Winnetka (Los Angeles, California)

WOODLAND HILLS -- An investigation is underway as to why a high school cross-country track meet wasn't cancelled amid dangerously hot and humid conditions. 12 girls were overcome by heat, 10 were hospitalized during a meet Thursday afternoon at Pierce...

WEST SAN FERNANDO VALLEY ( KTLA) -- Crime in five West San Fernando Valley neighborhoods has increased significantly according to crime alerts on the Times Crime L.A. database. According to reports from the area, there were several recent rapes and...

PASADENA (KTLA) -- A former probation camp teacher was sentenced Friday to jail for staging fights between students. Stephen Wesley, 44, pleaded no contest last January to six counts of felony child abuse, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's...

LOS ANGELES -- The FBI and the Los Angeles Police Department are searching for a bank robbery suspect dubbed the "Chaw Bandit." The suspect, who appeared to be chewing tobacco during one of his heists, is accused in at least five bank robberies in Los...

LOS ANGELES -- The City of Los Angeles has officially lifted evacuation orders for residents of many burn areas, allowing hundreds of people to return home. As of 5:00 p.m. Friday, many evacuation orders were lifted, including all orders in Glendale...

LOS ANGELES -- There's no question about it, traffic's bad in Southern California. But it wasn't much better back in the day before traffic signals, freeways, and stop signs were installed. Steve Hymon, the transportation reporter for the Los Angeles...

WOODLAND HILLS -- A driver who fatally struck a 15-year-old boy in Woodland Hills later died after crashing into another car, authorities said. Patrick Angelo Demesa of Winnetka was crossing Ventura Boulevard at Kelvin Avenue in the crosswalk around 5 p....

LOS ANGELES -- A man suspected of burglarizing a dozen cars in the San Fernando Valley barricaded himself inside a home in Winnetka for 11 hours Saturday before police shot tear gas into the home, forcing him to surrender. Michael Krieger, 32, was...

LOS ANGELES -- A man who was selling magazine subscriptions door-to-door was arrested for allegedly robbing and trying to rape a woman in Winnetka. Gerald Vidal, 23, of Texas, was being held in lieu of $5.6 million bail. Officers were called to a home...

WINNETKA -- The ex-boyfriend of a single mother who was found stabbed to death in the back seat of her car in Winnetka was charged with murder Thursday. Fredy Hernandez, 30, of East Los Angeles, is charged with one count of murder with the allegation...

WOODLAND HILLS -- Department of Water and Power crews are hard at work, fixing two more water main breaks in the San Fernando Valley. The most recent occurred sometime before 5 a.m. in the area of Burbank Boulevard and Irondale Avenue in Woodland Hills,...

LOS ANGELES - Police have released photos of a suspect who tried to rob an ATM customer in the San Fernando Valley. It happened about 2:10 a.m. Monday at a bank of ATMs in the 20,000 block of Roscoe Boulevard in Winnetka. Police say the suspect...