29+ min ago   (1695+ words) California prison towns made a grim bargain decades ago. They built their economies around an industry that relied on an ever-growing prison population, mostly from California’s major metropolitan areas. Then, about 15 years ago, legislators changed sentencing laws in ways that…...

12+ hour, 3+ min ago   (534+ words) PHOENIX — A judge who ruled 13 years ago that Latinos were racially profiled in then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration crackdown in Arizona has rejected a bid to end the court’s supervision of the Sheriff’s Office. Maricopa County failed to show that the…...

14+ hour, 34+ min ago   (1091+ words) The U.S. Justice Department failed to secure felony convictions against most of the 102 protesters arrested in Los Angeles and three other major cities last year on charges of assaulting federal authorities — a record far below the norm in federal assault prosecutions....

13+ hour, 19+ min ago   (340+ words) A trespasser tried to enter former Vice President Kamala Harris’ cliffside home in Malibu on Friday evening, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and a Harris spokesman. Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, were not home at the…...

22+ hour, 29+ min ago   (444+ words) Two young people riding in an autonomous vehicle were arrested in San Francisco after authorities allegedly found them in possession of an illegal “ghost gun.” San Francisco Police Department did not identify the operator of the autonomous vehicle, but a…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (772+ words) A federal jury acquitted Grammy-winning rapper Lil Durk in a murder-for-hire trial that has drawn celebrities, fans and content creators to a downtown Los Angeles courthouse. The Chicago rapper, whose given name is Durk Banks, was found not guilty found…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (517+ words) Federal authorities probing the death of actress Hayden Panettiere are focusing on where the drugs and medications that played a role in her death came from, echoing similar probes that resulted in charges for suppliers in the deaths of Matthew…...

2+ day, 8+ 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…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (202+ words) A man was arrested this week near Kris Jenner’s home in Calabasas on suspicion of stalking. It wasn’t the reality TV star’s first brush with the alleged stalker. Officers with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on Monday arrested the…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (450+ words) The estranged wife of former Chargers defensive end Marcellus Wiley has been granted a three-year restraining order against the former Los Angeles sports radio personality two months after she accused him of raping her and physically abusing her and their…...