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Curren Price ordered by a second L.A. County Superior Court Judge to stand trial on 12 public corruption felonies
For the second time this year, sitting Los Angeles City Councilmember Curren Price has been ordered by a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge to stand trial on 12 felony public corruption charges including embezzlement of public funds, perjury and financial conflicts of interest. “Just as L.A. Councilmember Curren Price cannot wall himself off from his ethical and legal obligations, he cannot wall himself off from the fact that he is going to face trial,” Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman said.
Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office
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Disclosing existence of sex-related videos is unprotected
The Court of Appeal for this district has held that although there was public interest in the private lives of three cast members of a reality television show on Bravo, that did not render applicable the “catchall” provision of the anti-SLAPP statute in a case where the defendant disclosed the existence of sexually explicit videos of a co-star on that program. That provision is Code of Civil Procedure §425.16(e)(4) which declares to be protected “speech in connection with a public issue or an issue of public interest.”
Metropolitan News-Enterprise
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Waymo denied stay of injunction pending appeal of overnight operations ban
A judge has denied a request by Waymo LLC to stay the enforcement of a recent issuance of a ban pending trial of overnight recharging operations at two Santa Monica lots until after the company's appeal is ruled upon. On Friday, Santa Monica Superior Court Judge Bradley S. Phillips said the Waymo attorneys' stay request relied primarily on a company marketing employee whose declaration appeared to be hearsay.
City News Service
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California Supreme Court orders district attorney to answer crime victims who claim he failed them
For sixteen years, one line has been repeated at nearly every major press conference in the county. A defendant is sentenced. Cameras gather outside the courthouse. A prosecutor steps to the microphones, thanks the victims for their courage, and promises they’ll always come first. Say it enough times, and it starts to sound like fact instead of a claim. Step away from the podium, and the record tells a messier story. The prosecutor is Jeffrey Francis Rosen, who has run the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office since 2010. Longer than many of the county’s crime victims have been alive.
Vanguard
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After more than a million hearings without a transcript, California high court allows recording
The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that electronic recording is allowed in civil cases when the court cannot provide a reporter to make a transcript and parties can’t afford to hire one, finding that a record of such hearings was “presupposed under California law.” For the poorest parties in state courts, “this means the difference between having reasonable access to our judicial system and having second-class status,” said Sonya Winner, who argued the case before the justices earlier this year.
Los Angeles Times
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Level of care for gunshot victim is not clearly established
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Friday that a District Court judge erred in denying qualified immunity to an officer accused of violating a decedent’s constitutional rights by not seeking additional medical care after the paramedics arrived to offer treatment to a dying man who was purportedly shot in the back by another member of the law enforcement community.
Metropolitan News-Enterprise
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LA model and influencer accused of stealing from dates denied mental health diversion
A judge on Monday denied a request for a mental health diversion for model and influencer Adva Lavie, also known as Mia Ventura, leaving her jailed without bond as she faces multiple theft related charges. Lavie's legal team argued she needs treatment for psychiatric disorders, not incarceration. But the judge rejected the request, clearing the way for prosecutors to continue pursuing a case that includes allegations detailed in roughly 400 pages of court documents newly obtained by 7 On Your Side Investigates.
ABC7 Eyewitness News
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California sued over policy that could free serial killers as Laci Peterson's friend sounds alarm
The family and friends of Laci Peterson are among the advocates of California murder victims opposing a new parole board policy that would open a path to recommend resentencing or clemency for serial killers, mass shooters and other convicts serving sentences of life without parole when it goes into effect later this year. "We're talking about people that would have been qualified for the death penalty, OK? So they are the worst of the worst," said Anne Marie Schubert, a former Sacramento District Attorney who is now the president and CEO of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation (CJLF), a nonpartisan, nonprofit group that filed a lawsuit over the new policy.
FOX News
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US court rules Meta, other tech firms must face thousands of lawsuits over social media addiction
A U.S. appeals court on Monday allowed thousands of lawsuits to move forward against Meta Platforms, Alphabet's Google, ByteDance's TikTok and Snap Inc's Snapchat over claims they designed their products to be addictive to young users. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an appeal by Meta and TikTok seeking to overturn a lower court ruling requiring them to face more than 3,000 lawsuits filed in federal court, saying the companies had appealed too early.
Reuters
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Law grads reach settlement in class action over botched California bar exam
A testing company involved in California’s bungled February 2025 bar exam has reached a preliminary class action settlement with test takers who sued, according to a federal court filing on Monday. Attorneys for the seven plaintiffs did not disclose the terms of the proposed settlement but said they would file them with the court by September 11. Attorneys for both sides did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Monday, nor did a spokesperson for defendant Meazure Learning, also known as ProctorU.
Reuters
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Trump administration lets key gun law lapse following court ruling
The Justice Department let longstanding restrictions on owning short-barreled guns and suppressors lapse on Thursday, bowing to pressure from Republicans and gun advocates. Judge James Wesley Hendrix of the Northern District of Texas had said that his order striking down the mandated permitting process under the National Firearms Act as unconstitutional would go into effect Thursday unless the Justice Department appealed.
New York Times
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Trump admin attempt to defund LA Homeless Services Authority blocked
A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s move to defund the LA Homeless Services Authority, the beleaguered joint powers authority plagued by accusations of fraud and financial mismanagement. “LAHSA may be dysfunctional,” U.S. District Judge David Carter wrote in his ruling granting a preliminary injunction. “But thousands of unhoused individuals rely on these services.
Courthouse News Service
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DOJ's top prosecutor in LA hires law enforcement liaison with pending battery charge, string of DUIs
The new liaison to local law enforcement for the top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles is facing state criminal charges himself, and has a string of prior convictions for driving under the influence, public records show. Shawn Christopher Lewis, who previously served as First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli's chief of staff when he was a California assemblyman, was hired by and now works for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California as a community resource specialist, a spokesperson for Essayli's office confirmed.
CBS News
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Man accused of sexually assaulting woman after L.A. gym visit charged
A man accused of following a woman from a Los Angeles gym and sexually assaulting her has been charged with a felony, prosecutors announced. Rodrigo Melgar, 27, of Woodland Hills, was charged with one felony count of sexual penetration by use of force in connection with the July 19 attack in North Hollywood, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
KTLA5 Los Angeles
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City Atty loses bid to criminalize man punched during traffic stop; diversion agreement paves way for civil proceedings against city, LAPD to resume
Last month, lawyers for the City of L.A. and Alexander Donta Mitchell - the man who LAPD officer Joshua Sportiello pulled out of his car, searched, handcuffed, punched in the face, hogtied, and arrested for being double parked on a quiet side street in Watts in July of 2024 - reached an agreement regarding misdemeanor charges that Mitchell had resisted, obstructed, and/or delayed a police officer and/or emergency medical technician: diversion to anger management training, community labor, and two years’ probation.
STREETSBLOG LA
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Nick Reiner indicted on murder charges in killings of parents Rob and Michele at their Los Angeles home
Nick Reiner has been indicted on murder charges in the killings of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, inside their Brentwood home last year. On Wednesday, Nick Reiner pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder with the special circumstance allegations of multiple murders and murder by means of lying in wait, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said. He also faces a special allegation that he personally used a dangerous and deadly weapon, a knife.
CBS News
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Ex-LAPD detective released from prison faces new charges in Ventura County
A former Los Angeles Police Department detective imprisoned in the 1990s for a robbery and sexual assault in the San Fernando Valley has been charged in a new criminal case in Ventura County. Investigators there accused Michael Brambles in an attack on a woman during a holdup more than 30 years ago. At that time, the case did not go to trial, but Brambles was arrested this week and charged with kidnapping for robbery in connection with the 1994 attack inside a gift store in Thousand Oaks.
NBC4 Los Angeles
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South Central LA "Clear the Streets" campaign tackles abandoned cars
Los Angeles City Councilmember Curren Price announced a new targeted effort to clear abandoned and inoperable vehicles from the streets of South LA to improve safety and the quality of life for community members.The "Clear the Streets, Reclaim Our Neighborhoods" campaign will target vehicles that have been abandoned for 72 hours, starting with a citation, then impounding.
CBS News
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President Trump signs new birthright citizenship and “birth tourism” orders
On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced “that he is once more trying to limit the number of people who are born in the country who can become American citizens, in a sign that even after his first attempt at limiting birthright citizenship was rejected by the Supreme Court, he’s ready to try again,” according to the Associated Press. “The president said he was signing two executive actions on immigration, including one limiting the number of people eligible for U.S. citizenship after being born in the United States, while another focused on stopping people from coming to the U.S. to give birth.”
SCOTUSblog
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Bass’ Inside Safe teams went to these places again and again. But so did the homeless
Since taking office, Bass has made the removal of street encampments a top priority, arguing that they are unsafe both for unhoused residents and for the neighbors. She said early on that Angelenos will not view her work as a success until their communities are free of tents. Inside Safe, her signature homeless program, has moved more than 6,200 people into hotels, motels and other interim housing. But by June 30, 43% of them were back on the street, with some getting kicked out and others walking away.
Los Angeles Times
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Simi police spent $60K to guard family of teen convicted of hate crime
The Simi Valley Police Department spent more than $60,000 on a month-long security detail, primarily for an officer and his family after his teenage son committed a hate crime last year, according to records recently obtained by The Star. On Aug. 1, 2025, the then-16-year-old son of Sgt. Gene Colato was involved in a racially charged attack on a young Black man outside a Simi Valley movie theater. Videos of the chaotic fight began circulating on social media within hours, with many users identifying one of the five perpetrators as the son of the officer.
Ventura County Star
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California bill would ensure juvenile offenders in less restrictive programs have adequate care
Sending juvenile offenders to community programs meant to keep them housed, fed and otherwise integrated back into society is great in theory, said Sen. Bob Archuleta. But he wants to make sure such programs are, in practice, working and serving California’s young people. So Archuleta, a Democrat who represents Brea and Placentia in the statehouse, is pushing a bill that would require judges to take into consideration whether “less restrictive programs” have certain programming expectations and safety frameworks before a young person is sent there.
Orange County Register
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'Don't Flock Me': California, U.S. lawmakers debate license plate reader technology
In the past year alone, they've helped catch suspected murderers, bank robbers and hit-and-run drivers. They've located dozens of stolen cars and helped send a wildland arsonist to prison. They're also distrusted and despised by privacy rights activists on the left and on the right. Just last month, police accused a suspect in Monterey County of yanking down three of them with his pickup.
CalMatters
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DOJ: Hundreds of SoCal non-citizen criminals moved from state to fed custody
Hundreds of criminal non-citizens have been transferred from jails into federal custody in the Los Angeles area, the Inland Empire and elsewhere as part of Operation Guardian Angel, an effort federal officials said Wednesday is aimed at neutralizing California’s sanctuary state law. Operation Guardian Angel’s goal is to take custody of inmates who are in the country illegally and being held in county jails, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
mynewsLA.com
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Mayor urges Los Angeles Police Department to end Flock Safety contract
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass weighed in on a possible contract between Flock Safety and the Los Angeles Police Department. “Flock Safety has lost the trust of Angelenos and residents of other cities across the country, especially in immigrant communities targeted by the federal administration,” Bass said in a statement Thursday. “The LAPD needs to identify another company that doesn’t share data.”
Washington Post
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A SoCal city is seeking guardrails against foreign influence. Here’s why it matters.
The moment is still freshly singed into Arcadia Mayor Paul P. Cheng‘s memory: A top elected official of his city pleaded guilty to a federal felony count of acting as an unregistered illegal agent for the People’s Republic of China. Former Mayor Eileen Wang‘s May plea was a seismic jolt for the small foothill city that Cheng now leads, where he, among many, tout their pride in being American while celebrating the city’s majority Asian demographic. It’s a fusion that has shaped the city’s culture and leadership.
Los Angeles Daily News
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A wave of emergencies is testing East LA’s resilience. The way its governed doesn’t help
More than a month after the Lineage Logistics warehouse fire in Los Angeles released pollutants and the persistent smell of rotten meat into the air, the people of Boyle Heights are still waiting for cleanup and answers. I watched this disaster unfold on streets I have known my whole life. I know what it means to have a business in this community and what losing it, even temporarily, costs.
CalMatters
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Frank Lizarraga was consistently late in paying county leases, but still got sweetheart deals
An Inland Empire attorney targeted in the FBI raids last month in Southern California received sweetheart land deals from the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors, even after falling nearly $40,000 behind in rent payments. Records show that county supervisors gave Frank Lizarraga a lucrative extension on the sublease for El Prado Golf Course in Chino in 2025 - despite his repeated tardiness in making payments and failure to pay rent for 18 months on a separate county property.
The Sun
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435 arrests, $12 million in OT, few lessons learned: LAPD issues report on ICE protests
A new LAPD report released Tuesday blamed poor planning and coordination for issues with the department's response to protests that erupted on city streets last summer in opposition to the Trump administration's immigration policies. But apart from identifying those problems, the report concluded that police officers performed well in the face of "unprecedented" unrest that sometimes devolved into violence and vandalism.
Los Angeles Times
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Cops sweep MacArthur Park in fierce crackdown on drug-fueled chaos
Police descended on Los Angeles’ notoriously drug-infested MacArthur Park on Tuesday -sending junkies scurrying in the latest of a series of sweeps helping reduce the crime scourge in the area. The Los Angeles Police Department’s Rampart Division, which infamously tackles more crime in a small area than almost anywhere in the city, has stepped up foot patrols in the park in an effort to complete a final cleanup of the green space.
California Post
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As OC fights lawsuits over harassment in DA’s office, the cost soars
A series of lawsuits tied to the actions of a disgraced former supervisor at the Orange County District Attorney’s Office already has the county on the hook for $16 million, and current and former prosecutors who recently won multimillion-dollar jury verdicts say a decision by county leaders to pursue appeals is only prolonging the fight. The combined cost of jury awards and settlements related to allegations against Gary Logalbo - a former senior manager at the District Attorney’s Office who was once a close friend of District Attorney Todd Spitzer - is up to about $12 million.
Orange County Register
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Wounded detective airlifted from remote Antelope Valley area after gun battle; suspect is killed
A San Bernardino County sheriff’s detective was shot during an exchange of gunfire in Littlerock on Wednesday afternoon that left a suspect dead, authorities said. L.A. County Sheriff Robert Luna said San Bernardino County detectives were conducting an investigation when they were confronted by a suspect “armed, dangerous and willing to shoot it out with the police.”
Los Angeles Times
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Perris authorities arrest four registered sex offenders during compliance operation
The Perris Station Investigation Bureau conducted a sex offender parole and probation compliance check at multiple locations in Perris, arresting four individuals in connection with violations and other related offenses. Special Enforcement Team, along with Traffic Team investigators, conducted a joint investigation with state parole and Riverside County Probation Department personnel in compliance checks at 32 locations involving 45 registrants to ensure they were following the terms of their sex offender registration requirements, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office.
mynewsLA.com
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Car crashes into preschool in Glendale, 8 children have minor injuries
A 79-year-old woman who attempted a U-turn inside a parking lot of a preschool in Glendale on Friday afternoon accidentally crashed into a wall, authorities said, injuring eight children who sustained non-life-threatening injuries. The woman accidentally stepped on the gas and drove into a wall of a classroom where students were present in the 1200 block of North Pacific Avenue, resulting in eight children receiving minor injuries, a Glendale Police Department spokesman said.
City News Service
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Vehicle set on fire at street takeover in South Los Angeles
A vehicle was set on fire Saturday during a large street takeover in the Gramercy Park community of South Los Angeles, authorities said. Officers were dispatched at 4:30 a.m. Saturday to a report of a street takeover in the area of Western Avenue and Century Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Arriving officers found a large gathering, fireworks and a vehicle on fire in the middle of the road, Officer Rosario Cervantes of the LAPD’s Media Relations Division told City News Service.
mynewsLA.com
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Downey police officers Saturday fatally shot an allegedly armed man suspected of killing another man and woman.
Officers responded to a report of shots fired at 7:50 a.m. Saturday in the 11800 block of Downey Avenue, at De Palma Street, a couple of blocks west of Lakewood Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Homicide detectives were assisting in the shooting investigation.
mynewLA.com
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Man killed in South Gate shooting
A suspect has been detained in the shooting death of a man in South Gate, authorities said Sunday. The victim was found at 9:40 p.m. Saturday in the 3500 block of Liberty Boulevard, between Florence Avenue and Firestone Boulevard, by officers responding to an “assault with deadly weapon, gunshot victim” call, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
mynewsLA.com
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Vandalism linked to Verizon outages affects customers for hours in Southern California
Thousands of Verizon customers in Southern California experienced mobility and internet outages on Sunday, Aug. 9, after vandals cut multiple fiber cables, Verizon officials said. Verizon customers on social media referenced service outages starting on Sunday morning, with several reporting that service in the San Fernando Valley had been out for hours. Verizon technicians repaired damaged cables and the company restored service by 7:30 p.m., said Pete Burd, a Verizon spokesman.
Los Angeles Daily News
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6 arrested, nearly $200k in stolen goods recovered by LA County retail crime task force
Six people were arrested and nearly $200,000 in stolen goods were recovered during a series of operations conducted by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Retail Crime Task Force last week. In a news release shared Wednesday, LASD officials said that multiple warrants were served as part of an investigation spanning across Southern California, including in LA, San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
CBS News
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Commission confirms four appointments to Courts of Appeal
Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero, chair of the Commission on Judicial Appointments, announced today that the commission confirmed four appointments to California’s Courts of Appeal in Ventura, Los Angeles, Fresno, and San Jose; Justice Tari Cody, as presiding justice of the Second Appellate District, Division Six (Ventura), Judge Nicholas Daum, as associate justice of the Second Appellate District, Division Four (Los Angeles), Judge Sonny S. Sandhu, as associate justice of the Fifth Appellate District (Fresno), Judge Charles Adams, as associate justice of the Sixth Appellate District (San Jose).
California Courts Newsroom
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State Bar submits letter to Supreme Court with update on February 2025 CA Bar Exam internal investigation
During closed session on August 4, 2026, the State Bar Board of Trustees approved the submission of a letter to the California Supreme Court that provides an update on the privileged independent internal investigation into the issues relating to the February 2025 California Bar Exam, which the Board initially directed in March 2025. The letter explains that the Board paused the investigation in deference to and during the pendency of the audit by the California State Auditor’s Office, which was also charged with auditing the administration of the February 2025 bar exam.
State Bar of California
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Forest Service kidnapping dredges up legacy of violence toward federal land employees
To those familiar with the often isolated work of federal land management employees, the scene was nightmarish – two U.S. Forest Service biologists went out to survey frogs only to find themselves bound and held captive in a small backwoods trailer by a bearded man who, according to charging documents, emerged from the trees with an assault rifle.
Sacramento Bee
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ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks intended to gain compliance from combative individuals. ICE plans to spend up to $20 million to purchase thousands of “conductive distraction and de-escalation devices” for officers and agents by March, according to a notice published Monday by the Department of Homeland Security.
AP
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Three states set to carry out executions in one day, a first in nearly 16 years
Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma are each scheduled to put a person to death Thursday, potentially marking the first time in nearly 16 years that the United States has carried out three executions in a single day, as concerns over execution procedures, medical complications and the accelerating use of capital punishment continue to surround the cases. If all three lethal injections go forward, they would mark the first three-execution day in the United States since Jan. 7, 2010, when Louisiana, Ohio and Texas each executed someone, according to the Associated Press. Three executions were also scheduled for a single day in 2018, but only one took place after a reprieve in Texas and IV line trouble in Alabama.
Vanguard
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Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal stalking charges in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO
Luigi Mangione has pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. “I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan and he died,” he told the court. “I knew what I was doing was illegal.” Mangione’s state trial is due to begin next month, but following today’s plea, his lawyers filed a motion to dismiss state murder and weapons charges on double jeopardy grounds. Mangione previously pleaded not guilty in both his federal and state cases. In remarks after the hearing, one of Mangione’s lawyers said prosecutors are trying to “punish him twice.”
CNN
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Former prison guard sentenced to 165 years to life for sexually abusing three children
Former California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officer Richard Philip Bardouski was found guilty of sexually assaulting three young family members between 2010 and 2015. "While I cannot give these girls their childhoods back or under the immense pain they’ve suffered, I hope that today’s sentence and having the opportunity to have their voices heard gives them a sense of justice and is a big step toward closing this chapter in their lives," Napa County Deputy District Attorney Shashawnya Worley said in a press release.
FOX2 News
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LAPD officer charged with recording co-workers pleads not guilty
A Los Angeles Police Department officer who recorded some of his colleagues allegedly making racist, sexist and homophobic comments pleaded not guilty Monday through his attorney to 16 felony counts of eavesdropping or recording confidential communications. Daniel Flores, 43, is due back in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom Sept. 9, when a date will be set for a hearing to determine if there is enough evidence for him to stand trial. He remains free on his own recognizance.
mynewsLA.com
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Ex-California governor candidate pleads not guilty to charges he threatened witnesses in fiancée’s case
Billionaire and former gubernatorial candidate Stephen Cloobeck pleaded not guilty Friday to charges that he tried to dissuade people from testifying in a criminal case against his then-fiancée, a model and social media personality. Cloobeck - a real estate magnate who dropped his bid for governor late last year and threw his support behind now-disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell - was charged April 28 with two felony counts of attempting to prevent or dissuade a witness/victim from attending a proceeding by force or threat, and one felony count of preventing or dissuading a witness or victim from attending or testifying at a trial or proceeding.
City News Services
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Man released from life term through Gascón policy given 76 years for later murdering homeless man in Pacoima
A 34-year-old man convicted of killing a homeless man in Pacoima was sentenced this week to 76 years to life in state prison, court records show. Victor Bibiano, whose case gained attention when it was discovered he was released from prison a year before the murder after serving just eight years of a life sentence for a double murder when he was 17 years old, was handed the sentence in San Fernando Superior Court on Monday, Aug. 3, court records show.
Daily Bulletin
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Man convicted of shooting at LAPD helicopter sentenced to prison
An ex-con who was found guilty of shooting at and striking a Los Angeles Police Department helicopter last year was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years and eight months in state prison. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mildred Escobedo cited what she called “a very, very stupid, negligent act” by Douglas Byers in opting against imposing the 41-year, eight-month sentence requested by Deputy District Attorney Eric Siddall.
mynewsLA.com
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3 men found guilty of violent kidnapping, robbery of Southern California businessman
Three men were found guilty of their roles in a violent kidnapping and robbery of a Southern California businessman who was later abandoned in a remote area. The U.S. Attorney’s Office identified the suspects, all Northern California residents, as Jerome Franklin, Jr., 45, a.k.a. “Rome”, Andrae Hawkins, 41, a.k.a. "Plates" and De’Andre Lamont King, 31. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for Nov. 5, in which all three men could face up to life in federal prison.
KTLA5 Los Angeles
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Spencer Pratt says he’s working with Trump on 25 percent federal film tax credit
Reality TV star and former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt said in a recent post that he is working with President Trump on a 25 percent federal film tax. In a Friday post on the social platform X, Pratt stated the move was to “bring back Hollywood.” “I’m committed to saving Hollywood, and I’m very grateful for the President’s remarkable generosity and focus on this issue,” Pratt said. “He is very passionate about revitalizing the entertainment industry and we will not let Canada, or the UK or Budapest steal our lunch anymore.”
The Hill
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Who is liable when AI goes rogue? Lawyers see new risks
Major artificial intelligence developers have reported cases of their autonomous AI models breaching other companies' cyber infrastructure, raising questions about who may be held legally responsible when AI systems act without direct human oversight. Here's a look at some of the legal questions surrounding autonomous AI breaches. ChatGPT maker OpenAI said one of its agents compromised the system of AI startup Hugging Face and that it discovered other instances when its agents escaped their digital containment.
Reuters
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A man accused of orchestrating Tupac Shakur’s 1996 killing is on trial. Here’s what to know
The killing of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur has been a mystery for decades; now the man accused of orchestrating the 1996 shooting near the Las Vegas Strip is on trial. Family members of the famed rapper were among supporters who gathered outside a Las Vegas courthouse Monday morning for the beginning of jury selection, which could continue through much of this week.
AP
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