A state parole panel has blocked the release of former LAPD Det. Stephanie Lazarus, reversing an earlier decision that could have freed her from a life sentence for the 1986 murder of her ex-boyfriend’s wife. The three-member panel found good […]
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One of two doctors charged with supplying ketamine to Matthew Perry pleaded guilty Wednesday to illegally distributing the surgical anesthetic. Dr. Mark Chavez is among three defendants who signed a plea deal and are facing lesser charges in Perry’s death,
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For decades, Sean “Diddy” Combs promoted himself as one of the godfathers of hip-hop, a celebrity who transformed the genre and became a business estimated to top a billion dollars. But this status is now taking on different meaning now
A woman has sued Sean “Diddy” Combs in New York federal court, alleging he and his bodyguard drugged, bound and violently raped her decades ago then later showed video of the attack to others. The lawsuit was filed by attorney
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A man who prosecutors say was with two other gang members at the time they killed actor Johnny Wactor has pleaded guilty to attempted robbery and grand theft charges. Leonel Gutierrez, 18, was arrested last month along with two other
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The Los Angeles Unified School District board has agreed to pay $24 million to three former students to settle claims that they were sexually abused by their Langdon Avenue Elementary School teacher on multiple occasions in his classroom during school
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Jurors took little more than an hour on Tuesday to convict a man of murder in the stabbing death of UCLA graduate student Brianna Kupfer as she worked in a Hancock Park boutique furniture store. Shawn Laval Smith, a 34-year-old
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Los Angeles County prosecutors charged actor Gabriel Olds with five additional counts of sexual assault Monday, bringing the total number of charges against him to 12 after three more women came forward following media coverage of his initial arrest, officials
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A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy charged with murder after killing a 12-year-old boy in a high-speed crash while off duty has pleaded no contest to vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence. Ricardo Castro, 30, was at the wheel of his
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Warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of sexual abuse. Federal prosecutors on Wednesday announced a civil rights investigation into sexual abuse of women behind bars in two California prisons, citing numerous reports of groping, inappropriate touching and rape by correctional
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