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A man shot by Alhambra police inside the police headquarters lobby on Friday morning has died, a coroner's spokesman said. One or more Alhambra police officers fired their guns about 7:30 a.m. inside the police station on Commonwealth Avenue, hitting a suspect, said Sheriff's Capt. Mike Parker. Officials said they were still gathering information and could not yet say exactly what happened inside the station. Los Angeles County coroner's spokesman Ed Winter said the man was pronounced dead at the scene.

WATSONVILLE, Calif. - She introduced herself as Sarani Hernandez and said in Spanish that she needed help. She took a seat in the lobby of the police station. Officer Elizabeth Sousa was asked to talk to her. It was a quiet morning a few days after Thanksgiving. She listened as the woman began telling the story of an abduction. Her two boys were being held in Juarez, Mexico, she said; they were U.S. citizens. Hernandez opened her cellphone to a picture of Edwin and Angel, sent as evidence they were still alive.

Dozens of prisoners broke out of their cells and tried to escape early Monday morning as Nigerian authorities battled with gunmen at a police station on the edge of Abuja. Two officers were killed during the gunfight, police spokesman Frank Mba said in a statement . Thirty prisoners broke free during the melee, Mba said, but all but five were returned to custody thanks to "tactical and coordinated efforts. " Two suspected members of the "large number" of attackers were also arrested, according to the police statement.

An investigation continued Sunday into what motivated a machete-wielding man to smash the windows of eight patrol cars at an Inglewood police station and then threaten an officer with the weapon before being shot to death, officials said. The shooting occurred shortly before 6 p.m. Saturday when the man charged the officer outside the Manchester Boulevard station, the Inglewood Police Department said in a statement. The officer shot the man once in the upper body, and he later died at a hospital, the statement said.

Our City Council just approved spending $4 million in taxpayer dollars to buy land on Sepulveda Boulevard in Mission Hills to build a new police station ("City Votes to Buy Valley LAPD Site," Oct. 20). Once again we are shaking our heads in disbelief. Why would our City Council spend $4 million in taxpayer dollars when they have been sitting on five acres of land at the old GM site in Panorama City, which was donated to the city by General Motors for building a much-needed north Valley station?

A man suspected of raping a Laguna Beach woman turned himself in Friday after police sought the public's help in finding him. Babak Azadgilani, known as "Bobby," 26, of Laguna Niguel, turned himself in at 5:30 p.m. at the front counter of the Laguna Beach Police Department and was booked on a $100,000 warrant for rape, Capt. Jason Kravetz wrote in an email. Azadgilani is suspected of assaulting the woman in her home during the late afternoon of April 21, according to police. The victim contacted police after the assault and police believe Azadgilani fled on his BMW motorcycle before officers arrived at the scene.

The man killed in the lobby of Alhambra police headquarters Friday brandished a knife before officers fatally shot him, said L.A. County sheriff's officials. The man walked into the lobby about 7:30 a.m. carrying a black backpack, but when officers tried to speak to him in several different languages, he was unresponsive and incoherent, said officials with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. The suspect eventually pulled out a large knife from his backpack and three of the five officers standing in the lobby shot the man, authorities said.  Los Angeles County coroner's spokesman Ed Winter said the man was pronounced dead at the scene.

Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan, and Peshawar, Pakistan -- A suicide car bomber today targeted a police station in the volatile northwest city of Peshawar, killing 15 people in the sixth major attack by militants in less than two weeks. The attack occurred at the Crimes Investigation Agency headquarters, an interrogation wing of the city's police department. A car filled with explosives drove up to the agency's main gate, where the driver detonated the blast, said Peshawar Police Chief Liaqat Ali Khan.

A law enforcement official investigating this week's massacre of 72 migrants in northern Mexico was missing Friday, while possible car bomb explosions rocked a television station and police station in the same violence-torn state. Meanwhile, authorities in Tamaulipas state said they had so far identified the remains of 31 of the massacre victims and determined that they were from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Brazil. Tamaulipas officials said Roberto Suarez, an agent for the state prosecutor's office involved in the investigation, went missing Wednesday.

For sale: One police station in the middle of Los Angeles. Slightly used. Looking for an office building with bulletproof windows, mirrored interrogation rooms and a big vault? It could be yours for just $4.5 million. The seller is motivated. The two-story structure west of downtown is also rather notorious. Among its previous occupants were members of the Los Angeles Police Department's anti-gang CRASH unit (short for Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums), who were accused of running a rogue operation that framed suspects, administered beatings, stole drugs and committed other crimes.

A man suspected of raping a Laguna Beach woman turned himself in Friday after police sought the public's help in finding him. Babak Azadgilani, known as "Bobby," 26, of Laguna Niguel, turned himself in at 5:30 p.m. at the front counter of the Laguna Beach Police Department and was booked on a $100,000 warrant for rape, Capt. Jason Kravetz wrote in an email. Azadgilani is suspected of assaulting the woman in her home during the late afternoon of April 21, according to police. The victim contacted police after the assault and police believe Azadgilani fled on his BMW motorcycle before officers arrived at the scene.

Two men were wounded in separate shootings near the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum late Friday and early Saturday, police said. A 25-year-old man was shot and wounded while stopped at a traffic light Friday night, police said. About 9:40 p.m, the man was stopped at Vernon and Vermont avenues when a car pulled up alongside and a person inside opened fire, said Norma Eisenman, an Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman. The man, whose name has not been released, drove himself to a police station and was then taken by paramedics to a hospital, she said.

The man killed in the lobby of Alhambra police headquarters Friday brandished a knife before officers fatally shot him, said L.A. County sheriff's officials. The man walked into the lobby about 7:30 a.m. carrying a black backpack, but when officers tried to speak to him in several different languages, he was unresponsive and incoherent, said officials with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. The suspect eventually pulled out a large knife from his backpack and three of the five officers standing in the lobby shot the man, authorities said.  Los Angeles County coroner's spokesman Ed Winter said the man was pronounced dead at the scene.

A man shot by Alhambra police inside the police headquarters lobby on Friday morning has died, a coroner's spokesman said. One or more Alhambra police officers fired their guns about 7:30 a.m. inside the police station on Commonwealth Avenue, hitting a suspect, said Sheriff's Capt. Mike Parker. Officials said they were still gathering information and could not yet say exactly what happened inside the station. Los Angeles County coroner's spokesman Ed Winter said the man was pronounced dead at the scene.

By 6 p.m. Friday, Watertown Police Chief Edward Deveau was discouraged. Six of his officers had battled heavily armed Boston Marathon bombing suspects early that morning. None of the six were hurt, but one suspect got away. Authorities had spent all day scouring 20 blocks of Watertown for 19-year old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Nothing. Figuring they couldn't keep the town locked down any longer, police told the public they were free to leave their homes. Some of Deveau's officers started to head home.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Police in California may not take into custody someone cited for a mere infraction unless the person lacks identification or refuses to sign a written promise to appear in court or provide a fingerprint, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The decision by the U.S. 9thCircuit Court of Appeals clears the way for a man arrested for trespassing to obtain financial compensation from San Francisco for being hauled to the police station and searched before being released.

The City Council will hold a meeting Tuesday to allow the public a chance to comment on the proposed financing of a new $8.8-million police station. The public hearing will be held at 7 p.m. in the Kay Dalton Room of the Monrovia Community Center, 119 W. Palm St. The focus of the hearing will be the formation of a special assessment district that would raise the funds for the proposed 30,000-square-foot station.

MOSCOW - The Russian underworld calls him "Sportsman" for his physical strength and stamina. Police identify him as "High-Tech" because of his allegedly ingenious ways of stealing luxury cars. Now Igor Lovygin has captivated Russia for daring behavior this week apparently motivated by the accidental death of one of his young daughters, who drowned during a family vacation in Dubai. Lovygin, 36, the reputed leader of the country's most brazen car theft gang and a murder suspect wanted by authorities, accompanied his daughter's coffin to Russia, was arrested at Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow, and then escaped from officers Wednesday night after being transferred to St. Petersburg.