Matthew Ormseth is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Before joining The Times in 2018, he covered city news and state politics at the Hartford Courant.
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The alleged assassins behind several recent murder-for-hire cases in Los Angeles were sloppy, authorities say, leaving behind a trail of evidence that links the killings to Chicago gang disputes.
Nov. 11, 2024
The case of a man arrested five times in five months raises questions about the reliability of a Probation Department contractor that operates GPS ankle monitors.
Nov. 1, 2024
Lil Durk and members of his music group Only the Family were arrested by federal authorities in an alleged plot to kill rival rapper Quando Rondo.
Oct. 25, 2024
Vem Miller strongly denied in an interview that he planned to assassinate the former president at a rally in Coachella.
Oct. 14, 2024
Deputies arrested a man with guns, fake IDs and license plates in what a sheriff calls a thwarted assassination plot near a Trump rally in Coachella.
Oct. 14, 2024
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies on Saturday arrested a man on suspicion of killing his father near Mt. Baldy.
Oct. 13, 2024
Federal indictment accuses 68 alleged members and affiliates of the Peckerwoods white supremacist gang of selling drugs and committing fraud.
Oct. 2, 2024
One of the pilots was pronounced dead at the scene in Lancaster, while the other pilot was uninjured, officials said. Neither plane had passengers.
Sept. 22, 2024
A driver struck a horse early Sunday on the 15 Freeway in Norco, according to a Riverside County fire official. It was unclear how the horse got onto the freeway.
Sept. 22, 2024
The Bay Area man was killed last week in a California prison where he’d been serving a life sentence for murdering a close friend, officials said.
Sept. 22, 2024