Supervisors, DA Hochman Celebrate Progress Pride Flag Raising

Los Angeles County will mark the beginning of Pride Month with a couple of flag raising ceremonies Tuesday. The county LGBTQ+ Commission, joined by the Board of Supervisors and District Attorney Nathan Hochman, will host a ceremonial raising of the Progress Pride Flag at the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration in downtown Los Angeles at […]

Community, Law Enforcement Mourn Loss of Baldwin Park Deputy

A memorial of flowers, pictures and other mementos was growing Monday outside the Baldwin Park Police Department in honor of an officer who was fatally shot during a gun battle that left a second officer wounded and another man dead. The shooting suspect, who was also struck by gunfire Saturday, was taken to a hospital […]

Hotel, Airport Workers to Launch ‘Olympic Wage’ Campaign

Hotel and airport workers are expected to rally at Los Angeles City Hall Tuesday to announce a campaign in defense of a recently approved minimum wage increase, and also to oppose a petition that aims to overturn those regulations. Members of the Tourism Workers Rising Coalition, which lobbied for the minimum wage increase, will host […]

Mayor Bass Faces Friday Deadline for Revised Budget

The Los Angeles City Council Monday was awaiting a response from Mayor Karen Bass on its revised $14 billion spending plan for fiscal year 2025-26, with the mayor facing a Friday deadline to make a decision. Facing a roughly $1 billion deficit in the upcoming fiscal year, elected officials are on the verge of finalizing […]

LA, SD Water Districts Settle Water Exchange Dispute

The Los Angeles-based Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and the San Diego County Water Authority announced Monday they have settled a legal dispute spanning 15 years over the exchange of Colorado River water. The agreement ends the long-standing litigation over fluctuating prices Metropolitan charged to the Water Authority to deliver water that the Water […]

LA Deputy Sentenced Four Months for Excessive Force

A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy whose original felony conviction for assaulting and pepper-spraying a suspect was reduced to a misdemeanor by a federal judge was sentenced Monday to four months behind bars. U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson last week granted in part the government’s motion to dismiss the allegations in Trevor Kirk’s indictment […]

Judge Resolves for Tom Girardi to Serve Sentence in Prison

A federal judge in downtown Los Angeles said Monday she will sentence disgraced former legal heavyweight Tom Girardi — who was convicted of ripping off $15 million from injured clients in a long-running Ponzi scheme — to prison Tuesday rather than a treatment center for his age-related dementia. During a nearly three-hour hearing, U.S. District […]

Authorities Search Castaic Lake for Missing Paddle Boarder

Sheriff’s detectives were searching Monday for a 61-year-old man who went missing while paddle boarding in Castaic Lake. Espiridion Philip (“Speedy”) Camez was last seen at 12:30 p.m. Sunday while paddleboarding with a woman at the lake in the 32000 block of Castaic Lake Drive, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Both Camez […]

Compton Murder Suspect Remains At-Large

Authorities sought the public’s assistance Monday in locating a 55-year-old man suspected of murder in Compton. Homicide detectives responded to the 100 block of Poinsettia Avenue on May 9 following the death of a victim, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Investigators identified the suspect as Darney Harris, who they said frequents Buena […]

Inmate Allegedly Shivs Two Officers at Lancaster Prison

An 42-year-old inmate doing time for number of felonies used an improvised weapon to attack two corrections officers at a California state prison in Lancaster, authorities said Monday. The attack began at about 7:40 a.m. Sunday at California State Prison, Los Angeles County at 44750 60th St. W, when inmate Michael P. O’Neill began stabbing […]

Trial Begins for 45-Year-Old Accused of Murdering Mom, Brother

A 45-year-old man struggling with a “long battle with mental illness” gunned down his mother and brother in their family home in Irvine “to save them,” his defense attorney Monday told an Orange County Superior Court judge who is weighing the defendant’s guilt and insanity plea. Nolan Pascal Pillay is charged with two counts of […]