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Fugitive's rant puts focus on evolving LAPD legacy
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fugitive ex-Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner's claim in an online "manifesto" that his career was undone by racist colleagues conspiring against him comes at a time when it's widely held that the police department has...Tags: Racism, Civil Rights, Justice and Rights, Gang Activity, American Civil Liberties Union
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Artist Hasan Elahi meticulously documents life after FBI investigation
A rumpled pile of sheets. A Bloody Mary on an airline tray. Bags of mustard greens from a Korean grocery store. Gas station pumps, battered street signs, a steamed crab. These are among the everyday images encountered by artist and University of...
Tags: Arts, Media Industry, Teaching and Learning, Justice System, Tampa
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame listens to us, inducts Rush. How'd we do on other predictions?
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGRush’s non-induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has been one of the institution’s biggest criticisms. Now the argument has been taken away. Rush's Geddy Lee at Allentown Fair in 2010 Hall of Fame voters listened to us,...... -
Altadena Junction: Top Stories of the Year, Part I
In the first of a two-part look at the stories that had a lasting impact on Altadena in 2012, here are a few that might not seem obvious. Next week, we’ll highlight the most important stories of the year. Saving Lower Millard Canyon: Home to...Tags: Brooklyn (New York City)
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Connelly's Bosch still an original after all these years
"The Black Box" By Michael Connelly. Little, Brown, 416 pages, $27.99 In 1992, Michael Connelly hit the ground running with his debut “The Black Echo,” which introduced LAPD detective Harry Bosch. That novel won the Edgar Award for best...
Tags: Literature, Arts and Culture, Crime, Law and Justice, Michael Connelly, Los Angeles Riots (1992)
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Detective has been good to his creator
Special to Tribune NewspapersIt's been two decades since the maverick Los Angeles homicide detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch made his debut in Michael Connelly's first novel, "The Black Echo." In 18 novels over that span, the hard-charging, short-tempered, fiercely independent Bosch...Tags: Entertainment, Crime (genre), Crime, Law and Justice, Michael Connelly, Los Angeles Police Department
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: On the death of a hapless icon and his question that had to be asked
Leonard PittsThere was always something hapless about Rodney King. He entered the nation's consciousness -- and its conscience -- as a shambling drunk, an unemployed black construction worker who tried to outrun L.A. police rather than be arrested for drunk driving....Tags: Racism, Civil Rights, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Los Angeles Riots (1992)
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New Baltimore Police Commissioner Batts seeks fresh start
Baltimore's next police commissioner is walking through a west-side neighborhood with some of the community's most engaged residents, but that's not enough for Anthony W. Batts. He wants to talk to a teacher sipping coffee on her porch. He jogs across...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Media Industry, Trials, Anthony Barksdale, Laura Richardson
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How Heart, Rush and the rest of Rock Hall of Fame's new nominees stack up
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGJust nine days before it plays Sands Bethlehem Event Center, 1970s and ‘80s female rockers Heart has been nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But the big news out of today’s announcement of nominees is...... -
KEVIN OLLIE: A Street-Wise Basketball Nomad Is At Home At UConn
The Hartford Courant— Long before the one-year audition, long before the nomadic decade of 10-day contracts strung together in the NBA, and long before his first meeting with Jim Calhoun, Kevin Ollie was learning the art of survival in the most real sense of that word....Tags: Todd MacCulloch, Golden State Warriors, Howie Dickenman, United States Basketball League Incorporated, Anglicanism
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Ivey Lane's evolution: From Rodney King to Trayvon Martin
Two decades ago, a largely white jury from a Los Angeles suburb lit a perilously short racial fuse with two words: "Not guilty." Four white Los Angeles police officers were freed on charges of excessive force in the brutal beating of Rodney King —...
Tags: Racism, NAACP, Poverty, Civil Rights, Romance (genre)
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Connie Rice, noted police reformer, hired by city
Q13 FOX News political analystShe sued the City of Los Angeles to force big changes at the LA Police Department and now she's coming to Seattle. Mayor Mike McGinn this week hired a well-known Southern California lawyer to help oversee police reforms at the Seattle Police Department....Tags: Justice System, Politics, American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights, Crime, Law and Justice
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