Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was the target of an anonymous report that police determined was false.
A woman testified she saw her father, a defendant in the murder trial, repeatedly drop Anthony Avalos on the floor, and the boy appeared to be dead when she saw him two days later.
Anthony Avalos' teacher described the boy as "everyone's best friend." She noted that he penned a letter to her in which he wrote, "I just want to stay with you forever, but I can't."
A coroner testified Tuesday that a Lancaster boy who died of alleged abuse by his mother and her ex-boyfriend had severe blunt force injuries to his brain.
A UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital pediatrician testified Monday that a Lancaster boy who died of alleged physical abuse by his mother and her boyfriend was extremely malnourished when he got to the hospital, describing him as "skin and bones."
A man who's charged along with his live-in girlfriend in her son's death acknowledged to investigators that he had disciplined the boy by hitting him with a belt, slapping him and pushing him to the floor in their Lancaster apartment.