A 72-year-old convicted rapist was sentenced today to 520 years to life in state prison for sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl under his care, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Deputy District Attorney Ani Bailey said John Adam Whitsell was found guilty on Oct. ...

Both Assemblyman Scott Wilk and county Supervisor Michael Antonovich spoke out Tuesday regarding criminal justice concerns they hope voters will address in November. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Wilk was in Sacramento to introduce a bill he said was aimed at helping his constituents deal with the fallout from Proposition 47. ...

Four suspects are sought in a series of residential burglaries, Sheriff’s officials said Monday, while repeating a frequent warning to potential victims — lock your doors, close your garages and makes sure your house doesn’t have basic vulnerabilities, like open windows, when no one is home. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. ...

Courtesy of the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office Former basketball coach at the Albert Einstein Academy in Santa Clarita pleaded no contest today to sexually molesting six boys, according to a District Attorney’s Office news release. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Randolph Jackson, 29, entered his plea just as jury ...

A Saugus man who led California Highway Patrol officers on a high-speed car chase from West Los Angeles to the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station parking lot in late May 2015 was sentenced on Thursday. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking KHTS Santa Clarita News Alerts delivered right to your inbox. Michael White, 48, was sentenced to three years and eight months ...

State Sen. Sharon Runner, and her husband, George, issued a joint statement Friday in response to a decision by the state’s prison system. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. Jessica’s Law authors George and Sharon Runner were “disappointed” by California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation decision to stop enforcing Jessica’s Law residency restrictions statewide: ...

Ed. note: This story is the first of two that will look at the various thus-far impacts of AB 109 and Proposition 47 with respect to law enforcement and the criminal justice system in Los Angeles County. The second part will take a more local look at the impact, including potential links to a rise in crime some believe are related to ...

It was a traffic stop like 1,000 others conducted by Sheriff’s Department deputies across Los Angeles County every day. Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox. A 26-year-old Canyon Country woman was pulled  over Wednesday for a vehicle code violation. And then the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station deputy noticed the strong smell of marijuana. ...

Los Angeles County supervisors Tuesday are expected to approve a reimbursement of about $337.7 million to pay for AB 109 programs, a controversial jail-prison realignment program. While Supervisor Michael Antonovich has been a vocal opponent of the state’s public safety realignment program, which was aimed at reducing the number of non-serious, non-violent and non-sexual offenders in state prisons due to a Supreme Court order, officials claim early data shows promise. "Realignment continues to pose serious concerns and threatens public safety statewide because we are dealing with repeat offenders,” Antonovich said last week, when the law’s implementation was reviewed. “There are over 32,000 arrests involving the 24,000 (post-supervision probationers) under probation supervision because some are being arrested up to seven or eight times."

An Arkansas judge hit Tony Alamo, a former Santa Clarita Valley evangelist, with a $500 million judgment Thursday