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The mother of Syed Rizwan Farook has denied in a court document that she had any knowledge and did not participate in the San Beardino Dec. 2 terrorist attack by Farook and wife Tashfeen Malik that killed 14 people and wounded 22. Neither Rafia Farook nor her daughter Saira Khan took took part “in any way with the tragic attack,” the court document said. The statement was included in a claim of interest filed Wednesday in federal court for the $280,756.17 in life insurance benefits left behind by Syed Farook, who died with Malik in a shootout with law enforcement a few hours after the deadly, Islamic State-inspired attack. The disputed money has not been paid out. It is in the custody of th...

Stuffed animals lean against candles. Chalk drawings of hearts cover the street where a little girl and her mother were killed. In the mouful aftermath of a deadly shooting Aug. 6 near Locust Avenue and East Ninth Street, children routinely accompany their parents to the makeshift memorial honoring Carina Mancera, 26, and her 4-year-old daughter, Jeabel Anaya, who were gued down as they retued home from grocery shopping. And the little ones have big questions. Yarely Avina is the mother of Ariel, a 6-year-old girl who attends an elementary school in the same neighborhood where Jeabel was killed. “She asked ‘when is she coming back?’” Avina said. “I told her, ‘She’s not coming back. She’s in...

LOS ANGELES — The parents of “Star Trek” actor Anton Yelchin on Tuesday sued the makers of the Jeep Grand Cherokee, an SUV that was under recall when it crushed and killed the 27-year-old. Victor and Irina Yelchin filed the wrongful-death and product-liability lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler in Los Angeles Superior Court roughly six weeks after their son was killed. The suit contends that the gear selector in the actor’s Jeep was defective and poorly designed and manufactured. “Anton Yelchin was crushed and lingered alive for some time, trapped and suffocating until his death,” the lawsuit says. The actor’s Jeep rolled backward down the driveway of his Studio City home June 19, piing him betw...

A key plank in the GOP convention’s Monday night theme, “Make America Safe Again,” was the need to address crimes by undocumented immigrants. The message was boldly underlined by speeches from three parents who were killed by men in the country illegally, two of whom are from Southe Califoia. Jamiel Shaw told the story of his son, Jamiel Shaw II, a high school football star who had called his father on March 2, 2008, to say he was on his way to his home from the mall. His son was nearly back to his South Los Angeles home when he was shot and killed by a gang member in the country illegally, Pedro Espinoza, 24. Police said Espinoza mistook Shaw’s Spiderman backpack for the colors of a rival ...