A 35-year-old Huntington Beach man was charged Monday in the shooting death of his father as the two were arguing over whether the son could keep the firearm in the home they were sharing.

Jeremy Dwayne Martin was charged with murder in the death Friday of 62-year-old Frederick Martin, the Orange County district attorney's office said. He is being held in lieu of $1-million bail and is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday.

Frederick Martin called Huntington Beach police when an argument over the gun Jeremy Martin was keeping in the house turned into a scuffle as the father tried to take the gun away. Police left after Jeremy Martin refused to speak with the officers.

After the officers left, the two began arguing again, as Frederick Martin did not want the gun in his home. Jeremy Martin allegedly fired the gun, striking his father once. He died at the scene.

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The office manager of a Santa Ana law firm was sentenced Monday to four years in prison for embezzling more than half a million dollars to spend on such things as pet spas and jewelry from a home shopping channel, the Orange County district attorney's office said.

Donna Joy Henderson, 68, of Orange pleaded guilty to a felony count of grand theft by embezzlement for skimming $502,000 from the law firm she managed -- Tustin, Rinos and Martin -- as well as falsifying financial records.

Over six years, prosecutors said, Henderson wrote 122 company checks payable to herself, cash, personal credit cards, relatives or fictitious businesses. She started working at the law firm in 2000; the checks were written between 2003 and 2009.

Henderson used the money to live what prosecutors called a lavish lifestyle that included timeshare properties, vacations, home improvements, jewelry and collectibles from the Home Shopping Network, gambling and pampering both herself and her pet.

Beyond the prison sentence, Henderson has been ordered to repay the $502,000.

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A grass fire burned through about 20 acres in the Antelope Valley on Monday afternoon before it was extinguished by Los Angeles County firefighters, authorities said.

The blaze was reported at 2:07 p.m. It took the 75 firefighters who responded about 50 minutes to put the fire out, said county Fire Inspector Don Kunitomi.

The fire, which burned near East Avenue G and North 70th Street East in Lancaster, was in an open area and did not threaten any structures.

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A second Los Angeles city building inspector caught up in a federal probe of bribery in the building department formally admitted his guilt Monday.

Hugo Joel Gonzalez, 49, of Eagle Rock pleaded guilty to a charge of soliciting and accepting bribes.

Over the course of an FBI investigation that spanned several months last year, Gonzalez accepted $9,000 in cash and wire transfers to his bank account from an FBI informant and an undercover agent.

In exchange, he approved permits for properties he had never inspected and, in some cases, never set foot on, according to court documents.

In at least one case, he asked for $500 to pay "tribute" to another inspector so he could inspect a property outside his area of responsibility, along with a $2,000 bribe for himself.

Another building inspector who was arrested as a result of the same investigation, Raoul Germain, 60, of Altadena entered a guilty plea to the same charge earlier this month.

Both inspectors have been fired.

The FBI informant, who worked for a residential developer with many projects in South Los Angeles, called the problem of bribery in the building department "systemic," according to an affidavit filed in the case.

The Department of Building and Safety has received three subpoenas from a federal grand jury, including one seeking personnel records for at least 11 current and former employees.

Assistant U.S. Atty. Joe Akrotirianakis declined to comment on whether more arrests will be coming.

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The father of actress Lindsay Lohan pleaded not guilty Monday to misdemeanor domestic violence for an alleged assault on his live-in girlfriend.

Michael Lohan, 50, was charged in March with corporal injury to a cohabitant after he allegedly assaulted the woman after they had argued. The victim, whose name was not released by police, suffered minor injuries.

Michael Lohan told Radar Online that his on-again-off, again girlfriend, Kate Majors, attacked him. He faces a maximum sentence of one year in county jail if convicted.

Sheriff's deputies were called to the 8500 block of Holloway Avenue on a domestic dispute report. Michael Lohan was later arrested near the West Hollywood sheriff's station when deputies saw him walking in the 8800 block of Santa Monica Boulevard.

After being booked, Lohan was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after complaining of "a medical condition not related to the incident," sheriff's officials said in a statement.

His bail was set at $200,000.

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Photo: Michael Lohan in February. Credit: Nick Ut / Associated Press

A 16-year-old Thousand Oaks girl has been hospitalized with serious injuries after she fell from the back of a pickup truck during a teenage prank and was dragged by another vehicle for 100 feet.

The teen was taken to Los Robles Regional Medical Center for treatment shortly after the 1:30 a.m. accident in the 300 block of Massey Street. She has since been moved to another hospital for further treatment, Thousand Oaks police officials said.

The girl was one of six teenagers, four boys and two girls, who vandalized a home with eggs and paint balls, reportedly in retaliation for the egging of another home earlier in the evening, authorities said.

As a pickup truck pulled away from the home, the girl fell from the bed onto the pavement. A car immediately behind the pickup then ran over the girl and dragged her for some time until the 16-year-old male driver realized what had happened and stopped, police said.

All of the teens are 16 or 17. They were not identified because they are minors.

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The day after Los Angeles police arrested a man suspected in the brutal beating of San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow, Stow’s family members expressed appreciation for the Los Angeles Police Department’s work on the case.

“We never gave up hope that this day would come; that the beginning of justice being served would happen,” Stow's sister, Erin Collins, said outside San Francisco General Hospital, where her brother remains hospitalized.  “Our family would like to express our deep gratitude to the LAPD for their exhaustive efforts.”

Stow’s mother described the wave of emotion that hit her when she received a phone call from an LAPD detective Sunday morning alerting her that police had taken a suspect into custody.  “My heart just dropped,” Ann Stow said.  “It was a very emotional day.  We are very excited that this piece of the puzzle, one of the pieces, has been put in place.”

Photos: The beating of Bryan Stow

After two months chasing hundreds of leads in the high-profile case, LAPD officers arrested 31-year-old Giovanni Ramirez following an early morning operation at the East Hollywood apartment building where Ramirez had been living recently. Police believe the documented gang member is one of two men who attacked Stow, 42, in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium on March 31 after rival teams played their season opening game. 

Stow, a father of two, suffered brain damage in the attack.  He has recently begun to open his eyes, but his long-term recovery is far from certain, doctors have said.

Investigators on Monday were continuing to search for the second assailant, as well as the woman who witnesses said drove the men from the stadium.

With the attack garnering intense national scrutiny, Los Angeles police officials put 20 detectives on the case -- an extraordinary amount of resources. Together, they worked over 6,000 hours on the case and chased nearly 650 tips. 

A 13-year-old boy was arrested Monday by the California Highway Patrol after he allegedly stole a car and led officers on a pursuit in Long Beach with an 8-year-old passenger.

Both occupants were taken to a hospital but were not seriously injured in the incident, which was reported to police by a motorist who saw both children in the car on surface streets in Long Beach.

Authorities were trying to determine to whom the vehicle belonged. The call was routed to the CHP instead of Long Beach police because many 911 calls from cellphones are handled by the CHP.

It was not clear how long the 13-year-old had been driving the car before his exploits were reported to authorities, but the chase eventually ended around 10:20 a.m. when the boy was travelling down Atlantic Avenue and collided with the curb near Armando Drive.

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Photo: The car that was crashed, allegedly by a 13-year-old boy in Long Beach. Credit: KTLA-TV Channel 5