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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Five years after California’s worst modern maritime disaster, relatives of the Conception boat fire victims are angry about what they call the slow pace of accountability, while a top U.S. safety official says the Coast Guard continues to stall on
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A Los Angeles superior court judge rejected a defense effort on Friday to dismiss a manslaughter indictment against two former Torrance police officers in the 2018 shooting death of a young Black man sitting in a suspected stolen car with
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A physician charged with conspiring to distribute ketamine in the wake of Matthew Perry’s death is still seeing patients at the urgent care facility he operates in Calabasas. Now facing felony charges, Dr. Salvador Plasencia is forbidden by the Drug
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