A Los Angeles County judge on Monday denied a resentencing bid from a Palmdale woman who pleaded guilty to the first-degree murder of her 8-year-old son, Gabriel Fernandez, in a case dating back to 2013. Pearl Sinthia Fernandez, 42, was sentenced in March 2018 to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the killing of her son, Gabriel. ...

Opening statements began Wednesday in the trial against the mother of 10-year-old Anthony Avalos and her boyfriend in the torture and subsequent murder of the Lancaster boy. On Wednesday, the trial process began for Heather Maxine Barron, 33, and Kareem Ernesto Leiva, 37, who are charged in connection with Anthony’s murder in June 2018. Barron and Leiva have been charged ...