Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:27 PM EDT
Federal agents raided 10 marijuana clinics Wednesday, the same day city leaders introduced a measure calling for an end to the crackdown on the dispensaries allowed under state law.
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Wed Jul 18, 2007 12:51 AM EDT
Anti-gang legislation and police crackdowns are failing so badly that they are strengthening the criminal organizations and making U.S. cities more dangerous, according to a report being released Wednesday.
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Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:06 PM EDT
A mother charged with driving her 14-year-old son and six other juveniles to a skate park so they could attack another teenager pleaded not guilty Tuesday to murder.
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Mon Jun 11, 2007 9:43 AM EDT
One day Paris Hilton is screaming for her mommy as she is cuffed and taken to the pokey in a reckless driving case. The next, she's the model of magnanimity, saying she wouldn't appeal her 45-day sentence and that she is "learning and growing" from her time behind bars.
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Fri May 11, 2007 12:20 PM EDT
Firefighters turned back flames that threatened Santa Catalina Island's main city and some residents planned to return to their homes Friday after thousands were forced to evacuate a day earlier.
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Sun May 6, 2007 10:17 PM EDT
The highest ranking police official at the scene of a violent clash between officers and people at an immigration rally was demoted Monday, and his second-in-command was transferred.
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Sat Mar 10, 2007 2:17 PM EST
Federal agents trailed Sparky Rose as he drove a Porsche Carrera convertible to his medical marijuana clinic. Under California law, clinics are supposed to dispense marijuana just to seriously ill people and clinic owners are to get only "reasonable compensation." But to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the sports car suggested that Rose might be pocketing big money from his purportedly nonprofit clinic, New Remedies Cooperative.
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Tue Feb 27, 2007 2:05 AM EST
The "Mona Lisa" of baseball memorabilia, an almost mint condition 1909 Honus Wagner tobacco card, arrived in Los Angeles on Tuesday in the company of an armed guard but without its new owner, a mysterious Southern California collector who shelled out most of a record $2.35 million for it.
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Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:52 PM EDT
While crews made progress on a wildfire that killed four firefighters, evacuees began returning to their homes — often to find nothing left.
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Fri Oct 27, 2006 4:57 PM EDT
As flames roared through the canyons of Southern California, authorities increased the reward to $500,000 Friday for the arrest of the arsonist responsible for the deaths of four firefighters in the nation's worst such tragedy in five years.
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Sun Oct 22, 2006 1:58 PM EDT
The early morning light reveals a no loitering sign and a half-dozen people sleeping beneath it in tents on the Skid Row sidewalk.
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Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:43 PM EDT
A Swedish businessman who authorities say crashed a stolen Ferrari sports car worth $1.5 million on Pacific Coast Highway turned down a plea deal Monday that would have had him spend two years and four months in prison.
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Thu Sep 21, 2006 7:30 AM EDT
An elderly man whose car roared through a farmers market, hitting more than 70 people and killing 10, told police he did everything he could to stop, according to a tape recording of the interview.
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Wed Aug 2, 2006 5:50 PM EDT
Mel Gibson is only the latest celebrity to find trouble on an infamous stretch of the scenic Pacific Coast Highway. A wild-eyed Nick Nolte was immortalized in a 2002 mug shot taken after he was caught weaving along the road under the influence of the drug GHB.
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Tue Aug 1, 2006 6:30 PM EDT
Mel Gibson's Tuesday apology for an anti-Semitic rant after his drunken driving arrest came several days too late, celebrity crisis management experts say.
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Tue Aug 1, 2006 10:59 AM EDT
The deputy who arrested Mel Gibson on suspicion of drunken driving said Monday that he feels bad for damage to the star's reputation but hopes Gibson thinks twice before drinking and getting behind the wheel.
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Thu May 11, 2006 4:18 AM EDT
The sight of a sleek BMW emerging from a garage below one of downtown's new snazzy buildings scares Michael Reed a lot more than the junkies, pickpockets and prostitutes of nearby Skid Row.
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