The top commander of the Los Angeles Police Department’s juvenile detectives faced tough questioning from L.A. County commissioners Monday, a day after revelations that thousands of cases of serious child abuse in the city were not investigated over roughly the past year-and-a-half. Capt. Paul Espinosa, chief of the LAPD’s Juvenile Division, said his staff would…
A man who gunned down a man in Garden Grove and injured a 16-year-old during a separate shooting in Santa Ana was convicted Monday of murder. An Orange County Superior Court jury also found Richard Adrian Trevino, 44, guilty of attempted murder and assault with a semi-automatic firearm, among other charges, for a pair of…
SANTA ANA — An Aliso Viejo man was sentenced Monday to nearly five years in federal prison for running over a U.S. Customs and Border Protection employee at the Federal Building in Laguna Niguel three years ago, leaving the victim with permanent injuries. Geoffrey Donald Rickner, 48, pleaded guilty in May to driving his Mercedes-Benz…
Hodge reversed course late last week after prosecutors warned parents who had so far maintained their innocence that they could be charged with committing federal program bribery as soon as this week, people familiar with the negotiations said.
A person was found dead aboard a boat that caught fire while docked at the Port of Los Angeles at Terminal Island early Monday, fire officials said.
Some Bay Area activists are taking their wealth and are spending it on housing — for others. Rebelling against real estate speculation, they are building homes that will be kept affordable in perpetuity.
One way to get quick action on California’s power shutoff rules would be a special session of the Legislature. But it’s Gov. Newsom’s call.
Los Angeles’s barbershops are a window into multicultural worlds
In June 2018, LAPD officers ordered the residents of an illegally converted South L.A. church building to evacuate. The conditions there were far from unique amid L.A. County’s housing crisis.
Gunfire in Huntington Beach sent one person to a hospital on Sunday, Oct. 20. A passerby spotted the injured victim, who was responsive and outside of a vehicle in a parking lot near the intersection of Warner Avenue and Magnolia Street, and called authorities, Huntington Beach Police Lt. Ryan Reilly said. Responding officers to the…
