Each of the LAPD's 21 stations and divisions will be allowed 10 cases a month in which fingerprint evidence will be promptly analyzed. Violent crime cases are not part of the rationing plan. A shortage of fingerprint experts at the Los Angeles Police Department has caused a large backlog of unanalyzed fingerprints, resulting in long delays to thousands of active criminal investigations.

With housing inventory at a low, would-be buyers are scrambling to bid on homes before they're even listed, and real estate agents are vying to represent the few sellers that do exist.The newest problem for the slowly improving housing market isn't a shortage of serious buyers, it's a shortage of good homes.

Growers worried about a possible labor shortage need to sharpen their political tools and spur Washington to take action.FRESNO — It was around 2 o'clock, temperatures rising under an arcing sun, when I met two workers on a peach farm near here recently.

California growers warn of a labor shortage unless a system is implemented to temporarily allow pickers into the United States legally.DELANO, Calif. — "You'd think agriculture would have Republican politicians on our side, but on this issue we don't," Kevin Andrew was saying as we toured some grape fields north of Bakersfield, where farmworkers were thinning vines.

Despite a large number of applicants and a city policy designed to limit nepotism, two people with family ties to the City Council were given seats on traffic and planning commissions.There was no shortage of candidates to serve as traffic and planning commissioners in Garden Grove last March. More than 40 residents with university degrees and backgrounds in real estate, construction and traffic e...

The senator tells Homeland Security agency that a shortage of immigration agents is causing security risks and unnecessary problems for travelers.U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Tuesday called on federal officials to find ways to eliminate long delays for passengers who go through immigration and customs processing at Los Angeles International Airport.

Predictably, politics has dominated the reaction and commentary about Saturday's deadly rampage in Arizona, with no shortage of wild speculation as to whether festering national divisiveness was to blame for the shootings.

The Legislature is blamed for the lack of enough judges to preside at trials. The ruling ends prosecutions for about 300 people.A shortage of judges in Riverside County has led to the dismissal of hundreds of criminal cases, a practice the California Supreme Court upheld on Monday and blamed on the state's budget woes.

Governor issues one-day stay of execution to allow an appeal period to elapse. If the lethal injection goes on as planned Thursday, it could be the last one for at least a year due to a shortage of a key drug.Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday ordered a one-day delay in the execution of convicted rapist- murderer Albert Greenwood Brown, citing a procedural complication in the state's attempt to ...

As soon as 2014, there could be long waits for autopsies and the agency’s national accreditation could be threatened as staff members retire and fewer trainees are recruited, the study shows. The Los Angeles County coroner's department risks a shortage of doctors by 2014, according to an audit released...

A Woodland Hills physician, his parents and a brother in medical school help fill the shortage of medical professionals needed to treat thousands of needy patients. When organizers of a massive free clinic scrambled this week to find volunteer doctors to treat thousands of needy patients at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, t...