Chris Vogel

To get drunk or not to get drunk? That be the question. On one hand, there's the vomiting, blackouts and hangovers. On the other hand, there's that shot of courage only booze can deliver, the euphoric drunken chattiness and other social benefits. Guess which one wins......

From the start, it had all the makings of a Three's Company episode - a case of mix-ups and mistaken identities. In June 2010, Los Angeles sheriff's deputies were at a residence in Compton checking up on parolees when they knocked on the door of Duvall Mariano. They were looking......

From the start, the investigation looked suspicious. On July 16, 2007, a fire spread quickly through a two-story strip mall, a block of stores in an Asian neig...

The alleged gang of sheriff's deputies from Men's Central Jail accused of beating up fellow officers at a Christmas party last December in Montebello have dodged a major legal bullet. District Attorney Steve Cooley's office will not prosecute them. Revelations, including that one of the alleged victims admitted throwing the......

As part of Richard Nixon's farewell to the press and the nation, he famously said, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore." But tody, June 17 - the 40th anniversary of Nixon officially declaring a "war on drugs" - is a special exception. For today and tomorrow, folks from......

Angel Mendez of Lancaster was shot 14 times. LA County sheriff's deputies were the triggermen. Mendez says he was fast asleep at his home with his girlfriend last October when suddenly a troop of officers burst into his room, guns blazing. He says they didn't have a warrant or any......

It was about 5 p.m. at Men's Central Jail when sheriff's deputies were getting ready to release temporary inmate Steven Chavez. But as we've seen, bad things can happen at that jail, anytime and in any part of the jail, even the visiting room. Suddenly, says Chavez, and without warning,......