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Witness describes pepper spray attack on Walmart shoppers
PORTER RANCH, Calif. (AP) — One shopper says he heard screaming and yelling at a Southern California Walmart -- and moments later, his throat was stinging, and he was "coughing really bad and watering up." Matthew Lopez told the Los Angeles Times...Tags: Witnesses, Walmart, Los Angeles Times, Xbox 360, Crime, Law and Justice
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Durango, Colo., police now allowed to have goatees
DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — Full beards are still banned, but police in the Colorado mountain town of Durango are now allowed to have goatees, though the department won't say why the change was made. The Durango Herald reports that several officers,...Tags: Local Government, Politics, Colorado
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Two wounded in separate shootings near L.A. Coliseum
Two men were wounded in separate shootings near the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum late Friday and early Saturday, police said. A 25-year-old man was shot and wounded while stopped at a traffic light Friday night, police said. About 9:40 p.m, the man...Tags: Shootings, Arrested Development (tv program)
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Oakland police struggle to rebuild — using fewer resources
OAKLAND — It was a quiet evening by this city's standards, and still the police emergency lines were lighting up. As screams rang out behind her, a caller said her neighbor was being beaten. A woman reported that a front door down the street had...
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Two men wounded in LAPD shootings in Sylmar, East Hollywood
Two male suspects were shot and wounded by Los Angeles police officers in confrontations in the San Fernando Valley and in East Hollywood on Friday night, authorities said. The first shooting occured about 9:15 p.m. in Sylmar after police tried to...Tags: Shootings, Arrested Development (tv program)
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16-year-old boy arrested in high school 'sexting' scandal
A 16-year-old boy was arrested Friday on suspicion of distributing nude photos of four teenage girls through Twitter, San Bernardino County sheriff's officials said. The boy, a student at Etiwanda High School in Rancho Cucamonga, was booked into...
Tags: Police Arrests, Twitter, Inc., Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Juvenile Delinquency
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'Lone wolf' faces prison time for alleged bombs, drugs and gun
A West Los Angeles man faces up to nine years in prison after police say they found him with drugs, a gun and a pipe bomb in his car. Robert Cold Wilson was charged Thursday with seven criminal counts: possession of a destructive device on a public...Tags: Trials, Emergency Incidents, Firearms, Punishment, Explosions
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Crime alerts for Valley Glen, Rancho Park, 7 other L.A. neighborhoods
Crime reports are up significantly for the latest week in nine L.A. neighborhoods, according to an analysis of Los Angeles Police Department data by the Los Angeles Times’ Crime L.A. database. Six neighborhoods reported a significant increase in...
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LAPD reformed as federal oversight lifted, city leaders say
Los Angeles leaders say the Los Angeles Police Department has undergone a dramatic transformation since federal oversight of the agency was ordered 12 years ago. The dismissal Wednesday of the so-called consent decree, which arose largely out of the...
Tags: Judges, U.S. Department of Justice, AEG, Justice System, Antonio Villaraigosa
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L.A. Now Live: Discuss LAPD consent-decree impact, what's next
The federal judge who oversaw a dramatic, forced transformation of the Los Angeles Police Department has freed the department from the final vestiges of federal oversight. In a brief, three-line order Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Gary Feess formally...
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Federal judge lifts LAPD consent decree
The federal judge who oversaw a dramatic, forced transformation of the Los Angeles Police Department has freed the department from the final vestiges of federal oversight. In a brief, three-line order Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Gary Feess formally...
Tags: Trials, Judges, U.S. Department of Justice, Justice System, American Civil Liberties Union
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West L.A. man pleads not guilty in bomb-making case
A West Los Angeles man pleaded not guilty Thursday to more than half-a-dozen felony counts related to the Los Angeles Police Department's seizure of more than 17 pipe bombs from his residence Robert Colt Wilson, 29, faces seven criminal counts:...Tags: Trials, Firearms, Punishment
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