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State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson weighed in Friday on a report that the Inglewood Unified School District spent thousands on a weekend junket in San Diego for administrators to discuss changes in the curriculum.
A West Hollywood esthetician has been arrested in connection with an alleged murder-for-hire plot.
Tighter security measures will be in place Sunday for the ASICS Los Angeles Marathon in the wake of last year's Boston bombings.
Authorities say a 30-year-old man was sentenced Friday to 28 years to life in prison for stabbing his grandmother to death before setting her home ablaze in 2009.
Family members say the former president of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has died in Oceanside, Calif.
A lawyer for a California educator accused of sex crimes after a former student talked about sex-abuse allegations on YouTube said Friday that the charges are too old to be tried in court.
Federal education officials on Friday approved California's plan to roll out new computer-based standardized tests this spring.
Two Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies described in Newsweek's story about "the face behind Bitcoin" say the quotes attributed to Dorian Nakamoto and a deputy in the story are accurate.
Authorities say one person has died following an apartment fire in South Los Angeles.
A woman was charged with child abuse Friday after her two toddlers were found roaming the streets of south Los Angeles earlier this week, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced.
A judge says former NFL All-Pro safety Darren Sharper cannot be held without bail indefinitely in a sex assault case in Los Angeles but gave Louisiana prosecutors more time to indict him before allowing his release in California.
Authorities have charged a 19-year-old Orange County man in the shooting of a divorced San Juan Capistrano couple who was found dead last month, a sheriff's spokesman said Friday.
A 59-year-old woman found guilty of defrauding a group of Roman Catholic Sisters was sentenced Friday.
A local assemblyman Friday announced legislation seeking to phase out orca captivity in California.
Authorities were investigating Friday after an ATM was stolen from a restaurant on Balboa Island in Newport Beach.
