THE 58-YEAR-OLD KOREAN-AMERICAN storeowner was talking to his sister on the telephone when his wife frantically interrupted him. Two teenagers had just stolen five cans of spray paint from their discount store in a Filipinotown mini-mall. In-Taek Kwon put down the phone and rushed outside to confront the shoplifters. While......
Shayne Allyn Ziska didn’t want a jury trial. He thought the ways of his former world, as a $66,000-a-year guard at Chino's state prison, too complex for 12 men and women to understand. He preferred leaving it to a man in a black robe to decide whether all the bad......
WHAT WOULD YOU CALL a well-meaning employee at a law firm handling Diebold’s legal strategies who leaks key documents outlining problems with voting machines to the secretary of state and a newspaper reporter? If you’re Steve Cooley, L.A. County’s district attorney, you’d call him a thief and charge him with......
MICHAEL “THE BOUNTY” HUNTER was considered one of the toughest heavyweight boxers in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He fought at a time when champions Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis ruled the ring. Although he never faced them for the heavyweight title, Hunter won his share of......
WITH A HEARSE PARKED IN THE BACKGROUND, celebrity attorney Debra Opri talked about the death of Tyrone Danell Brooks. A small group of reporters listened outside Bethel AME Church in South Los Angeles as Opri — flanked by Brooks’ grandmother, Ethel Brooks, his girlfriend, Christina Smith, and the couple’s 18-month-old......
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Stanley Tookie Williams didn’t go alone. On December 13, the same day he died, more than 50 people met with less ceremonious deaths in Los Angeles County. Here are accounts of some of their passings, taken from the annals of the Los Angeles County Department of the Coroner.Michael Edward Baser,......
Photo By Andrew NeuhuesOn a recent Sunday, the pews at Hollywood First Presbyterian Church’s morning service are barely half full. Sermons and prayers beseeching God and members to heal the “split in the life of our church” appear to have been rejected. The pastor now talks of the dire need......
Number of commercial casinos in the U.S. pre–Hurricane Katrina: 445 Number of casinos post-Katrina: 429 Number of states that operate casinos: 11 Number of states that have some form of legalized gambling: 48 Amount commercial casinos generated in gross gaming revenue in 2004: $29 billion Percentage increase since the year......
A coroner’s report concluded that the 24-year-old son of renowned defense attorney Robert Shapiro died last month from an accidental overdose of Ecstasy two days after he had to be carried from a Hollywood party. Brent Edward Shapiro attended the USC-Arizona football game on October 8 and that evening went......
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