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A former San Diego County sheriff’s deputy who was sentenced in December to nearly four years in prison for assaulting more than a dozen women while on duty has been released a little more than six months later, according to the sheriff’s department.

The criminal case against a Mexican megachurch leader on charges of child rape and human trafficking was dismissed Tuesday by a California appeals court on procedural grounds.

A former San Diego County sheriff’s deputy pleaded guilty Monday to assaulting 16 women while on duty and in uniform, including women who had called the department for help or to report a crime.

A former New Jersey police officer has been found guilty of all charges, including the top count of aggravated vehicular homicide, in a drunken driving crash that killed a fellow cop and another man two years ago.

A former teacher from Orange County who was previously convicted of sexually assaulting a teenage boy was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in federal prison for traveling to China to have sex with a 16-year-old youth.

A 33-year-old man was sentenced Monday to a dozen years behind bars for hacking into the Los Angeles Superior Court computer system and using it to send millions of malicious phishing emails designed to retrieve employees’ banking information.

Closing arguments are scheduled for Tuesday in the final phase of the trial for the man dubbed the “Hollywood Ripper,” who is accused in the grisly stabbing deaths of two Southern California women.

The teenage son of the man dubbed the “Hollywood Ripper” told jurors Thursday that he doesn’t want his father to be executed for the grisly slayings of two women.

The man whose cooperation prosecutors said was key to last week’s arrest of political activist and donor Ed Buck says he’s homeless.

Last September, a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black man in his own apartment. That much is settled. But nearly every other aspect Amber Guyger’s murder trial for the killing of Botham Jean remains cloaked in controversy as opening statements in the case are set to start Monday.

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine said Cardi B was a gang member while testifying under oath Thursday as part of a case against two alleged members of a Brooklyn street gang, NBC News reported. 6ix9ine, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, said under cross-examination that Cardi B was also a member of the notorious Bloods gang, according to the New York Daily...

The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to block death penalty cases from proceeding during Gov. Gavin Newsom’s moratorium on executions.

One of the women assaulted by a former San Diego County sheriff’s deputy said she was relieved the man who touched her inappropriately four years ago pleaded guilty. However, she said she was concerned none of the charges in the plea agreement were a sex crime.

Days ahead of a sexual assault trial for a former San Diego County Sheriff’s Deputy, a judge urged prosecutors and defense attorneys on Wednesday to reach a plea deal before trial.

Eye-opening and frustrating. That’s how Millard Billings, a juror in the Ghost Ship trial, described what it was like to decide the fate of Derick Almena and Max Harris.

The upcoming trial of a Chinese national on federal charges that she trespassed at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and lied to the Secret Service is potentially a circus wrapped in mystery. Rejecting the strong recommendation of U.S. District Judge Roy Altman, Yujing Zhang fired her public defenders in June to act as her own attorney – a longshot move...

A paroled sex offender who led authorities on an hours-long pursuit in a motorhome from Los Angeles to Bakersfield, with his 3-year-old son and 10-month-old daughter in tow, was sentenced Wednesday to 88 years in state prison.

Police say a New Jersey man who broke into Taylor Swift’s beachfront mansion in Rhode Island took his shoes off because he wanted to be polite. Westerly police who responded to the home just after 5 p.m. Friday found 26-year-old Richard Joseph McEwan inside.