Missing postal key endangers mail at businesses and apartments in Alhambra
Federal investigators are looking into the loss from the Alhambra Post Office of a universal key used to unlock group mailboxes at apartments and businesses throughout the city. Investigators are...
View ArticleStem cell destruction leads to lawsuits against Children’s Hospital LA
Families of five young cancer patients sued Children’s Hospital Los Angeles on Thursday, Aug. 19, over the 2019 malfunction of a cryogenic freezer that destroyed stem cells from dozens of children. The...
View ArticleCalifornia commission to consider lowering phone rates for jail inmates
State regulators will consider lowering telephone rates in California’s jails, where a 15-minute call can reach more than $26. The California Public Utilities Commission announced Thursday, Oct. 8,...
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Live updates: As polls close, here’s what’s happening around Southern California
10 p.m. In San Bernardino County, the last voter just entered the polling place in Phelan, and six other voters at that location are still filling out their ballots. Everywhere else in the county is...
View ArticleElection Day goes off without any major hitches locally
Prosecutors braced for polling place shenanigans. Election officials throughout Southern California prepared for long lines and impatient voters. Polling place workers got ready for visitors who...
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Watchdog group urges appeals court to lift secrecy on disability pensions for...
The most famous culprit may be Randy Adams, who secured a promise from the city of Bell to support his future disability retirement even before he became police chief. The city of San Fernando said...
View ArticleWalt Disney’s grandson seeking ouster of judge who wrongly asserted he has...
Walt Disney’s grandson is asking state judicial watchdogs to remove a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge from the bench for asserting falsely that he may have Down syndrome and lodging other...
View ArticleGov. Newsom calls up California National Guard in preparation for...
Gov. Gavin Newsom called on the California Army National Guard on Thursday to boost security at the state capital in Sacramento following last week’s attack on Congress by a mob incited by President...
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Movie about drug rehab’s dark side sparks pushback, even as legislators seek...
The fast-cut trailer to the new movie “Body Brokers” is a dizzying and seductive collage of guns, cash, addiction and prostitutes, punctuated by a nicely dressed man holding a finger to his pursed lips...
View ArticleFather and son from Inland Empire must pay $26.7 million for drug rehab fraud
A father-son team must pay $26.7 million in restitution, and do time in federal prison, for fraudulently signing up addicts for health insurance and getting kickbacks from treatment centers in...
View ArticleCalifornia prison phone rates to fall under new contract with vendor
Inmates at California state prisons will save $17 million a year on telephone calls under the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s new contract with its phone vendor. The six-year contract...
View ArticleOCDA Spitzer heeds warnings from Seal Beach mass killing as he considers...
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer stood before news cameras after four people died in a violent rampage this week in Orange and harkened back nearly 10 years ago to a massacre that left...
View ArticlePeople injured by police would be eligible for crime victim funds under bill...
Californians injured by police or family members of those killed in such encounters may qualify for financial compensation from the state crime victims fund under a controversial bill making its way...
View ArticleHere’s how Derek Chauvin was convicted of both murder and manslaughter
The three guilty verdicts against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin indicate the jury believed he caused the death of George Floyd not intentionally, but with negligence and reckless...
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LA County DA George Gascon is center stage in national revolution to reform...
America’s criminal justice system is in the throes of a revolution. From Chicago to Philadelphia and Boston to San Francisco — and now Los Angeles — voters have elected progressive prosecutors...
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‘Turn yourselves in,’ Orange County DA warns 55 Freeway shooting suspects
The killers of a 6-year-old boy on the 55 Freeway have “about 24 hours to turn yourselves in,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer announced at a news conference in Orange on Thursday morning,...
View ArticleGov. Newsom orders probe of Kevin Cooper case as convict in Chino Hills...
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday, May 28, ordered an independent investigation into the high-profile case of Kevin Cooper, a death row inmate convicted in the 1983 slaying of three members of a Chino Hills...
View ArticleMan and woman arrested in shooting death of 6-year-old Aiden Leos on 55...
A man and woman suspected in the May 21 shooting death of 6-year-old Aiden Anthony Leos on the 55 Freeway in Orange were arrested in Costa Mesa on Sunday, June 6, the California Highway Patrol said....
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Gun, car used in shooting death of 6-year-old boy on 55 Freeway found,...
The suspected gun and car used in the road-rage death of a six-year-old last month on the 55 Freeway in Orange have been found, the California Highway Patrol said Monday, June 7, just hours after Aiden...
View ArticleMarcus Eriz, suspected shooter in the death of 6-year-old Aiden Leos, liked...
Marcus Anthony Eriz, the 24-year-old Costa Mesa man accused of killing 6-year-old Aiden Leos in a fit of road rage, had a penchant for firearms and Mazda Miatas, his beloved “Yatas.” He also could be,...
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