LOS ANGELES – The lead defendant in a federal hate crimes indictment has pleaded guilty to five charges and admitted he organized a group of street gang members who firebombed African-American residences inside the Ramona Gardens Housing Development in Boyle Heights “in order to force the African...

            LOS ANGELES – A woman was sentenced today to 54 months in federal prison for defrauding the state's unemployment insurance program out of more than one-half million dollars by using stolen identities to submit dozens of bogus claims for “employees” who supposedly worked at sham compan...