Eighteen counties, including Riverside and Los Angeles, have reached a $9 million settlement with a debt-collection company that requires it to change its calling practices. Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin, in a news release Wednesday, Oct. 31, announced that his office will receive $1.6 million in penalties and $150,000 for its costs. The lawsuit was…
A veteran federal agent who spent years undercover after infiltrating the notorious Mongols Motorcycle Club offered his first-hand account Thursday of a secretive culture of violence and intimidation during testimony in an ongoing federal racketeering trial. The three years that Darrin Kozlowski and three other U.S. Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Officers spent embedded in the…
A federal grand jury on Thursday charged four Southern California men accused of belonging to a white supremacist street gang that caused violence at political rallies across the state with conspiracy and rioting. The members of the Rise Above Movement were accused in the indictment of traveling to the rallies with the specific purpose of…
Human trafficking experts will discuss the role men – specifically fathers – can take in preventing human trafficking at the inaugural Father Con, a daylong educational event at Long Beach City College on Saturday, Nov. 3. Father Con founder Patrick Erlandson, an advocate to prevent human trafficking, said the event aims to educate attendees on what…
Attorneys for the family of a 36-year-old man fatally wounded by a Los Angeles police officer in 2016 said that body camera footage released as part of an ongoing lawsuit against the city shows that the man did not pose a threat when he was shot and that evidence was mishandled. The video, played…
The California bullet train project can continue to draw on a bond approved by voters in 2008 after a Superior Court judge on Thursday rejected a civil suit that sought to block the use of those funds. The decision was crucial for the project. Though only 12% of the project’s cost estimate, the…
Rep. Steve Knight’s campaign on Thursday took down an advertisement featuring a local veteran who regularly posts racist, anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic comments on social media, a day after the congressman’s camp said it would not remove the political spot. The ad was no longer displayed on the…
From the time President Trump stepped onto the campaign trail more than two years ago he’s pointed to three high-profile California slaying cases to highlight the dangers of what he contends is the country’s broken immigration system. Like his invocation of the gang MS-13 and focus on the migrant…
By MARYCLAIRE DALE PITTSBURGH — The anti-Semitic truck driver accused of gunning down 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue pleaded not guilty on Thursday to federal charges that could put him on death row. Robert Bowers, 46, was arraigned one day after a grand jury issued a 44-count indictment that charges him with murder, hate…
The city hopes to have a new eagle statue at Yorba Linda Veterans Memorial Park take flight by Veterans Day. An eucalyptus tree branch fell in the park in December, bending the statue and damaging a granite bench. The Yorba Linda City Council in August approved allocating more than $120,000 to repair the damage. Most…
