Salvador Hernandez is a reporter on the Fast Break Desk, the Los Angeles Times’ breaking news team. Before joining the newsroom in 2022, he was a senior reporter for BuzzFeed News, where he covered criminal justice issues, the growing militia movement and breaking news. He also covered crime as a reporter at the Orange County Register. He is a Los Angeles native.
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Oct. 5, 2024
The Menendez brothers have fought a decades-long battle for freedom after being convicted in 1996 in the murders of their parents at their Beverly Hills home.
Oct. 4, 2024
More than three decades after Erik and Lyle Menendez killed their parents, the L.A. County district attorney will review what he described as new evidence that the brothers were molested.
Oct. 3, 2024
Dist. Atty. George Gascón is encouraging anyone who believes they were victimized by Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in Los Angeles County to contact his office.
Oct. 3, 2024
L.A. man spent a decade in prison for ‘shaken baby syndrome’ death. Was it based on faulty evidence?
Ten years after he was convicted in the death of his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son, Jose Olivares was released. Attorneys say others remain imprisoned because of ‘junk science.’
Oct. 3, 2024
A woman alleges in a lawsuit that Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs pressured her to have sex with other men and women and plied her with drugs and alcohol that caused her to pass out.
Sept. 27, 2024
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Sept. 25, 2024
Sean “Diddy” Combs was the only defendant indicted this week in a sweeping sex trafficking and racketeering investigation. But federal prosecutors made clear that they do not believe he was the only one responsible. Is the indictment just the beginning of a larger case against alleged conspirators?
Sept. 19, 2024
After days of marching over the Angeles and San Bernardino national forests, the 51,884-acre Bridge fire was 3% contained.
Sept. 13, 2024
Residents were coming to terms with the losses as firefighters tried to slow destructive brush fires ripping through the mountains of Southern California.
Sept. 12, 2024