Rebecca Ellis is a reporter at the Los Angeles Times focused on government accountability, investigations and legal affairs. Previously, she covered Portland city government for Oregon Public Broadcasting. Before OPB, Ellis wrote for the Miami Herald, freelanced for the Providence Journal and reported as a Kroc fellow at NPR in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Brown University in 2018. Ellis was a finalist for the Livingston Awards in 2022 for her investigation into abuses within Portland’s private security industry and in 2024 for an investigation into sexual abuse inside L.A. County’s juvenile halls.
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Starved, abused, found dead in freezer: Nobody intervened as L.A. County boy suffered, witnesses say
An 8-year-old boy was beaten, left chained up and starved over the course of a year, losing more than 100 pounds before he was found dead last October, according to testimony in his parents’ murder case. Questions remain about why school officials and social workers failed to check on the boy.
California lawmakers call for criminal penalties and emergency legislation as tech leaders warn of existential risks from rogue AI.
Two firms representing roughly half of the victims in the nation’s largest sex abuse settlement have had their payments delayed amid pending audit and fraud probes, leaving many clients who expected life-changing sums stuck in limbo.
L.A. County has billed hundreds of celebrities, billionaires and tech moguls accused of not paying taxes on their luxury jets.
State legislators said Thursday that they plan to make “modest” changes to a controversial law that extended the statute of limitations for lawsuits over sexual abuse, resulting in billions of dollars in payouts from local governments.
Legislators advanced bills, backed by California’s powerful trial lawyer trade group, aimed at policing the state’s legal industry, which has been bruised by ‘a wave of inappropriate attorney conduct’ highlighted by The Times.
A motorcyclist sued after he was hit by a fire truck that was driving through an East Hollywood intersection in 2021, causing injuries that required his leg to be amputated below the knee.
Attorneys for State Farm apologized to a judge for submitting legal briefings rife with AI hallucinations and nonexistent case law, which were not fact-checked.
Attorneys for Downtown LA Law Group said in court Thursday that the firm plans to drop out of litigation over the Chiquita Canyon landfill amid allegations of misconduct.
The Ventura County Sheriff’s department said they responded to the 3900 block of Las Posas Road at 2 a.m. and found a man lying near an e-bike.