CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / LOS ANGELES
A high school basketball coach was charged Friday with crimes for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old girl.
Erik Ross, 43, an assistant boys’ basketball coach at Franklin High School, was arrested Wednesday by Glendale police and charged with 12 crimes. He also coached a girls’ youth basketball team, and the alleged victim was a member of an opposing squad. She was not a student at Franklin.
-- Jason Song
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