2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (655+ words) A 22-year-old woman was convicted Thursday of a fatal hit-and-run collision that killed a man in Laguna Beach four years ago. Sysillia Kianna Morrison Montes De Oca was convicted of gross vehicular manslaughter, hit and run with permanent and serious…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (776+ words) UC Berkeley’s law school discriminated against white and Asian applicants by illegally using race in admissions, the Department of Justice alleged Wednesday in an investigative finding that expands the Trump administration’s probes into University of California admissions practices. For more…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (535+ words) A judge dismissed federal charges Wednesday against a former member of a city-funded “peace ambassador” program in Los Angeles who was accused of being an 18th Street gang member and felon in possession of body armor earlier this year. Alvarez was…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1082+ words) SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s pending defamation case against Fox News could go to trial in early 2028, around the same time the governor could be running a 2028 campaign for president. Newsom sued the news network last year over its coverage of…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1799+ words) Rafael Vela Gonzalez was a few steps away from the front door of his Silver Lake home when two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents grabbed him in early January. The 66-year-old, originally from El Salvador, had been in the U.S. since…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (890+ words) A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge is calling on the county to show that it is acting ethically and professionally in a lawsuit by the L.A. County Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission seeking Sheriff’s Department records related to three use-of-force incidents....

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (1055+ words) The Los Angeles federal public defender’s office on Friday joined a renewed effort to oust Bill Essayli, the top federal prosecutor in Southern California, accusing the government of “playing shadow games with the most consequential powers a government can wield…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (466+ words) A Los Angeles County man will soon be freed from state prison where he spent 12 years after being wrongfully convicted of shooting two men in Lynwood in 2013, prosecutors said Friday. “Today was a great day for justice. Often when a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1563+ words) For over a decade, Goodland Guns operated in an unassuming strip mall in Old Town Goleta, where it sold handguns, rifles and ammo two doors down from the bustling original location of the national Habit Burger & Grill chain. The firearms…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (289+ words) Authorities arrested a podcaster at his Los Angeles-area home Thursday morning for allegedly threatening to kill the president of the United States. First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli for the Central District of California said in a post on X, that…...