James Queally writes about crime and policing in Southern California, where he currently covers Los Angeles County’s criminal courts, the district attorney’s office and juvenile justice issues for the Los Angeles Times. A part of the team of reporters that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 2015 terror attack at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, Queally has written extensively about violence, police pursuits, street racing and law enforcement misconduct since coming to The Times. A Brooklyn native, he moved West in 2014 after spending five years covering crime and police news for the Star-Ledger in New Jersey. Not content with real-life crimes, he also makes up fictional ones: Queally is the author of three novels – “Line of Sight,” “All These Ashes” and “Surviving the Lie” – that make up the Russell Avery series for Counterpoint Press.
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A Los Angeles County judge took a major step toward shutting down Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey, months after a state oversight body found it ‘unsuitable’ to house youth.
A resentencing hearing that could have given the brothers a shot at parole was delayed after a fight over a parole document ordered by Gov. Gavin Newsom paralyzed proceedings.
Three people suffered stab wounds during an incident in Reseda on Saturday afternoon.
Un juez del condado de Los Ángeles ha denegado la petición del fiscal Nathan Hochman de revocar la petición de volver a condenar a los hermanos Menéndez, preparando el terreno para una vista que podría ofrecer a los hermanos un camino hacia la libertad.
Two people are dead after the driver of a Tesla ran a red light and slammed into a bus in Orange County on Saturday morning, Fullerton police said.
Three youths suffered drug overdoses at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey on Friday, the latest scandal for the beleaguered facility.
A Van Nuys woman was arrested Friday evening after her 7-year-old daughter was found drowned in a bathtub, the Los Angeles Police Department said.
An L.A. County judge has denied Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman’s bid to revoke a petition to resentence the Menendez brothers, setting the stage for a hearing that could offer the brothers a path to freedom.
The wife of celebrity hairstylist Fabio Sementelli has been convicted of arranging his 2017 murder. Prosecutors said Monica Sementelli directed her lover to kill him.
In a case that revealed a string of racist text messages sent by Torrance police officers, former cops Cody Weldin and Christopher Tomsic pleaded no contest to charges linked to a 2021 incident in which they spray-painted a swastika inside a vehicle.