A 21-year-old Los Angeles man was sentenced Friday to 16 months in state prison for attempting to coerce a woman into sex ...

A journalist spent more than two years investigating a 50-block stretch in Los Angeles, where girls are sex trafficked in ...

The crisis is known by many, but truly seen by few — perhaps, until now. Sex trafficking in Los Angeles operates in plain ...

The Figueroa Street corridor has faced serious problems of drug and prostitution for years, and residents have had enough. Residents in the South Los Angeles neighborhood walked side by side with Los ...

Community members in South Los Angeles are calling for motels along Figueroa Street to be shut down due to safety concerns like sex trafficking, drugs and prostitution. Activists marched on Saturday, ...

A grand jury indicted 11 members and associates of the Hoover Criminal Gang for sex trafficking children and adults along South Los Angeles' Figueroa Corridor, according to the U.S. Department of ...

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

November 18, 2025 – COMPTON, CA – Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office officials report that a 21-year-old man from Los Angeles was sentenced Friday to 16 months in state prison –to be served ...