Jasmine “Jaz” Mendez is an editorial assistant at the Los Angeles Times. She previously was a reporting intern for the Metro Desk, covering housing in Los Angeles. Mendez graduated from Cal State Northridge with a bachelor’s degree in political science and a minor in Spanish-language journalism.
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Dr. Victor Contreras, 69, of Santa Paula, accused of falsifying millions of dollars of Medicare claims for hospice care, is sentenced to two years in federal prison.
The Los Angeles City Council is considering cracking down on the illegal sale of nitrous oxide — known as laughing gas — used in culinary, industrial and medical spaces.
A group of six former Apple employees are charged in an alleged charity matching donation scheme, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office said.
The aircraft headed to Everett, Wash., aborted its takeoff after striking a bird on the runway Tuesday morning at LAX.
Last month, the California National Guard’s Counterdrug Task Force seized 1.7 million fentanyl pills. This comes after Gov. Gavin Newsom double the task force staff in June.
Police are looking for a Rolls-Royce driver who sped down Sherman Way alongside another vehicle that struck and killed a 22-year-old churchgoer Friday.
He ran an online sextortion scheme for over 4 years. He could now face decades in federal prison after pleading guilty of distributing child sexual abuse content.
24-year-old Mitrice Richardson disappeared in 2009 after leaving a Malibu sheriff’s station, and was found dead months after.
A 72-year-old Long Beach man was found dead in his home Friday night. But what officials believed to be a suicide is now a homicide investigation.