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A prosecutor told jurors Friday that the evidence was overwhelming that a man murdered a Pomona SWAT officer who was helping to serve a search warrant at the home where the defendant and his family lived, while the defense attorney urged jurors to acquit his client, arguing he acted in self-defense.

A man who fatally stabbed a 77-year-old retiree at the victim's Oceanside beach house was sentenced Friday to 12 years in state prison.

The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County rose for the eighth consecutive day Saturday after decreasing 78 of the previous 80 days, increasing 1.6 cents to $5.368.

There were no tickets sold with all six numbers in the latest drawing of the multi-state Mega Millions lottery and the estimated jackpot for Tuesday's drawing will grow to $231 million.

United Teachers Los Angeles, the union representing about 34,000 employees in the Los Angeles Unified School District, blasted the district's latest contract proposal Friday as "insulting and negligible."

A 58-year-old man was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison for a road rage collision in Placentia that left a motorcyclist hospitalized in critical condition and a pedestrian with a broken leg.

A 33-year-old man has been sentenced to five years in prison for what police said was an unprovoked attack on a cellmate in the Garden Grove jail, according to court records obtained Friday.

Los Angeles County reported 15 more COVID-19- related deaths Friday, along with 2,228 new cases.

A 55-year-old Anaheim man was sentenced Friday to 15 years to life in prison for an alcohol-fueled collision that killed a 6-year- old girl in Fullerton.

A person was hospitalized Saturday after being shot near Montecito Heights.