Defence and prosecution prepare for retrial of the once-powerful movie producer in a case that was a landmark for the #MeToo movement. New York’s highest court has overturned disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction for rape and sexual assault, highlighting the challenges of holding powerful men to account. The Court of Appeals found on …
LOS ANGELES — A Burbank man who allegedly evaded the payment of nearly $5.8 million in federal taxes over several years by using a shill to illegally collect Medicare reimbursement payments made to his blood-testing company was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury. Armen Muradyan, 58, is charged in downtown Los Angeles with one …
VAN NUYS — A former athletic trainer who worked at two high schools in the San Fernando Valley pleaded no contest Monday to felony charges stemming from the sexual assaults of 12 teenage girls. Richard Alexander Turner, now 65, was immediately sentenced to 36 years in state prison and ordered to register as a sex …
Jamie Rodgers was mildly curious when he noticed a line of Orange County sheriff’s patrol cars driving near him on the 73 toll road in Laguna Niguel one morning in June 2021. Rodgers’ curiosity grew when one of the cars began swerving side to side, setting up a traffic break. “They must be looking for …
In his professional life, Christopher Bingham worked as a correctional deputy for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. But in his secret life, he used the alias “Charles Tate” to communicate with members of the Mongols outlaw motorcycle gang, in which sheriff’s investigators believe he was deeply immersed. During Bingham’s preliminary hearing at the San …
PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court gave the go-ahead Tuesday to prepare to enforce a long-dormant law that bans nearly all abortions, drastically altering the legal landscape for terminating pregnancies in a state likely to have a key role in the presidential election. The law predating Arizona’s statehood provides no exceptions for rape or …
The killing of Blaze Bernstein by former classmate Samuel Woodward was not driven by hate, a defense attorney suggested Wednesday as he detailed for jurors the complex interactions between the two young men on a dating app leading up to Bernstein’s violent slaying in January 2018. Bernstein directed Woodward to the Lake Forest park where …
By Michael R. Sisak, Jake Offenhartz and Jennifer Peltz | Associated Press NEW YORK — A New York appeals court judge on Monday rejected Donald Trump’s bid to delay his April 15 hush money criminal trial while he mounts a last-minute fight to move the case out of Manhattan, foiling the former president’s latest attempt …
Holding a photo of her longtime partner, Blanca Rosas said she never imagined one night out celebrating a co-worker’s birthday at a bar in San Pedro would destroy her family. “My kids are left without a father,” she said at a news conference in late March. “My family is broken and will never be the …
The bitter legal battle over Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s $500 million French winery could hinge on a measly $1. The Hollywood exes have been fighting over the vineyard they purchased in 2008 ever since Jolie filed for divorce in 2016. The legal war over the estate is more complex than a 1961 Bordeaux and …