A four-week dawn sweep targets drug use and encampments outside the downtown library, where guard staffing has been slashed for budget reasons.

A shooting at the Mezzo luxury apartments on Peachtree Road left one man dead; his friend, who was not shot, was hospitalized for other injuries early Friday.

Four people are in custody after a stolen Nissan led LAPD from Downtown streets to the 405 and back to Mid-City.