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Lawyers for a Black teenager stabbed outside a Los Angeles high school filed a government claim Friday against the school alleging it failed to protect the boy from violent racist attacks.
Tom Girardi, the former high-powered Los Angeles attorney convicted of stealing at least $15 million from his clients, is seeking placement in a medical facility rather than prison to serve out his sentence.
A Southern California campaign manager was arrested by the FBI Thursday and charged with acting as an illegal agent of a foreign power for allegedly acting on behalf of the China government to influence U.S. politics, according to federal prosecutors.
Former "That '70s Show" actor Danny Masterson, who is serving a sentence of 30 years to life in prison, is seeking to overturn his conviction for the rape of two women, with his attorneys arguing he did not receive a fair trial.
A Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputy has agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge for assaulting a 23-year-old transgender man, body-slamming the victim who had flipped him off just before, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Hundreds of people marched through the streets of downtown Los Angeles Wednesday to mark International Migrants Day, sharing messages of hope, solidarity and resistance to the incoming presidential administration's promises of a mass deportations.
Los Angeles County is suing the owners and operators of the Chiquita Canyon Landfill in Castaic, alleging the site has released hazardous gases hurting the health of local residents who have complained of headaches, difficulty breathing and heart problems.
A Christian Bible college based in Southern California has been ordered to cease operations after state inspections discovered empty classrooms, an inadequate handling of records and courses being taught via live-stream at its campuses.
A Hong Kong man pleaded guilty Friday to trafficking eastern box turtles from Southern California to China after wildlife inspectors discovered the endangered animals inside packages at a Torrance mail facility.
Following the arrest of a slain Woodland Hills doctor's ex-wife, prosecutors announced criminal charges Friday against three other people tied to the killing police have described as an ambush-style, targeted hit.
Los Angeles Police Department officers responded to a home Thursday linked to a Woodland Hills doctor who was shot to death outside his practice earlier this year, authorities said.
A federal judge ordered a Long Beach man to pay more than $2.6 million in restitution and sentenced him to six years and eight months in prison Thursday for a smash-and-grab robbery in Beverly Hills.
A family-owned tire shop in the Vermont-Slauson neighborhood of South Los Angeles went up in flames early Thursday following at least two other fires authorities have investigated as suspected arsons.
About $215 million in assets stemming from profits made by Backpage.com — the website shuttered by federal authorities for sex work ads which included depictions of children — will be forfeited to the U.S. government as part of a settlement in the case.
Hannah Kobayashi, the Hawaii woman whose disappearance in Los Angeles launched a desperate search by family and friends, has been found safe in Los Angeles about a month after she voluntarily went missing, her family's attorney said Wednesday.