Steven Cuevas

San Bernardino has officially filed for bankruptcy protection, three weeks after city leaders approved it. Late Wednesday, the city filed an emergency petition.

“The goal of a Chapter 9 filing is for the municipality to emerge with a successful plan of adjustment to restructure its debt,” said Councilman Van Johnson

San Bernardino's chief of police says his department and county authorities are looking into allegations of wrongdoing in some city departments.

A San Bernardino city councilman and police chief plan to hold a town hall meeting Thursday night to discuss the city’s ongoing budget and bankruptcy crisis.

San Bernardino, still reeling from Tuesday night’s decision to seek bankruptcy protection, is facing another bombshell: A cryptic accusation by the city attorney that San Bernardino officials have been covering up deep deficits for years.

The city is looking at $166-million in salary, benefits and other costs, but it’s got $40 million less in revenue.

The San Bernardino City Council has given the go-ahead to the city attorney to prepare the paperwork for a bankruptcy filing.

The city is $45 million in the hole — despite laying off nearly a quarter of its workers in the last four years and slashing city services.

A Riverside judge has set an October trial date for 11-year-old boy Joseph Hall, accused of killing his white supremacist father last year.

A federal jury has convicted a former Marine from Hemet of illegally possessing a machine gun that may have belonged to a member of Saddam Hussein’s royal guard.

Rodney King’s family, friends and a host of civil rights leaders and celebrities remembered the "gentle giant."

A public memorial for Rodney King will be held Saturday at Forest Lawn cemetery in the Hollywood Hills after the man who sparked the L.A. riots died two weeks ago.