Prosecution

A man whose ex-wife was found dead in the yard of her rented home in March 2010 was arrested Wednesday and charged with stealing from his daughter's education fund. Jeffrey Hamburg, 63 -- who, according to his lawyer, was a focus of the investigation...

WESTMINSTER (KTLA) -- A detention center officer at the Seal Beach City Jail was convicted and sentenced Tuesday for accepting bribes, including an iPad and money, in exchange for allowing an inmate prohibited contraband and visitor contacts. Jose Alday,...

ROME, Italy -- Salvage experts outlined their plan Friday to raise the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner from the sea floor off Italy in one piece and tow it from the disaster site. The complicated operation is expected to start in the next few days...

DEL AIRE, Calif. (KTLA) -- A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy who tried to smuggle heroin hidden inside a burrito into a jail pleaded not contest Monday. Henry Marin, 27, pleaded no contest to one count each of bringing drugs into a jail and...

LIMA, Peru -- The process to extradite Joran van der Sloot from Peru to the United States to face criminal charges has begun, according to Maximo Altez, van der Sloot's Peruvian attorney. Peruvian judges in January sentenced the Dutchman to 28 years in...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A contrite and tearful Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, sentenced for falsely imprisoning his wife during a New Year's Eve argument, apologized Monday for the pain he has caused and said that "I accept full responsibility." In a plea agreement...

SANTA ANA, calif. (KTLA) -- A Lake Elsinore man convicted of nearly cutting a man's head off during a deadly stabbing attack in 2006 has been sentenced to 25- years to life in prison. Hector Delio Aguilar Jaramillo, 42, was convicted in February of...

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- A Florida man accused of hacking into emails of several celebrities, including Scarlett Johansson, pleaded guilty in a downtown L.A. courtroom on Monday. Christopher Chaney, 35, of Jacksonville, pleaded guilty to nine counts of...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (KTLA) -- An Orange County jury failed to reach a verdict and a judge declared a mistrial Monday in the case of a young mother accused of suffocating her newborn daughter and dumping her in a trash bin. Superior Court Judge Thomas...

Manuel Clemon, the man charged with murdering 42-year-old Deshone Caradine of South Bend, has been apprehended in Chicago, police say. Prosecutors on Friday formally charged the 44-year-old fugitive with fatally stabbing his longtime girlfriend and...

SAN DIEGO (KTLA) -- Prosecutors say they will not file charges in an alleged assault involving Lakers star Kobe Bryant and another man at a church. It happened at St. Therese of Carmel in Carmel Valley in August, according to police. Investigators say a...

A 20-year-old father from Union City was arrested last week after police said he struck his 9-month-old son in the head with a bottle. Cody Griffin was charged with battery with injury to a child less than 14-years-old, a Class D felony, on February 2....