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A Southern California church pastor was arrested for allegedly stealing over $230,000 through wire fraud schemes targeting friends. Terrance Owens Elliott, 60, of Crestline, also known as “Tony Elliott,” was arrested Thursday and charged with 11 counts of wire fraud, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Elliot is...

BRENTWOOD, CA – The Bay Area’s newest Costco is opening its doors in Brentwood with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 7 a.m. on Friday. Located at 5151 Heidorn Ranch Road, the massive 155,000-square-foot warehouse is now the largest Costco in Contra Costa County, surpassing locations in Antioch, Richmond, Danville, and...

Law enforcement officers in Southern California have recovered an astonishing $4 million in stolen merchandise from major retailers like Target, Nordstrom, and TJ Maxx in a large-scale retail theft bust. According to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (LASD) and the county’s Organized Retail Crime Task Force...

(The Center Square) - A court-ordered assessment of the City of Los Angeles’ $2.3 billion in recent homelessness spending has found officials often paid bills without verifying services were provided. This means in many instances, taxpayer money was spent without any results. That could explain some of the...

Haden Kirkpatrick, a top State Farm executive, said he was fired after being recorded in an undercover video making disparaging remarks about Pacific Palisades homeowners.

A Los Angeles County inmate died after another inmate allegedly attacked him on Friday morning, officials said. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation identified the victim as 39-year-old Joshua L. Peppers. Investigators said it was around 7:20 a.m. when the homicide suspect, identified as...

Brand-new quarterly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), analyzed by the Employment Policies Institute (EPI), has laid bare a grim reality for California’s fast food industry: the state has shed up to 16,000 jobs since Governor Gavin Newsom signed the $20 fast food minimum wage law, AB 1228, in September...

Los Angeles Assemblymember Rick Zbur says he wants to narrow the standards for justifiable homicide. Critics say he wants to make self-defense illegal. Assembly Bill 1333 has provoked a great deal of debate since its introduction in late February. In response to several states’ “stand-your-ground laws,” which permit...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Sacramento, CA —As college acceptance and financial aid letters arrive, California’s high school seniors and college students have a major opportunity through the CalKIDS program to ease their education costs. CalKIDS is the nation’s largest...

Billions of dollars spent on services for homeless people in Los Angeles are unaccounted for, after a court-ordered audit conducted by Alvarez & Marsal Public Sector Services of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA). The court-ordered assessment, conducted by Alvarez & Marsal Public Sector Services...