Update: LOS ANGELES – A Pico-Union resident was indicted today on federal drug trafficking charges for allegedly trying to smuggle at least one kilogram of heroin on a plane leaving Los Angeles International Airport. The heroin was wrapped in Christmas paper and concealed in checked luggage on a...

A 57-year-old man was convicted today of sexually abusing a teenager over a span of seven months in 2015, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. At today's court appearance, Joseph Alan Kikuchi of Monterey Park pleaded no contest to all counts in case GA097357 in an open ple...

Volkswagen AG (VW) has agreed to plead guilty to three criminal felony counts and pay a $2.8 billion criminal penalty as a result of the company's long-running scheme to sell approximately 590,000 diesel vehicles in the U.S. by using a defeat device to cheat on emissions tests mandated by the Env...