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A Los Angeles nun and school principal who stole more than $800,000 to pay for a gambling habit was sentenced Monday to a year in federal prison.

Two former Torrance police officers were charged with felony vandalism and conspiracy to commit a crime involving a swastika that was spray-painted inside an impounded vehicle in January 2020.

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The former manager of DMV’s Lincoln Park office faces up to 20 years behind bars when sentenced in August for taking bribes to approve driver’s licenses for people who could not otherwise pass their driving exams.

Ramon Bustamante was the cashier with the long line at checkout because everyone wanted to stop by and say hello. But his family has now been forced to say goodbye after he lost his battle with COVID-19. Bustamante was happiest surrounded by his five children. The 54-year-old single dad couldn’t have them all by his side when he died...

A hate crime suspect, who was arrested in July in Torrance after allegedly performing a Nazi salute and vandalizing an occupied vehicle with a shovel, pleaded not guilty Monday to felony charges.

A woman who was captured on camera giving racist rants targeting Asian Americans in Torrance was sentenced Tuesday to jail after pleading no contest in connection with a Del Amo mall assault.

Authorities are investigating two hate crime suspects who said “white lives matter,” made a Nazi salute, and allegedly attacked a vehicle with a gardening tool in Torrance.

A 42-year-old Redondo Beach man accused of assaulting two people in Torrance while hurling racial epithets is set to be arraigned Tuesday. Dennis Aaron Wyman is charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon — a car — and one count of hit-and-run driving resulting in serious injury to another person. He is also facing a special allegation…

A woman dubbed “Torrance Karen,” who was caught on video going on racist rants in June, will not be charged with any crime related to those incidents, the Torrance City Attorney’s Office said Thursday. She will, however, be charged with battery for an incident dating back to 2019.  Lena Hernandez was identified by Torrance police after a video of...

A typed letter posted on the front door of a shop in Torrance has become evidence in a hate crime investigation Tuesday. The letter reads: “We want you to move out.” It also goes on to threaten violence. The owner of the Japanese cookware shop says it’s is the worst type of racism he’s experienced since he moved to...

More people with videos and photos have come forward Thursday after recognizing a woman seen in a viral video berating a young woman working out on the stairs at Wilson Park in Torrance, California, telling the woman to “go back to whatever … Asian country she belongs in.” A 42-year-old Torrance father, who identifies as Asian-American and wished to remain…

Editor’s Note: There is an updated version of this story after more people came forward. Read it here. A video from the South Bay was spreading like wildfire on social media after it showed an older woman berating a younger woman working out at Wilson Park in Torrance, telling her to “go back where she came from” and “get...

A man is in critical condition after being beaten by thieves who stole a case of beer from a Torrance area 7-Eleven, according to his family. “Hoping for a miracle,” said Wafa Naqvi, the victim’s niece. “Even if he does recover he’s never going to be the same man he was,” Syed Ali, who Naqvi says has always been...

A Scottish man who authorities say faked his death off California’s Carmel coast to avoid rape charges back home has been arrested, authorities announced Friday.

Shark sightings near El Portal Beach Friday afternoon forced a shutdown of about a mile of the shoreline.

Three members of a white supremacist group were sentenced Friday to between two and three years in prison for punching, kicking and choking anti-racism protesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia and political rallies in California.

A 15-year-old girl is being sought after she was last seen with her mother and a man who are both suspects in the killing of a man whose body was found in the front seat of a car in Carson.

A 31-year-old man who was on parole for sex crimes against children was arrested in Torrance after he was accused of sexually assaulting a student on a playground, police said.