Palmdale deputies are looking for two men who may have been potential witnesses to an attempted robbery in July.

Sheriff's deputies asked for the public's help today to find two men who tried to rob an automated teller machine customer in Palmdale.

A Van Nuys man on Thursday was sentenced to death for the brutal murder of his girlfriend's 5-year-old daughter, a case the judge described as the worst instance of torture he'd seen in his 37-year career.

A suspected burglar was fatally shot early Wednesday after a confrontation with a Lancaster store owner, officials said.

The Los Angeles County coroner's office says a 15-year-old girl who collapsed during the Electric Daisy Carnival rave in June died as the result of an Ecstasy overdose.

Los Angeles County supervisors offered a $20,000 reward today in hopes of tracking down whoever firebombed two churches in the Antelope Valley.

A 9-year-old Acton girl was hospitalized in critical condition today after a vehicle struck her and her mother, killing the woman, authorities said.

A sobriety and driver's license checkpoint in Lancaster resulted in two arrests for outstanding warrants, 18 vehicles impounded and 27 tickets issued, a sheriff's deputy reported today.

At a time that racial bias in policing is under scrutiny, a report released Friday found that sheriff's deputies in the Antelope Valley were involved in a disproportionate number of "contempt of cop" charges involving minority suspects.

Firefighters face a weekend of high temperatures and erratic winds as they work to contain a fast-moving wildfire that by Friday night had blackened 20 square miles near densely populated areas of Palmdale. | See photo gallery.