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SoCal Powerlifter Steve Denison Says U.S. Powerlifting Federation Called Him a Child Molester

Steve Denison​There's a mean little feud brewing in the world of competitive power lifting. Sadly, it's not between two swollen-chested iron-pumpers with legs as thick as a child. It's between some of the guys who promote the sport and organize the competitions. And it's apparently gotten quit ... More >>

Matt Fong, Former California Treasurer And Longtime Angeleno, Dies at 57

Matt Fong.​Updated at the bottom with reaction from L.A. County Supervisor Mike Antonovich. Matt Fong, a longtime Angeleno and onetime U.S. Senate hopeful, has died, according to the Sacramento Bee. Fong's mother is beloved Democrat March Fong Eu, who was elected California's Secretary of St ... More >>

War-Hero Poseur Pleads Guilty (No Word On Whether He'll Be Charged For Fashion Crimes)

U.S. Dept. of Justice​It looks like the strange saga of a Southern California man accused by the U.S. Attorney of posing as a war hero -- uniform, Purple Heart, the whole get-up -- is coming to an end: Authorities on Friday announced that 39-year-old Steven Burton has agreed to plead guilty to ... More >>

Today in Photographs: August 14, 1965

​National Guardsmen on alert during the Watts Riots. Members of the unit had earlier shot dead a motorist at 103rd Street and Compton Avenue.Bud Gray, LA Herald-Examiner/LAPL

The Hurt Locker: There Will Be Blasts

Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq War drama is an explosion waiting to happen — in your head

Third Suspect Arrested in Deputy Slaying

The Los Angeles Police Department has arrested a third suspect in the shooting death of an L.A. County Sheriff's Deputy. A fourth man remains at large. "We will bring all those responsible for the murders to justice," said Police Chief William Bratton at a 1 p.m. press conference at Parker Center, ... More >>

Alleged Avenues Gangsters Plead Not Guilty to Cop Killing

Two alleged Avenues gangsters pleaded not guilty in downtown Los Angeles today to capital murder charges stemming from the August 2 shooting of a 27-year-old Los Angeles County Sheriff Deputy as he was preparing to go to work at the Men's Central Jail. Juan Escalante was shot from behind about five ... More >>

Gang Ties that Bind: Drew Street Gangsters Linked to Cop Killing

The murder shocked the conscience of a crime-scarred community. The arrest of two suspects showed the far-reaching influence of a notorious street gang.But revelations that one of the two men accused of murdering a young deputy sheriff belonged to an extended family of criminals, presided over by a ... More >>

The Man in the Mirrored Sunglasses: From El Salvador to D.C.'s Oliver North Hearings, the Weekly Far From Home

Dances with detached strangers

Spike Lee's Miracle at St. Anna: Cheesy

Buffalo-soldier mozzarella

Ajax and Philoctetes in San Diego

The U.S. Marine Corps Discovers the Greeks

Generation Kill: Wired for War

David Simon and Ed Burns shift their focus from Baltimore to Iraq in their new HBO miniseries

Run, Rummy, Run!

Could the Pinochet precedent keep Donald on the lam?

A Coroner's Cross Section

Twenty-three people who died on December 13

Sharing Tookie’s Day: A Coroner’s Cross Section of December 13

Shame. Shame. Shame.

But can Democrats fill the vacuum?

All Eyes On New Orleans

A look at what the rest of the world is saying

Our New Colony

What’s That Sound?

Storming Fort Brag

Military fakes and the people who bust them

Just Deserters?

Soldiers are singing 'O Canada.' Is it the beginning of a Vietnam-like trend?

Reagan Without Tears

Let’s not forget what the Gipper did to America

Who’s on First?

The Baghdad Hand (Over) Job

Reagan Without Tears

Let’s not forget what the Gipper did to America

Making Sense

Jonathan Demme presents Haitian crusader Jean Dominique

Second and Long

Retrial in Inglewood’s videotaped beating case is a test for Steve Cooley

Top Ten Bush Administration Outrages

Hard Lines and Second Thoughts

Earl Morris’ Robert McNamara documentary is half in, half out of the fog

The Killing Years

Death in El Salvador, bloody hands in Washington

Iraq Spins Out of Control

Where are the Democrats and the peace movement?

Occupational Hazards

The peace movement returns

Time for Damage Control

The Bush lies are the least of our worries in Iraq

Last Stand at San Onofre

Visit one of Southern California’s wildest and most famous surf spots — before it gets bulldozed for a toll road

Fascinating Fascism

The Back Story

The detainees

The Back Story

Why we fight

Peace Games

At Vandenberg Air Force Base, protest was just another military exercise

Port in a Storm

Dealing with the polluting ways of world trade

The Busted Megaphone

The long, sometimes silent journey of the L.A. peace movement

Made in America

With pride and ambivalence

Pure War

Letters

The Case for a Cease-fire

Enemy Turf

Ladies and gentlemen, the resident of the White House

Of Carnage and Hope

Independence vote for East Timor follows U.S. complicity in 24 years of killing

Vanessa Beecroft

at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

The War at Home

Local Progressives Talk About Kosovo

Weapons of Mass Distraction

U.S. arms dealing leads Project Censored’s list of the Top 10 underreported stories of 1997

Local anti-war groups struggle to mobilize opposition