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The first person to face criminal charges in the scandal surrounding the now-defunct Los Angeles law firm Girardi Keese pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a federal wire fraud charge.

Vigils are planned Tuesday evening and Wednesday to honor the victims of last weekend's mass shooting in Monterey Park.

Julie Miller-Phipps, the Kaiser Permanente Southern California president who navigated the organization through three years of the COVID-19 pandemic, plans to retire in July, the hospital announced Tuesday.

The number of COVID-19-positive patients in county hospitals fell below the 800 mark Tuesday, continuing a generally downward trend from the past several months.

Orange County supervisors Tuesday approved writing a letter of support for state Sen. Tom Umberg's bill that could help prosecutors file second-degree murder charges against fentanyl dealers when a customer dies as a result of ingesting their product.

A jury has awarded more than $12 million to a woman who sued the city of Long Beach and one of its police officers for negligence and wrongful death in the 2017 death of her 23-year-old son, who was pinned between a Metro train and a train platform during a confrontation with the officer.

A lawsuit in which Marilyn Manson was sued in federal court by "Game of Thrones" actress Esmé Bianco for alleged sexual assault and battery in what she described as a series of violent encounters has been settled, according to court papers obtained Wednesday.

Two ordinances providing permanent tenant protections in Los Angeles are expected to be heard by the City Council on Friday after a council committee forwarded both items without a recommendation Tuesday.

A man who allegedly crashed a car and a dump truck into the garage of his estranged wife's home in South Los Angeles was in custody Tuesday after surrendering to authorities.

A crash involving a pair of SUVs in Santa Monica escalated into a shooting Tuesday, with one motorist suffering a gunshot wound to a shoulder and the other taken into custody.