read More »
27 January 2012, 10:40 pm
Teen jumps to his death despite mom's pleas Associated Press Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 11:17 a.m., Friday, January 27, 2012 A Southern California teenager has jumped to his death fro... Read More »
27 January 2012, 3:55 pm
Hawthorne police Officer Andrew Garton was remembered Friday as a family man who committed himself to his department and its residents. | PHOTOS | FUNERAL... Read More »
24 January 2012, 1:01 pm
Centinela Valley Union High School District board member Gloria Ramos was arrested Monday for allegedly assaulting her niece in Hawthorne, police said Tuesday.... Read More »
17 January 2012, 11:51 am
Police are trying to identify a man who entered a parking structure in the 800 block of South Grand Avenue on Oct. 1, smashed the rear window of a car and took a guitar from inside.... Read More »
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