Man who met teen through ‘furry’ subculture convicted in her parents’ deaths
Frank Sato Felix and a friend plotted to take a 17-year-old girl from her Fullerton home, and killed her parents and a family friend.
Bell Gardens priest supported political candidates, apparently violating federal law: ‘I won’t stop’
Father Nabor Rios of the St. Gertrude the Great Catholic Church told worshipers to vote for a candidate during a Mass in late October, a violation of a longstanding federal law that prohibits religious and nonprofits from campaigning for or against a candidate.
Plane crashes upside down in Sherman Oaks. Passengers exit unharmed
The pilot and passenger of the Cessna aircraft got out before firefighters arrived and declined to be taken to a hospital.
Editorial: L.A. County voters agreed to another tax to reduce homelessness. Let’s make sure it does
Los Angeles County voters’ approval of Measure A is expected to provide about $1 billion a year to support and house homeless people through a 0.5% sales tax.
Los Angeles set to build facility to transform wastewater into clean drinking water
Los Angeles is set to build a facility in the San Fernando Valley that will transform wastewater into enough pure drinking water for about 250,000 people.
LAPD ‘SWAT mafia’ trial set to begin; elite unit’s leaders said to ‘glamorize’ killings
A former LAPD sergeant has sued the city of Los Angeles, alleging he faced retaliation after calling out senior members of the department’s SWAT unit over a culture of violence, secrecy and cover-ups.
Moreno Valley Unified teacher’s fate uncertain following anti-Trump rant in classroom
The school district placed the teacher on leave after a profanity-filled anti-Trump lecture he gave to his history students. Some students have pushed back.
Mystery around missing ‘Gossip Girl’ actor deepens, with family, LAPD at odds
Depending on whom you ask, Chanel Maya Banks is either a missing person who may be in danger or hurt, or she has been located and is safe.
Editorial: Voters just passed L.A. County’s most important government reform in decades
Measure G didn’t grab as much attention as others, but the wonky reform package could help Los Angeles County make progress on its jail, homelessness and more.
Rather than pay a debt, he carried out a vicious, convoluted double-murder plot, prosecutors say
A Glendale man owed a couple $80,000, so he shot the husband, kidnapped and killed the wife, and burned the bodies in different deserts, prosecutors allege.