The 31-year-old son of Grammy-nominated opera singer Jubilant Sykes was in custody Tuesday, suspected of fatally stabbing his father inside his Santa Monica home. Police responded at 9:20 p.m. Monday ...

Hundreds of law enforcement officers, dignitaries, relatives and friends gathered in Porter Ranch Tuesday to say a final farewell to a 28-year-old Alhambra police officer who was killed in a crash ...

A state appeals court panel has ordered a new sentencing hearing for a man convicted of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated for a crash that killed an 18-year-old woman in West Covina. In a ...

A 22-year-old man pleaded guilty Tuesday and was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for pimping a 17-year-old runaway in Anaheim. Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputies on patrol June ...

A 64-year-old man who won a new trial on kidnapping an Anaheim bank worker to help him steal more than $167,000 ended up with the same sentence Tuesday he received before his appeal. Charles Craig ...

A former Compton City Council member pleaded guilty Tuesday to taking part in a bribery scheme to secure marijuana permits and cheating on his taxes. Isaac Galvan, 38, of Compton, pleaded guilty in ...

A Ukrainian woman is facing federal charges in Los Angeles alleging she took part in Russian state-sponsored computer breaches on U.S. companies, including a cyberattack on a Vernon meat processor ...

A year after a jury deadlocked in his first trial, a March 6 retrial date was confirmed Tuesday for a man accused of gunning down a marijuana dealer whose girlfriend and toddler were with him when he ...

A person was fatally struck by a Metrolink train Tuesday in Pacoima. Firefighters responded shortly before 4 p.m. to the 9700 block of North San Fernando Road to conduct a rescue operation, where they ...

Palm Springs City Councilwoman Naomi Soto will be sworn in as the city’s new mayor Wednesday. The City Council is scheduled to meet at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at City Hall, 3200 E. Tahquitz Canyon Way.

A man accused of sexually assaulting and pimping out a Temecula Valley girl for sexual services in Los Angeles County was charged Tuesday with human trafficking of a minor and other offenses. Nestor ...

The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner confirmed Tuesday that the death of former Sen. Mitt Romney’s sister-in-law — whose body was found at the base of a five-story parking garage at the Valencia ...