The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office today made a series of recommendations aimed at improving safety at California race tracks, but concluded there was no criminal wrongdoing connected to the deaths of dozens of horses over the past year at Santa Anita Park.

Two horses died after the first race at Los Alamitos Race Course Saturday, adding to the death toll in a year that has seen increased scrutiny of the sport in Southern California.

At her request, former local sports reporter Kelli Tennant’s lawsuit accusing ex-Lakers head coach Luke Walton of sexually assaulting her at a Santa Monica hotel was dismissed this week.

Singer Chris Brown reached a deal with Los Angeles city prosecutors today that is expected to spare him jail time for possessing a capuchin monkey without a permit.

A 22-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison Friday for a brutal baseball bat attack that killed a USC electrical engineering graduate student.

A transient probationer was charged Tuesday with binding a runaway Chihuahua and repeatedly kicking the dog in Santa Ana.

A Los Angeles woman was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in state prison for beating a 91-year-old grandfather with a brick in Willowbrook last summer.

Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein announced Thursday the awarding of more than $8.3 million in assistance funds to California victims of the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting at the Route 91 Country Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas.

A judge has cleared the way for a lawsuit against Courtney Love and others by her former son-in-law — which stems from an alleged attack on the plaintiff in 2016 to try and obtain a prized guitar that once belonged to her late husband Kurt Cobain — to move forward.