An Encino attorney, three chiropractors and a handful of legal aides were arrested Thursday for alleged involvement in a large-scale auto insurance fraud ring involving more than 300 suspects, authorities said Thursday.

Authorities said Wednesday that they are “astounded” by the heroic actions of a 7-year-old boy who hid with his younger sister in a bathroom and called 911 while armed robbers broke into his home and threatened his parents.

BURBANK – Today’s scheduled arraignment was postponed until March 25 for a former sixth-grade teacher arrested after she told authorities she’d had a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old male student.

Authorities say five of the six people killed in last week’s bus crash in Arizona were California residents.

BURBANK – A Burbank middle school teacher who turned herself in to authorities after feeling guilty about an alleged sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student will be arraigned today in Burbank Superior Court.

Three men who authorities described as “prolific identity theft suspects” were arrested Monday as part of a four-year investigation that revealed more than 15,000 victims in Lancaster, Santa Clarita and Los Angeles and totaled a loss of nearly $3 million.

Firefighters stumbled around huge piles of books, newspapers and old furniture Monday to battle a blaze in a “packrat” home where an elderly couple died, authorities said.

Johnny Pride, a Santa Clarita city Council Candidate and reality-show contestant who had been arrested for the alleged rape of two 14-year-old girls, was released from custody Saturday because of “insufficient evidence,” authorities said.

A burglary suspect led Tustin police and other law enforcement officers on a car chase to the Sepulveda Boulevard tunnel under the runways at Los Angeles International Airport today, then crashed the car and was arrested, authorities said.

An investigation was under way today into the fatal shooting of a young woman in a Lancaster neighborhood.