LOS ANGELES– Federal authorities have charged a total of 22 defendants with defrauding the Social Security Administration by illegally receiving cash benefits and causing a cumulative loss of $2.6 million. Most of the defendants are charged with taking Social Security benefits for relatives afte...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – An unemployed Navy deserter was convicted and sentenced today to life in state prison without the possibility of parole for the Valentine's Day shooting-murder of a woman and her live-in boyfriend after posing as a potential car buyer. Pasqual Raul Loera, 38, Redlands, pleaded...

LOS ANGELES– A man who resided in Carpinteria has pleaded not guilty after being named in a federal grand jury indictment that charges him with producing, receiving, distributing and possessing child pornography in 2015 – crimes he allegedly committed soon after completing a state prison term as...