A motorist has been charged with murdering a bicyclist near the University of Southern California last week, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Andrew Williams (dob 9/5/83) was charged in case BA440824 with one count each of murder and hitand-run resulting in death or se...

A Lancaster man has been found guilty of directing a teenage boy to perform sexual acts with a teenage family member and then joining in, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Jurors deliberated for about two hours before convicting Richard Michael Kelso, 35, yesterday of t...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A drunken driver is scheduled to be arraigned today for hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian sitting on a sidewalk. Ramon Horta, 55, Santa Ana, is charged with one felony count of murder, one felony count of driving under the influence of alcohol causing bodily injury, h...

A former defensive lineman was found guilty today of a 1999 double homicide and a 2001 murder, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. A jury deliberated for about eight days before finding Anthony Wayne Smith, 48, guilty of three counts of first-degree murder and found true ...

A Yuba City, California, man pleaded guilty today to producing child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner of the Eastern District of California, Special Agent in Charge Ryan Spradlin of...

The Department of Justice's U.S. Trustee Program has entered into a national settlement agreement with Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (Wells Fargo) requiring Wells Fargo to pay $81.6 million in remediation for its repeated failure to provide homeowners with legally required notices, thereby denying homeow...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A daughter is scheduled to face trial Monday for shooting and murdering her 96-year-old mother. Christine Marie Reynolds, 72, Rossmoor, is charged with one felony count of murder with a sentencing enhancement for the personal discharge of a firearm causing death. If convicted,...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former Disneyland employee pleaded guilty today to a court offer and was sentenced to one year in jail, five years of formal probation, and mandatory lifetime sex offender registration for attempting to sell tickets to Disneyland in exchange for sex with a minor. Darreck Mic...

A federal jury in Los Angeles convicted a Los Angeles man and owner of a medical supply company today for his role in a $4 million Medicare fraud scheme. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Eileen M. Decker of the Central Dis...

LOS ANGELES– A Downey man who falsely certified that beef being sold by his employer was free of E. coli bacteria – which later proved to be false when one beef sample was found to be contaminated with the pathogen – has pleaded guilty to a federal offense of making and using a false writing and ...