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A lawsuit filed against a woman by an author of horror fiction books alleging she libeled him on Twitter in 2021 by falsely saying he had sexually harassed multiple women is "frivolous" and should be dismissed on free-speech grounds, the woman's attorney's argue in new court papers.

Over the course of a decade, the Orange County District Attorney's Office and Sheriff's Department "systematically" violated the rights of criminal defendants through the use of jailhouse informants to elicit incriminating statements from inmates awaiting trial, the U.S. Dept. of Justice concluded.

Following Nury Martinez's resignation from the Los Angeles City Council, the city's Chief Legislative Analyst will serve as a non-voting caretaker of the Sixth District effective immediately, under an appointment by Acting Council President Mitch O'Farrell Thursday.

Authorities Thursday were investigating a call, believed by officials to be not credible, regarding an active shooter at Monrovia High School.

A man was found dead Tuesday in an unincorporated area of South Gate about a half-mile from the scene of another death investigation, and sheriff's detectives are assisting the South Gate Police Department with the investigation.

A man was acquitted of second-degree murder Tuesday for the shooting of a Pomona SWAT officer who was helping to serve a search warrant at the San Gabriel house where the defendant and his family lived nearly eight years ago, but jurors deadlocked on two other charges against him.

In a statement, her family announced that Lansbury "died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 a.m. ... just five days shy of her 97th birthday."

According to the city charter, council members can be censured with a two-thirds vote if they conduct actions that "constitute a gross failure to meet such high standards, even if the action does not constitute a ground for removal from office under the Charter."

Firefighters went to Soledad Canyon and Capra roads at about 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department.

A former Angels communications director was sentenced Tuesday to 22 years in federal prison for providing drugs to pitcher Tyler Skaggs, who died of an overdose in a hotel room while the team was on a 2019 road trip.