A Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department inmate transport van was involved in a crash Monday morning on the northbound 5 Freeway in Mission Hills.
The man was apparently armed with a chainsaw and at one point was pouring gasoline out as he sat in the back of a pickup truck.
One person was found dead after a house fire in Mission Hills early Wednesday morning.
A Southern California hospital is offering a gift to employees designed to make their holidays safer: Free gun locks.
A series of threatening phone calls made to several schools in the San Fernando Valley prompted immediate lockdowns Tuesday morning, but after an hours-long investigation, police found no evidence of any threat.
A wild crash involving a reckless driver on the 405 Freeway was caught on video.