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A 45-year-old Orange County boxing coach was convicted Friday and sentenced to two years in state prison for sexually assaulting two 14-year-old boys that he met at a Santa Ana boxing club, prosecutors said. Anthony Serrano of Santa Ana pleaded guilty to four felony counts of lewd acts on a child, according to a statement from the Orange County district attorney's office. In addition to his prison sentence, Serrano will have to register as a lifetime sex offender. Prosecutors said that Serrano sexually assaulted two boys while working as a coach at the Santa Ana Boxing Club.

An Orange County Superior Court judge is being investigated by the Sheriff's Department on suspicion of  improper sexual conduct -- allegedly in his courtroom chambers - authorities said. Deputies are completing a month-long investigation into Scott Steiner, a former high-ranking prosecutor and the son of former Orange County Supervisor William Steiner, said Jim Amormino, a spokesman with the sheriff's department.  Amormino said that Steiner's chambers were searched, and potential evidence was gathered and will be tested for DNA. The investigation is expected to be completed next week, and deputies will send a report to the state attorney general, Amormino said.

Facing a court-ordered stint in a locked-down rehabilitation center for reckless driving and lying to police in Santa Monica, Lindsay Lohan won't be charged in an incident at a New York nightclub. Psychic Tiffany Mitchell alleged Nov. 29 that Lohan hit her at a Manhattan club. Lohan through her attorney has denied striking the woman. At Lohan's sentencing this week in Los Angeles on two misdemeanor charges related to a traffic collision on Pacific Coast Highway, a judge indicated that if Lohan were charged and convicted in the New York case, it could be considered a violation of her probation.

Former lawmaker Mike Feuer and Los Angeles City Atty. Carmen Trutanich appeared headed for a May runoff election after a tempestuous campaign that pitted the wounded incumbent against two well-financed challengers. Trutanich, battling back from his poor showing in a race for county district attorney last year, trailed Feuer as returns in the city attorney race trickled in Tuesday but was running ahead of private attorney Greg Smith. Another private attorney, Noel Weiss, lagged far behind.

On the morning after he became the top vote-getter in a bruising, four-candidate contest for Los Angeles city attorney, former lawmaker Mike Feuer got up early Wednesday and hit the phones, already campaigning for the May runoff against incumbent Carmen Trutanich. "This is the time to seize this momentum and carry it forward," Feuer said after unofficial returns from Tuesday's municipal primary showed him with almost 44% of the vote to Trutanich's 30%. Two other candidates, private attorneys Greg Smith and Noel Weiss, finished with 17% and nearly 7%, respectively.

Ed Miller, who served as San Diego County district attorney for 24 years and, beginning in the scandal-ridden 1970s, was a major figure in reforming the city's political, business and law enforcement establishment, has died. He was 87. Miller died Sunday of liver cancer at his La Jolla home, said his son, Stephen. The Democrat served in the San Diego city attorney's office in the 1960s and was appointed U.S. attorney in 1966 by President Lyndon Johnson. After being ousted by Johnson's Republican successor, Richard Nixon, Miller went into private practice.

Los Angeles County prosecutors on Tuesday accused singer Chris Brown of failing to complete his court-ordered community service for his 2009 assault conviction and questioned whether the documents submitted as proof of his service were fraudulent. A motion filed by the district attorney's office said that Brown claimed he completed four hours of trash pickup between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. on one day when he was actually on a private plane to Cancun that he boarded at 4 p.m. On another day that the entertainer said he was picking up trash in a Richmond, Va., alley, news photographers were snapping him 100 miles away in Washington, D.C., where he hosted a charity event that raised funds for the developmentally disabled, prosecutors contended.

Alan Jackson, a veteran Los Angeles County prosecutor whose bid to become district attorney ended in defeat in November, is leaving the district attorney's office to join a private, downtown firm that practices civil law. Jackson, 47, said his last day in the office he sought to lead will be Feb. 15. He will pursue a career as a civil litigator with Palmer, Lombardi and Donohue, whose three partners were political supporters of his election campaign....

State Republican legislators want federal prosecutors to investigate the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection for putting $3.6 million from legal settlements into an off-budget account. "This subterfuge money has been spent on a wide array of questionable expenditures that has nothing to do with reimbursing the state for firefighting costs," the legislators wrote in a Friday letter to Gov. Jerry Brown, asking him to request an investigation by the U.S. attorney. The letter follows a story in The Times that found that from 2005 to 2012, Cal Fire, as the department is commonly known, placed funds with the California District Attorneys Assn.

More than a dozen years after being bounced from office by the voters of Los Angeles, Gil Garcetti doesn't want to forget his time as district attorney so much as he wants to reframe it. "You can mention that I am a former district attorney somewhere along the line," Garcetti tells people who introduce him at public events. "But I am a photographer, first and foremost. " With a slight pause, he adds: "The best line, though, is going to be being introduced as the father of the mayor of Los Angeles.