An Alamogordo man who shot a police officer in the head with a sawed-off shotgun during a foot chase last year has been sentenced to life in prison for the killing. Twelfth Judicial District Attorney's Office Chief Administrative Officer Jesse Grajeda said in a statement that Dominic De La O,

Mayor Karen Bass swore in the city’s new chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, Jim McDonnell, at a morning ceremony Thursday, Nov. 14 at Elysian Park Academy near downtown as his wife Kathy looked on — and even adjusted his chief’s hat. He becomes the 59th chief of the LAPD.

Jim McDonnell is the first person to serve in senior executive leadership positions in three of the largest policing agencies in Los Angeles County: the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, the Los Angeles Police Department,