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Updated below. Lacey wins, thanks Cooley. Jackson concedes, boasts about defeating Carmen Trutanich in June. Jackie Lacey leads Alan Jackson by double digits in early returns in the race for L.A. County District Attorney.With vote-by-mail ballots counted, Lacey was up 56-44 percent. As precinct ... More >>
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Everybody knows who the Democrats will nominate for president this week. But who will they nominate in four years, or 12? Chances are those folks are in Charlotte, and party regulars are looking for them. Away from the TV cameras, a convention can resemble an NFL scouting combine, as everyone hunts ... More >>
The county updated its vote tally this afternoon, and it confirmed what we already knew: Carmen Trutanich crashed and burned on Tuesday night. With 59,000 extra ballots counted, Trutanich's margin of defeat is unchanged. He's still in third by 8,000 votes, and only 117,000 votes remain to be counted ... More >>
From to a 70-year-old woman teaching others how to use medical marijuana to a man dedicated to saving the sea lions, these Angelenos prove that do-goodery can be vastly more interesting, creative, and fulfilling than writing a monthly charity check or two. Check out our entire People 2012 issue her ... More >>
One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. Everywhere Denise Hunter goes, she's mistaken for Michelle Obama. "I was in San Francisco at a meeting," she says, perched in a fine Sunday pantsuit on a couch in a back room ... More >>
Update, Thursday: Attorney general declines to investigate. More below.D.A. candidate Carmen Trutanich was caught last week in a fib about being shot at by gang members when he was a young prosecutor in 1985. The L.A. Times' Jack Leonard discovered that in fact, there were no gang members, and no gu ... More >>
LAUSD's finest -- campus cops -- eff things up again.Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck tonight accused LAUSD campus cop Jeff Stenroos of staging his own shooting shooting himself near El Camino Real High School last week, creating a fake story about a gunman shooting him -- and setting of ... More >>
Governor Jerry BrownUpdate: Former state Sen. Gloria Romero accuses Compton Unified of strong-arming parents to stop charter school. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and another huge law firm join Parent Trigger effort pro bono. Things get increasingly heavy in Compton today when the McKinley Parent ... More >>
Steve Cooley is expected to back Jackie Lacey to succeed himThe race for district attorney is getting more interesting, as two African-American women are launching campaigns to succeed Steve Cooley in 2012.Jackie Lacey, the number three administrator in the D.A.'s office, filed paperwork on Monda ... More >>
Patrick Range McDonaldLos Angeles Mormon Temple in Westwood in 2008.The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to allow Imperial County officials to defend Proposition 8 in court. Imperial County Board of Supervisors and a deputy clerk sought to overturn an August ruling by U.S. D ... More >>
Had D.A. Steve Cooley been elected attorney general, the odds-on favorite to replace him would have been his third-ranking administrator, Jacquelyn P. Lacey.Lacey, 53, was considered most likely to get Cooley's support for the appointment. She's also a Democrat and an African-American, which woul ... More >>
Photo by Kevin ScanlonSteve CooleyAt a press conference in his office this afternoon, Steve Cooley all but ruled out running for a fourth term as district attorney.But Cooley, fresh off a narrow defeat to Kamala Harris in the race for attorney general, plans to have a big role in choosing his suc ... More >>
Now that Lisa Murkowski has been declared the winner in Alaska, the highest-profile undecided race in the country may be the one for California attorney general.With that, Politico decides to dip in:If Cooley wins, said Republican strategist Adam Mendelsohn, "he'll be No. 1 on the California Repu ... More >>
How did Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, primary physician to Anna Nicole Smith, get acquitted of all charges by a Los Angeles jury and the other two -- Smith's friend Howard K. Stern and psychiatrist Khristine Eroshevich -- get really light convictions? The three were accused by District Attorney Steve ... More >>
Bruce Margolin has defended 25,000 pot cases and Timothy Leary. Now he's primed for ganja tourists and sensimilla spas
Kevin ScanlonSteve CooleyFresh off the only scheduled debate in the attorney general's race, San Francisco D.A. Kamala Harris has released an ad attacking Republican rival Steve Cooley for accepting laundered campaign contributions from a convicted felon.The ad cites this L.A. Weekly story from A ... More >>
Ex-football players with head injuries often end up in the criminal-justice system. The former USC lineman is Exhibit A
Wyoming Attorney General Bruce Salzburg10 states not known for their gay-friendliness are mightily nervous about last month's federal court ruling that deemed California's Proposition 8 to be unconstitutional. Why? If the Proposition 8 decision stands as it goes through the federal appeals ... More >>
Steve CooleyLooks like Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has pretty much ruined this free-ticket racket for everyone. District Attorney Steve Cooley, who is investigating Villaraigosa's ticket scandal, is taking fire from his opponent in the attorney general's race for accepting his own free tickets. Ov ... More >>
Steve Cooley.No surprise here: The union representing Los Angeles Police Department officers has thrown its considerable weight behind the man whose office cops often have to work in harmony with: Republican District Attorney Steve Cooley, who's running for California Attorney General against ... More >>
Steve Cooley.Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley helped to write the official ballot argument against Prop. 19, the November ballot initiative in California that would fully legalize marijuana possession for those 21-and-older, the campaign against the measure announced Thursday. Cool ... More >>
L.A. County D.A. Steve CooleyWith 24 precent of statewide precincts reporting, Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley has won the Republican nomination for California Attorney General, according to the Los Angeles Times. The close, hard-hitting race is turning out to be a landsli ... More >>
In the fight for attorney general, opposing prison for sock stealers is a liability
District Attorney Steve Cooley.While all eyes remain on California's gubernatorial race, particularly on the entertaining sniping between Republicans Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner, the June primary contest for state Attorney General is dishing up its own drama, with the anointed Republican fr ... More >>
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