A Brentwood School teacher was charged today with having unlawful sex with a student earlier this year, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Aimee Palmitessa (dob 1/9/72) was charged in case SA096485 with seven counts of unlawful sexual intercourse, two counts each of sodo...

LOS ANGELES – A Hermosa Beach man was sentenced this afternoon to six years in federal prison for filing fraudulent tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service that sought millions of dollars in refunds and using bogus financial instruments in an attempt to pay off debt. His wife was also sente...

A Redondo Beach man was sentenced today to 16 years to life in state prison for the stabbing death of his girlfriend, star of the reality show “Loredana, Esq.”, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. A jury deliberated for three days before finding Robert Brian Reagan, 53, g...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A United States Marine is scheduled to be arraigned today for the shooting-murder of his estranged wife in Laguna Hills. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date Jerel Mark Boykins, 26, North Carolina Charged today with: ...

A former Los Angeles County probation officer was sentenced today after pleading guilty to inappropriately touching two girls at a youth camp, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Oscar David Calderon Jr., 33, entered his plea to two felony counts of assault under the colo...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A man is scheduled to be arraigned today for the stabbing-murder of his wife in a Santa Ana apartment. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date Mark Lewis Amacher Jr., 38, Santa Ana Charged today with: One felony count of...

Two real estate investors pleaded guilty for their role in conspiracies to rig bids at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California, the Department of Justice announced. Joseph J. Giraudo pleaded guilty to two counts of bid rigging, and Kevin B. Cullinane pleaded guilty to one ...

SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra today announced the concurrent filing of a complaint and a settlement involving allegations that The Gatorade Company violated California consumer protection laws by making misleading statements about water in a mobile videogame application ...

A man was convicted today of murdering a Palmdale gas station attendant nearly 40 years ago, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Jurors deliberated for less than a day before finding 60-year-old Neal Antoine Matthews guilty of one count of first-degree murder. The panel a...

SANTA ANA, California – A former clerk of the Orange County Superior Court was sentenced today to 135 months in federal prison for orchestrating a scheme in which he was paid approximately $420,000 dollars in bribes to “fix” criminal cases and traffic offenses on terms favorable to hundreds of d...