A former assistant engineer for the City of Santa Clarita pleaded no contest today to embezzling more than $533,000 and was sentenced to four years in state prison, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. David Rubira, 41, pleaded no contest to one felony count of misappropri...

LOS ANGELES– A Long Beach man was sentenced today to four years in federal prison in relation to a mortgage rescue scheme that brought in nearly $3 million from fees from distressed homeowners. Karl Robinson, 52, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Manuel L. Real, who also ordere...

LOS ANGELES– Two former deputies with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department were ordered today to serve time in federal prison for violating the civil rights of a mentally ill jail inmate who was beaten, kicked and pepper sprayed after showing disrespect to a jail employee at the Twin Towers Corr...