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The mother and daughter newspaper carriers injured when police mistakenly fired on them during the February manhunt for ex-cop Christopher Dorner would receive $4.2 million under a settlement announced by city officials. The settlement was remarkably speedy compared with other LAPD civil lawsuits, which have taken years to be resolved. City Atty. Carmen Trutanich was blunt Tuesday in saying the city wanted to get the case, which has been a sore spot for the Police Department, behind it as quickly as possible.

As he campaigns to become the city's next controller, Councilman Dennis Zine said his first job in office would be to audit the Los Angeles Police Department's risk management division to find out why so many officers are involved in lawsuits. The city has spent as much as $50 million on legal settlements in recent years on cases it could have avoided if commanders did a better job supervising officers, says Zine, a former LAPD motorcycle officer who faces lawyer Ron Galperin in a May 21 runoff election.

Acting on a tip, authorities seized several pounds of homemade candy containing marijuana in a raid on an Altadena home. Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies also arrested two people at the home in the 500 block of Figueroa Street on Friday. Their names have not been released. Among the items taken by deputies were buckets of suckers, chocolate bars and equipment used to make them, along with bags of marijuana. “When it came in the smell was real big in the station for a time,” said sheriff's Sgt. Booker T. Hollis.

A jury Friday acquitted a Los Angeles police officer and a former LAPD officer on charges that they lied about a drunk-driving arrest. After deliberating only a few hours, jurors found Craig Allen and Phillip Walters were not guilty of the perjury charges they both faced, said Bill Seki, Allen's attorney. Allen was also cleared on an allegation of filing a false police report. The case stemmed from a DUI checkpoint in September 2010, where the two officers were working.    The pair were dispatched to assist another officer who had stopped a suspected drunk driver.

  Los Angeles and Long Beach police are increasing patrols on some of Southern California's largest events this weekend, like the CicLAvia biking event and the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, as the region remains jittery from the Boston bombing attacks. Officials said to expect more undercover officers and bomb sweeps. "We're going to have plenty of security. ... There's no specific threat to the L.A. region. None. I would know," Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told reporters Friday.

Los Angeles police say they have investigated three rape cases involving Occidental College students in the last three years, far fewer than current and former students outline in a civil rights complaint. In the U.S. Department of Education complaint filed Thursday, attorney Gloria Allred's law firm, which represents several current and former students, alleges that 37 students were "raped, sexually assaulted, battered, harassed or retaliated against for speaking out against sexual violence" since 2009.

A jury Friday acquitted a Los Angeles police officer and a former officer on charges that they lied about a drunk-driving arrest. After deliberating only a few hours, jurors found Phillip Walters and Craig Allen not guilty of the perjury charges, said Bill Seki, Allen's attorney. Allen also was cleared on an allegation of filing a false police report. The case stemmed from a DUI checkpoint in September 2010, where the two officers were working. The pair were dispatched to assist another officer who had stopped a drunk driving suspect.

A telephone warning that a bomb would go off in two hours prompted the evacuation and closure of the Cal State L.A. campus Thursday afternoon, Los Angeles police said. LAPD Assistant Chief Michel Moore said school administrators, after learning of the threat sometime before noon, made the decision to evacuate the El Sereno campus and cancel classes as a precaution. The LAPD Bomb Squad was on the scene coordinating with campus police, Moore said. No suspicious packages had been located and the campus had not received any previous threats, Moore said.

Los Angeles police cleared Cal State L.A. on Thursday afternoon after a bomb threat forced the evacuation and closure of the campus. The campus was cleared about 2:30 p.m., police said. However, it remained closed off more than an hour later, and a university tweet said classes were canceled for the remainder of the day. About 4 p.m., a bomb squad was examining a backpack left behind at a McDonald's at Eastern Avenue and Ramona Boulevard, near the main university entrance.

Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck says the public plays an important role in security and that "your safety is your responsibility as well as mine. " His blunt words came in response to Monday's bomb attack in Boston, saying there is only so much police can do. "In the city of Los Angeles this raises extreme concern. Obviously we are a city that loves its crowds, loves its sporting events, and the Los Angeles Police Department will take every effort to make those safe," Beck said.