13+ hour, 24+ min ago   (377+ words) Los Angeles police corralled and arrested scores of minibike riders on Sunday, thwarting a takeover of 6th Street Bridge, police said. Officers encountered a group of more than 70 young people — many of them minors — operating unauthorized motorized minibikes while blocking the…...

15+ hour, 12+ min ago   (265+ words) A high-speed car crash in Irvine claimed two lives on Sunday morning, including a person affiliated with a well-known Orange County car show that hosts thousands of vehicles in San Clemente each week, according to police and social media posts....

18+ hour, 15+ min ago   (501+ words) JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi police have arrested a man in the death of Tasia Fortune, a Black woman found hanging from a tree last month. Jackson Police Chief RaShall Brackney said at a news conference Friday that police had secured search…...

1+ day, 5+ hour 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…...

1+ day, 5+ hour 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…...

1+ day, 17+ hour 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…...

2+ day, 14+ 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…...

2+ day, 15+ 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…...

3+ day, 13+ 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…...

3+ day, 16+ 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…...