Priest jailed in 1980s rape of boy is released from prison
BRIDGEWATER, Mass. (AP) - A notorious figure in the Boston Roman Catholic priest sex abuse scandal was released from prison Friday morning after completing a 12-year sentence for the rape of a boy in...
View ArticleCouple selling phony detergent in LA hit with $1 million in fines
LOS ANGELES >> City Attorney Mike Feuer announced Friday that his office secured more than $1 million in civil penalties and a 10-year injunction against a married couple accused of selling...
View Article$10,000 reward offered in jogger sex assault in Whittier Narrows Recreation Area
SOUTH EL MONTE - A $10,000 reward was offered today for the capture of a sexual assault suspect who attacked a female jogger on a South El Monte trail in June, and sheriff's officials released...
View ArticlePower outage knocks out LAPD dispatch center, officers on tactical alert
The Los Angeles Police Department has gone on tactical alert after a power outage at one of its two dispatch centers Friday forced officials to route dispatch calls to its other communications center,...
View ArticleMonterey Park stabbing suspect arrested after two-hour standoff in East Los...
EAST LOS ANGELES >> Officials arrested a teenage Monterey Park stabbing suspect following a two-hour standoff at an East Los Angeles home on Friday, officials said.The incident began just after...
View ArticleSan Gabriel men jailed in connection with West Covina bank robbery
Police arrested two cousins from San Gabriel on Thursday in connection with a West Covina bank robbery the previous day, and were looking into the possibility the suspects were also responsible for...
View ArticleSenior citizen robbed by masked men in Pasadena
PASADENA >> Two men armed with a rifle or shotgun robbed 71-year-old Santa Barbara man as he sat in his car Thursday night, officials said.The crime was reported about 11 p.m. in the
View ArticleDozens of convictions tossed out of Southern California courts because of...
The gavels had fallen, the cases appeared closed:Marsha Kay Esswein was found guilty of stabbing to death her 82-year-old husband in Riverside County.Christopher James Lloyd was convicted in Orange...
View ArticlePhilippine mayor linked to drugs, 14 others killed in raids
ZAMBOANGA, Philippines >> Police in the southern Philippines said they fatally shot 15 people Sunday, including a city mayor who was among the politicians President Rodrigo Duterte publicly...
View ArticleWoman escapes kidnapping attempt in Pasadena
PASADENA >> A young woman escaped a would-be kidnapper who tried to drag her into his pickup truck in Pasadena on Saturday night with the help of some good Samaritans who intervened in the...
View ArticleMan struck in face with beer bottle during Pasadena quinceañera party
PASADENA >> Police are seeking a man who struck another man in the face with a beer bottle during a quincea#xf1;era celebration in Pasadena on Saturday night, authorities said.The alleged attack...
View ArticleReports: Aramazd Andressian Sr. told investigators he 'harmed' son, left him...
The South Pasadena man accused of killing his 5-year-old son may have revealed to investigators he harmed the boy and left him in Santa Barbara County, then later told them where to find the body,...
View ArticleFor felons sentenced to life terms as youths, a patchwork of justice emerges
DETROIT >> Courtroom 801 is nearly empty when guards bring in Bobby Hines in handcuffs.More than 27 years ago, Hines stood before a judge to answer for his role in killing a man over a friend's...
View ArticleMonterey Park police need your help identifying these burglary suspects
MONTEREY PARK >> Monterey Park police on Monday released security images of two young men sought for burglarizing a residence.The break-in occurred about 1:30 p.m. July 12 in the 600 block of...
View ArticleSan Marino facing surge in burglaries. Police chief, council candidates say...
With residents and local police left worried by a surge in burglaries in leafy, quiet San Marino, candidates in the city's upcoming city council elections are spending most of their time debating...
View ArticleDriver attacked and carjacked in Pasadena
PASADENA >> Four carjackers beat a driver and fled with his pickup truck Sunday night.The driver, a 48-year-old Pico Rivera man, suffered injuries to his face, mouth, forearms and upper body but...
View ArticleMonterey Park woman pleads guilty to giving mysterious butt injections that...
LOS ANGELES >> A Monterey Park woman pleaded guilty Monday to a federal charge linked to an incident in which she injected an "unknown substance" into another woman's buttocks as a cosmetic...
View ArticleAndressian of South Pasadena, father of boy found dead, to plead guilty Tuesday
Aramazd Andressian Sr., the South Pasadena man charged with killing his 5-year-old son who went missing for almost three months before he was found dead at Lake Cachuma in Santa Barbara County, is...
View ArticleAfter life without parole: 2 held for decades savor freedom
WILMINGTON, Del. >> It's just blocks from the house Earl Rice Jr. left behind as a teenager to the places he remembers. But after more than four decades in prison, he has ground to cover.He heads...
View ArticleArmed home invasion suspect found dead after City Terrace gunfight
LOS ANGELES - An armed man who burst into a residence in the City Terrace area of the county today and got into a gunfight with one of three people inside the home was later was found dead, authorities...
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