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View MoreBill Essayli, the chief federal prosecutor for the Central District of California, was found by a judge Tuesday to be illegally serving as a “de facto” U.S. attorney and thus should be disqualified from two cases.
A woman who faked two pregnancies and falsely claimed that a former star of “The Bachelor” was the father of one of the children has been sentenced to 30 days in jail. The sentencing in an Arizona courtroom ended a years-long legal saga that began when Laura Michelle Owens falsely claimed she was pregnant with…
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The scale of the downtown area is overwhelming. Massive skyscrapers rise from the banks of the Chicago River as it meanders toward Lake Michigan. The El bangs along rickety tracks in its endless loop around downtown. Of all the major metropolitan areas in our country, Chicago may be the most impressive.
A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that Bill Essayli is unlawfully serving as Los Angeles’ top federal prosecutor and ordered him disqualified from overseeing two criminal cases, rejecting the Justice Department’s latest effort to preserve his authority. Senior U.S. District Judge J. Michael Seabright, however, delayed the disqualifications from taking effect while he considers an…
The Los Angeles city attorney’s office is suing an animal rescue organization that was once a favorite among Hollywood celebrities, alleging that its owner purchased dogs from puppy mills and portrayed them to adopters as animals that were rescued. Melissa Bacelar, chief executive and owner of Wagmor Pets in Studio City, bought and resold “hundreds…
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You’ve filled out that lengthy 2026 general election ballot and shipped it off in the mail or dropped it in one of the boxes scattered around town.
A federal judge overseeing a case in which the U.S. Department of Justice is hoping to force California election officials to set aside the ballots of 20,000 alleged noncitizen voters will issue his ruling by Wednesday.