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On Thursday,  federal prosecutors arraigned wealthy Democratic political donor, Ed Buck, on charges that included multiple counts of distributing narcotics that, on two occasions, led to the overdose deaths of two different men, first Gemmel Moore, in...

By Emily Galvin-Almanza, The Appeal
On Dec. 10, 2016, Darrell Caldwell, a rapper known as Drakeo the Ruler, pulled up to a party near the Los Angeles International Airport. According to recently filed court documents, he was with a mix of friends, including supposed-rival Crip and Blood...

On Tuesday evening Governor Gavin Newsom announced that he had taken his signing pen to 25 criminal and juvenile justice reform bills, including bills to boost diversion and reentry systems and expand victim services. Here’s a rundown of the new laws...

Since its launch in 2014, the Los Angeles Unified School District’s diversion program has served 1,954 kids that would otherwise have been funneled into the criminal justice system. Of the nearly 2,000 students who were diverted into community programs...