The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday it has opened compliance review investigations into admissions policies at UCLA and UC Irvine to determine if the universities were using diversity, ...

Federal prosecutors plan to argue for eight months behind bars for former Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu when he is sentenced Friday for obstruction of justice, wire fraud and lying to federal ...

A 19-year-old man who was shot and found unresponsive following a crash in Pasadena was identified Thursday. Officers responding about 6:15 p.m. Wednesday to the scene of the crash in the 700 block of ...

Two women accused of targeting a Rancho Mirage man in a six-figure immigration-driven extortion scam both pleaded not guilty Thursday to felony charges. Bertha Verduzco Gasso, 67, and Ilvia Yvette ...

State Auditor Grant Parks Thursday issued a review of Anaheim’s lease with the Angels for Angel Stadium, criticizing a lack of access for inspections and its revenue-sharing terms, which compare ...

A Southland music executive and his company were found guilty Thursday of conspiring to do business with a Guadalajara-based concert promoter with ties to Mexican drug cartels. Angel Del Villar, 44, ...

An eighth-grade student suffered what appears to have been a self-inflicted fatal gunshot wound in Irvine Thursday and police were investigating the events that led to the shooting. The victim, whose ...

About a dozen environmental activists gathered outside the Dodgers’ home opener Thursday, demanding owner and chairman Mark Walter end the team’s sponsorship deal with indicted oil giant Phillips 66, ...

Criminal charges have been filed against the owner of a business in the MacArthur Park area, where more than $350,000 in alleged stolen merchandise was seized earlier this month, the Los Angeles ...

A week from Thursday, a Lake Elsinore Unified School District janitor accused of molesting a child and possessing child pornography will ask a judge to consider reducing his $500,000 bail so he can ...

A 27-year-old woman pleaded guilty Thursday to attacking her girlfriend in Fullerton and was immediately sentenced to a year in jail. Veronica Dawn Lawson pleaded guilty to domestic battery causing ...