An ex-Mexican Mafia leader serving life in prison for murder was escorted by Los Angeles officers to speak at a gathering of police chiefs and business leaders, prompting criticism from the mayor’s office and an acknowledgement of mistakes from the chief of police Thursday. Rene “Boxer” Enriquez gave a PowerPoint …
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BOSTON – Federal authorities say Massachusetts child welfare officials discriminated against a young mother with a mild developmental disability when they took her daughter into state custody two days after she was born. The Justice Department and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in a recent joint investigation, said …
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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – The owners of the mountain cabin where rogue ex-Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner holed himself up during a deadly gun battle with deputies will be paid $200,000. San Bernardino County and Palmdale resident Candace Martin and her son Eric Funnell agreed to the settlement in …
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To watch “The Talking Points Memo” in the Screening Room click here. We were offered the first cable interview on this new Kennedy book, the one that says JFK, Jr.’s marriage was troubled. I turned it down, even though the subject usually brings high ratings. Very simply, there’s nothing important …
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STUART, Fla. – Authorities say an overloaded SUV carrying 12 relatives crashed over the weekend on Florida’s Turnpike, claiming three lives. Sgt. Mark Wysocky with the Florida Highway Patrol says a blown tired caused the 2006 Ford Expedition to overturn Saturday in Martin County, on central Florida’s Atlantic Coast. Troopers …
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PLACERVILLE, Calif. – A 95-year-old Northern California man has become the world’s oldest active pilot. The Sacramento Bee (http://bit.ly/1yuDpQR ) reported Tuesday that Guinness World Record keepers confirmed that a flight last month by Peter Weber Jr. qualified him for the record book. Weber was 95 years, 4 months and …
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WEST HARTFORD, Conn. – A husband and wife have been stabbed with a sword in a domestic dispute at a Connecticut water pipe smoking lounge. Police identify the injured couple as George Ayoub and Najeh Frehi. Ayoub owns the 1001 Arabian Nights Hookah Lounge in West Hartford, where he was …
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LOS ANGELES – The police chief for the Port of Los Angeles has been charged with corruption in an alleged kickback and bribery scheme. Ronald Jerome Boyd was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on 16 counts of corruption, lying to FBI agents, tax evasion and failing to file …
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LOS ANGELES – A California appeals court says police don’t have to turn over records of license plates that are electronically scanned. The unanimous ruling Wednesday by the 2nd District Court of Appeal rejected a request by advocacy groups for records from the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles …
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The campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara was briefly locked down Monday night after police said two people were shot and a third person was assaulted in the same neighborhood where a man staged a killing rampage last year. Santa Barbara County fire Capt. Dave Zaniboni told the …
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