Police are searching for three robbers who mugged a 60-year-old man and fatally shot his grandson in Sun Valley Monday night. | Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca wants to hire more staff members who are trained to deal with the mentally ill in county jails. | A 61-year-old man was sentenced Monday to 15 years in federal prison for helping engineer a $14.2 million Medicare fraud, including hiring parishioners at the church he co-lead to help with the scheme, the federal government said. | The vast majority of children arrested on prostitution charges live in the Fourth District of Los Angeles County, according to a statement posted Monday on Supervisor Don Knabe's blog. | The California Supreme Court today reversed the death sentence of a man who was convicted of raping and murdering a woman in Long Beach in December 1998. | A previously convicted sex offender from Huntington Beach has been sentenced to 26 years in prison for filming sexually explicit videos of an 8-year-old girl. | The reserve sheriff's deputy who captured a suspect in dozens of Los Angeles arson fires works for $1 a year and was only on his third solo patrol. | Tipsters are coming forward with additional information regarding actress Natalie Wood's 1981 drowning death, after authorities announced two months ago they were reopening the case, a Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman said Wednesday. |