Having worked in care homes for well over a decade and rising to become a hospice manager, I have seen the best and the worst of care for older adults. Our seniors rely on us to look after them in their times of need, but some people fail them. And the worst, abuse. It is important, when visiting...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price, M.D., announced today the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, involving 412 charged defendants across 41 federal districts, including 115 doctors...

Two men have been sentenced to prison for trafficking an underage girl in 2015, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. At today's court appearance, Michael Barnes (dob 5/1/82) and Jamelvin Moore (dob 12/24/84) each pleaded no contest to one felony count of human trafficking ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man who was extradited to Orange County from Mexico was sentenced today to 35 years to life in state prison for murdering a 19-year-old woman in 1992. Defendant Charges Sentence Leonardo Pimentel Sanchez, 59, Mexico City, Mexico Found guilty by...

A 41-year-old man was convicted today of fatally shooting his friend in the head before eluding police for months, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. The jury deliberated for a little over two hours before finding Juan Carlos Perez (dob 4/4/76) of Los Angeles guilty of f...

Two men were sentenced today to life in state prison without the possibility of parole for killing a Hong Kong resident during an organized robbery, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. On July 10, a jury found Michael Quiroga Castiblanco (dob 5/27/92) and Juan Alejandro C...

LOS ANGELES – A member of the Five Deuce Broadway Gangster Crips (BGC) – who was found guilty by a jury last year of conspiring to engage in racketeering activities, which included him selling crack cocaine on Skid Row – has been sentenced to 360 months in federal prison. Tony Gordon, also know...

LOS ANGELES – A former director of South Korea's Earthquake Research Center at the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM) has been found guilty of using a Southern California bank account to launder bribes he received from two seismological companies, including one based in ...

LOS ANGELES – Federal authorities on Monday and Tuesday arrested three defendants charged with participating in a tax fraud scheme that used stolen identities to file at least 527 fraudulent federal income tax returns claiming more than $1.9 million in fraudulent tax refunds with the Internal Re...

A man who operates an alcohol live-in program has been charged with the death of a man who was under the rehab's care last year, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Jason Aviles (dob 3/20/91) of Long Beach faces one count of murder in case BA458474. Aviles is scheduled to...