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  • Blogs

    May 21, 2013

    LAPD Officer Arrested For Lewd Conduct With Minors, Cops Say

    Updated at the bottom with the officer charged. First posted at 4:02 p.m. Monday. An LAPD officer was arrested today on suspicion of lewd conduct in a case involving underage victims, authorities told the Weekly. The officer was arrested in the Santa Clarita area, a sheriff's official said. Accord ... More >>

  • News

    April 11, 2013

    Lucky to Be Alive

    A couple's devastating encounter with Lee Baca's COPS HIT deputies

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2013

    Attorney Stephen Beecher Slipped Heroin To Jailed Client In Greeting Card, Prosecutors Say

    It's not the first time this has happened. An L.A. County Sheriff's deputy even smuggled drugs into the jail using a burrito as cover (it didn't work). Today prosecutors alleged that attorney Stephen Beecher tried to smuggle heroin via a greeting card intended for a client behind bars at the North ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2012

    Ka Pasasouk, Suspect In Northridge Murders, Lucked Out Of Prison Time, Had Psych Eval

    Ka Pasasouk, the man police allege pulled the trigger in last weekend's horrific Northridge quadruple homicide, was released from prison and placed into the hands of local probation officials even though state corrections authorities were concerned enough about his behavior behind bars to subject hi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2012

    4.4 Near Yorba Linda: Earthquake Weather?

    UPDATE: Shaky days here in L.A. Another 4.5 quake hit at 9:33 a.m., centered near the same place as last night's quake. See more at the bottom. First posted at 11:37 p.m. Tuesday See also: *8.6 Quake Possible in Southern California? A little baby earthquake jolted parts of Southern California toni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2011

    SoCal Residents Sue L.A. Sheriff for Seizing Their Cars, Jewelry in $7M Raid of 'Criminal Ring'

    Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station via The SignalFrom a video of the "crime" scene.​It was one of the finest raids in the history of the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station. In January 2010, the sheriff's LoJack vehicle-recovery system located a Bobcat that had been stolen from a cemet ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2011

    I-5 Freeway At L.A. Grapevine Still Closed After Night From Wintery Hell

    Bakersfield NowNot a good start for weather in 2011​What a depressing way to start a brand-new year of the infamous Los Angeles commute. All those holiday stragglers who waited until Sunday night to drive home -- hoping to avoid the mass SoCal exodus/influx, not realizing it was really this z ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2010

    (UPDATED With L.A. Road Closures, Rain Aftermath) L.A. Readies Itself For West Coast Rainpocalypse To Rival SnowLoko

    PHOTO BY TED SOQUILast Wednesday in Los Angeles​Updated after the jump: Here we go again. Pacific Coast Highway closes, the I-5 floods and more. Originally posted Dec. 28 at 8:30 a.m. We were gloating yesterday as the East Coast took a beating from the weather gods, but karma's a bitch: It's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2010

    Castaic Jail Escapees Found (Updated)

    ​(Updated: The pair was reportedly found in the area shortly after 5 p.m. after a resident reported they asked him for clothes). Sheriff's deputies are searching the Castaic area for two inmates who escaped overnight from the North County Correctional Facility.Winder Barrios (left) and Jose A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2010

    Real-life "Lost" Mystery: Crew T-shirt Found on Anonymous Corpse

    ​Attention cast and crew of the ABC show "Lost":The L.A. County Coroner's office is trying to identify a body found last month in a wooded area in Castaic. So far the biggest clue is that the young man was wearing a "Lost" crew T-shirt from Season 2 (2005-2006). On the back of the shirt is a pictu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    Swine Flu Outbreak at Pitchess Jail

    The L.A. County Sheriff's Department has confirmed there are 20 cases of swine flu among prisoners at the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic. According to Associated Press, LASD spokesman Steve Whitmore said Wednesday that the first flu case was confirmed two weeks ago at the Men's Central Jail ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2009

    Freak Wildfires Hit County

    It's bad enough when an Amtrak tour bus catches fire on I-5 and is destroyed by flames. Worse, however, would be if the blaze then sets off yet another Castaic-area wildfire -- which is what happened today. According to Associated Press, all nine bus passengers and their luggage, plus the driver, sa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Look Homeward, Antonio In his Wednesday inaugural speech, a humbled Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa pledged to recommit himself to serving Los Angeles, promising to focus on "deadlines over headlines." L.A. Daily NewsSouthwest Headed South? The Autry National Center of the American West's proposal to tra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    May Day Cops Dodge Bullet No LAPD officers involved in the 2007 May Day melee in MacArthur Park will be fired, although Chief Bill Bratton had called for four terminations. L.A. TimesCut the Comedy Birmingham High School administrators will be disciplined for allowing Sacha Baron Cohen to use the sc ... More >>

  • News

    November 1, 2007

    Air Inferiority

    Is “Run!” the new strategy against firestorms on California's urban fringe?

  • News

    June 14, 2007

    Baca's Law

    Federal suit claims Baca hasn’t been nearly as nice to those who dare challenge him as he was to Paris Hilton

  • News

    September 21, 2006

    From the Hoods to the Woods

    How an O.G. gangbanger turned himself into a hardcore firefighter

  • News

    February 16, 2006

    Jailhouse Hope

    Community leaders and the sheriff talk peace and the riots’ cause

  • News

    February 9, 2006

    Supermax Explodes

    An inmate’s wife and a sheriff come to terms with a riot

  • News

    October 2, 2003

    Zen and the Art of Sheriffing

    Lee Baca’s Khaki Revolution

  • News

    October 17, 2002

    Passport to Hell

    A man from Kuwait meets the War on Terror in Long Beach

  • News

    November 29, 2001

    To the Super Max

    A prison diary

  • News

    April 26, 2001

    Richard’s Bracelet

    Disgraced Alatorre must stay in his home

  • News

    December 30, 1999

    Bad News

    L.A.'s Low-Definition TV Journalism

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