LOS ANGELES — Four members of the gang MS-13 were found guilty Thursday of murdering three people in the Angeles National Forest, including one victim whose body was dismembered and then thrown down a canyon, according to authorities.

Angel Amadeo Guzman, 31, of Panorama City; Fernando Garcia Parada, 28, of Panorama City; Edgard Velasquez, 43...Read more

President Donald Trump’s pick for a federal judge in Pennsylvania can move forward, and it appears Sen. John Fetterman, D., Pa., is to thank.

Fetterman, like all U.S. senators, has the ability to block the president’s nominations to the federal bench — which are lifetime appointments — in their state. The arcane courtesy, known in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — State and federal wildfire officials have spent the past five years rapidly expanding efforts to thin out hundreds of thousands of acres of dense fire-prone forests, reduce the number of human-caused ignitions and fortify millions of homes against flames, heat and embers.

On Friday, those officials unveiled a draft plan to ramp ...Read more

DETROIT — A man from Honolulu faces federal charges for threatening to attack the state Capitol and kill Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, along with "as many people as possible," officials said.

Ronald Saville was charged Monday with sending threats by interstate communication, according to Ken Sorenson, U.S. Attorney for the District of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli on Friday morning said his office “has multiple election fraud investigations underway,” in coordination with the FBI in Los Angeles.

Essayli’s remarks, posted to X, seemed to be in response to President Donald Trump alleging in his own social media post late Wednesday that ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The FBI has added a Minneapolis grocer accused of defrauding a federally funded meals program to the agency’s new “Most Wanted Fraudsters” list.

Authorities allege Said Ereg, 47, fraudulently obtained millions in federal dollars meant to feed children in Minnesota through the Feeding Our Future nonprofit. The FBI is ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The last time Angelenos sacked an incumbent city attorney in the primaries, almost 30% of them were unemployed.

That was May 2, 1933, the nadir of the Great Depression, when sprawling encampments blanketed downtown, King Kong ruled movie theaters and violent crime reached a fever pitch not seen again for nearly half a century.

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LOS ANGELES — After the 2022 Los Angeles mayoral primary, developer Rick Caruso looked to have a surprising, and sizable, lead over then-U.S. Rep. Karen Bass.

The morning after the polls closed, Caruso was ahead by 5 percentage points — 42% to Bass’ 37% — and the former Republican called the early results “a victory story.”

But ...Read more

DENVER — Members of Colorado’s Black community expressed outrage Friday in the wake of a Colorado Court of Appeals ruling that overturned the convictions of two former Aurora paramedics involved in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain.

Standing on a street corner in Denver’s historically Black Five Points neighborhood, a group of activists, ...Read more

BOSTON — Canton says it placed ex-cop Sean Goode on leave upon hearing of his alleged involvement in vile and racist text message exchanges but that it “did not and still does not” have a copy of the messages.

“Claims that the Town knowingly ignored misconduct or failed to take these allegations seriously are inconsistent with the ...Read more

The United States and Iran remained at loggerheads over any potential truce heading into the weekend, with the conflict nearing the 100-day mark and Tehran saying that it and Oman have sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.

Following skirmishes overnight between Hezbollah and Israel in southern Lebanon, Iran continued to insist on a ceasefire ...Read more

MIAMI — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis won’t say how much he’s spent to carry out his vision for state-run immigration detention centers, but his office has signed at least 55 contracts worth $1 billion over the past year for the effort, a Miami Herald analysis found.

The vast majority of those contracts were for building and maintaining the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge dismissed a murder indictment Friday against a former Los Angeles police officer in the 2015 killing of an unarmed homeless man.

Judge Ronald S. Coen said prosecutors failed to meet the standards for a murder charge and failed to present exculpatory evidence to the 2024 grand jury that ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — The sailor accused of killing Angelina Resendiz appeared in court for the final time Friday before he pleads guilty next week.

The accused, Petty Officer 3rd Class Jermiah Copeland, is expected on Monday to plead guilty in a Navy court to killing Resendiz, as well as to other counts related to assaults on four other women ...Read more

Astronauts are sheltering on board a docked SpaceX Crew Dragon as cracks in need of repair got worse on the International Space Station on Friday, according to NASA.

Russian space agency Roscosmos has opted to try to repair to the worsening leaks on its Zvezda service module tunnel, which “has suffered from cracks and leaks for some time, and...Read more

An overloaded boat carrying 240 Haitian migrants was interdicted near the Turks and Caicos Islands on Sunday as Haiti’s humanitarian crisis deepens amid escalating gang violence and continued forced deportations from neighboring countries.

The small vessel was stopped by the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine ...Read more

DETROIT — A man from Honolulu faces federal charges for threatening to attack the state Capitol and kill Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, along with "as many people as possible," officials said.

Ronald Saville was charged Monday with sending threats by interstate communication, according to Ken Sorenson, U.S. Attorney for the District of ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A 57-year-old man has been arrested for stalking and threatening South Carolina state Rep. Seth Rose and his family.

The man, Dewayne Simmons, of Blythewood, is being held at Richland County’s Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center on Bluff Road. His alleged motive not known.

Rose and his family, which includes three children, ...Read more