39+ min ago   (1016+ words) Earlier this month, as I was reporting a column about the unceremonious deportation to the U.K. of the immigrant-hating, right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, the world got word that a true political giant, Gloria Steinem, had died. Ten years ago, Yiannopoulos made…...

39+ min ago   (1695+ words) California prison towns made a grim bargain decades ago. They built their economies around an industry that relied on an ever-growing prison population, mostly from California’s major metropolitan areas. Then, about 15 years ago, legislators changed sentencing laws in ways that…...

12+ hour, 13+ min ago   (534+ words) PHOENIX — A judge who ruled 13 years ago that Latinos were racially profiled in then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration crackdown in Arizona has rejected a bid to end the court’s supervision of the Sheriff’s Office. Maricopa County failed to show that the…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (286+ words) Judy Judge is hanging up her robe. Nearly 30 years after Judy Sheindlin launched a career that made her TV’s most widely recognized judge — first on the syndicated small claims series “Judge Judy,” which premiered in 1996 and ran for 25 seasons; then…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (772+ words) A federal jury acquitted Grammy-winning rapper Lil Durk in a murder-for-hire trial that has drawn celebrities, fans and content creators to a downtown Los Angeles courthouse. The Chicago rapper, whose given name is Durk Banks, was found not guilty found…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (655+ words) A 22-year-old woman was convicted Thursday of a fatal hit-and-run collision that killed a man in Laguna Beach four years ago. Sysillia Kianna Morrison Montes De Oca was convicted of gross vehicular manslaughter, hit and run with permanent and serious…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (450+ words) The estranged wife of former Chargers defensive end Marcellus Wiley has been granted a three-year restraining order against the former Los Angeles sports radio personality two months after she accused him of raping her and physically abusing her and their…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (386+ words) An Orange County woman was arrested Thursday after it was discovered she stole more than $400,000 from a nonprofit created to support a high school football team, according to officials. Julie Hanway Molina, 56, was arrested at her Aliso Viejo home and…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (477+ words) A man accused of shooting a pregnant mother and her sister while they sat in their car outside their Canoga Park apartment is now facing murder charges, according to prosecutors. The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office said Wednesday that…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (234+ words) Once upon a time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino’s mansion was nearly burgled. Police are looking into an alleged prowler who, “clad in black,” was spotted trespassing at the Oscar-winning director’s Hollywood Hills mansion on Wednesday afternoon. According to law enforcement…...