Tina Padilla, executive director of a Northeast Los Angeles-based gang interventionist group called Community Warriors 4 Peace, is among those pushing for better pay and benefits for workers tasked ...

Dozens of suspected members of a South Los Angeles gang have been arrested and are facing federal charges for drug crimes and at least three murders, the United States Department of Justice announced.

Authorities in Los Angeles announced charges Tuesday against suspected members of a San Pedro gang, including a state ...

THIS MORNING, THE SUSPECTED LEADER OF THE LOS ANGELES CRIPS IS FACING CRIMINAL CHARGES. FEDERAL PROSECUTORS SAY 58 YEAR OLD EUGENE HENLEY, ALSO KNOWN AS BIG. U, USED A FAKE ANTI-GANG CHARITY TO ...

BOYLE HEIGHTS, Calif. (KABC) -- In his 1993 award-winning book "Always Running", Luis J. Rodriguez chronicles his days in L.A. gangs in the 60s and 70s. The Los Angeles Poet Laureate has now ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Music executive and alleged L.A. gang leader Eugene Henley Jr. was named in a 43-count federal criminal indictment on Thursday. Prosecutors accuse Henley, 58, of racketeering, ...

A South Los Angeles gang leader who is accused of acting as a community activist while running a criminal enterprise pleaded not guilty to numerous federal charges, including racketeering, murder, ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office arrested a man on Wednesday who is believed to ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An alleged leader of a Los Angeles street gang who’s accused of murder, kidnapping and extortion appeared in court Thursday afternoon, a day after he posted a video declaring his ...