A teenager who was playing handball on the courts of Grover Cleveland High School in Los Angeles, Calif. was fatally stabbed Wednesday, and police hav...

LOS ANGELES -- When Agustin Lizama was 11 years old, he joined a gang. When he was 12, he was shot. He remembers coming home from school that day a...

LOS ANGELES -- When Dorene Marcias was 16, a traumatizing experience made her want her own gun. She saw her boyfriend's father shoot himself, under...

LOS ANGELES — While behind bars for three decades, a convicted murderer and member of the Mexican Mafia controlled a network of Los Angeles stre...

This Spring clothing line is making us cringe -- and not just because of its outlandish prints and clashing colors. The debut collection by Colora...

A teen who volunteered at gang-prevention programs was gunned down in a "gang-style" slaying at the Jackie Tatum/Harvard Recreation Center Tuesday aft...

"Gangs are not inherently negative, do not come like outside aliens, but arise among our sons and daughters, and they need healing, a public health approach, a community-based approach."

"No Respect Inc! we a family! you f*ck w one of us you f*ck w ALL of us B*tch!," reads a status update on No RespectInc's Facebook. No RespectInc i...

LOS ANGELES -- Two teens were shot and wounded in an apparent gang shooting Thursday outside a Los Angeles park participating in the city's much-vaunt...

LOS ANGELES — Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena got a front row seat to Los Angeles gang violence. The actors, who were on riding along with polic...

LOS ANGELES — Authorities say a Los Angeles bus passenger has been shot and wounded while protecting his teenage son from a gunman. One person h...

LOS ANGELES — A staff member in the Los Angeles mayor's gang-reduction office has been arrested on suspicion of attacking police officers during...

In 1988, Gregory Boyle opened a school; four years later, he launched Homeboy Industries. Gang members looking for a way out of the cycle of violence and death showed up.

Today I announced with Chief Beck $1.1 million in grants from the Department of Justice that will have a far-reaching impact on how we as a City work to assist victims and prosecute domestic violence crimes.

LA County has 850,000 children trapped in its gang hot zones. The City of LA has 300,000 of those kids in its boundaries.

LOS ANGELES — When Ronald "Loony" Barron urged a young graffiti tagger to put away his paint cans, he was doing what he viewed as his mission &n...

LOS ANGELES — A suspect was arrested Tuesday in the killing of a well-known anti-gang counselor who was shot to death when he confronted a tagge...

LOS ANGELES — After a lengthy legal fight, an anti-gang activist accused of still participating in gang life by ordering a hit on a rival was gr...