A former high school and college football player was sentenced today to four years behind bars in connection with a man's beating death during a brawl outside a Hollywood nightclub after a birthday celebration. ... read more »

Legislation that would streamline the state environmental review process for the proposed Los Angeles Clippers arena in Inglewood is on its way to Gov. Jerry Brown's desk after winning unanimous approval from the state Senate and passing in the Assembly, 68-4. ... read more »

The three-justice panel from California's 2nd District Court of Appeal ordered the case against Derrick Williams to be sent back to the trial court so that he may either be re-sentenced for second-degree murder or for the prosecution to opt to retry him for first-degree murder for the Dec. 25, 2010, killing of 25-year-old Kashmier James. ... read more »

The Los Angeles Superior Court jury reached the verdict after about two days of deliberations in 56-year-old Rickey Moland's lawsuit against McWane Inc., which does business in its Corona facility as Clow Valve Co. ... read more »

The City Attorney's Office Wednesday sued the owners of a South Los Angeles apartment building, alleging it is a "crime hub" where LAPD cars have been vandalized with threats to kill officers and where a child jumped out of a window to avoid gunfire. ... read more »

Sherman Wendell Smith, Jr., retired judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court, passed away on September 4, following a long illness. He was 72 years old. ... read more »

A lawsuit was filed against Los Angeles Unified and Los Angeles County Friday April 29, on behalf of a 15-year-old girl who alleges a school bus driver refused to pick her up in a high-crime area in Wilmington while she was trying to get to school and that she was later found disoriented at a park. ... read more »