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San Francisco 'landlords from hell' agree to prison terms
SAN FRANCISCO — A software engineer and his real estate agent wife who terrorized their tenants in a twisted attempt to force them out are back after fleeing to Italy, and each has accepted a four-year-plus prison sentence and two strikes, Dist....
Tags: Crimes, Trials, Punishment, International Law, Prisons
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Teacher charged with murder in wife's stabbing death in West Hills
Los Angeles County prosecutors charged an elementary school teacher Wednesday with one count of murder in his wife's stabbing death, the district attorney's office said. The district attorney also charged Michael Rodney Kane, 46, with one count of...
Tags: Murder, Los Angeles Unified School District, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Prosecution
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Assembly reverses course on open records limits
SACRAMENTO — Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles) said his house would take up an amended version of a major budget bill on Thursday without the proposed limits on public access to open records. If the measure passes the Assembly and...
Tags: California Public Records Act, Jerry Brown, Crime, Law and Justice, Freedom of Information Laws, Budgets and Budgeting
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Ex-USC professor to return to L.A. to face child sex charges
A former USC professor who was indicted in sex crimes against children overseas was expected to arrive in Los Angeles as early as Wednesday night after he was captured in a coastal town in Mexico, federal authorities told The Times. Walter Lee Williams,...
Tags: FBI, Teachers, Mexico, Abusive Behavior, Police Investigations
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Judge: Did Jackson's attorney 'flip off' AEG lawyer?
Opposing attorneys in civil suits usually get along fine, no matter how angry their clients are with each other. Not so in the Michael Jackson wrongful death case. On Monday, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Yvette Palazuelos called the...
Tags: Propofol (drug), AEG, Conrad Murray, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers
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Brown poised to OK temporary limits on public records law
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown indicated that he would support protecting public access to government records in a constitutional amendment to be voted on next fall, but still supports temporarily weakening the law that ensures public access to...
Tags: Government, Jerry Brown, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges
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Chris Brown cites 1st Amendment in fight over murals
Scary monsters adorning the outside of singer Chris Brown's Hollywood Hills home are his personal art and he isn't about to give up his 1st Amendment right to expression because of a city citation, his attorney said. Mark Geragos, the singer's attorney,...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Arts, Chris Brown, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice
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Have California lawmakers earned their new 5% pay raises?
Gov. Jerry Brown and members of the Legislature are getting pay raises. The little-known California Citizens Compensation Commission voted Wednesday to permit 5% salary increases for all statewide elected officials, the 80 members of the Assembly and...
Tags: Elections, Voting, Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control, Judges
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FBI uses drones inside U.S. for spying, director says
WASHINGTON — FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III testified Wednesday that the controversial National Security Agency surveillance program "has been a contributing factor, one dot among many dots" for tracking terrorist plots, and he admitted for...
Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Barack Obama, FBI, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Terrorism
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Eric Garcetti wants state lawmakers to reverse course on records law
SACRAMENTO — Los Angeles Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti said he opposed a move by Gov. Jerry Brown and Sacramento Democrats to limit the scope of state open records laws. Garcetti, who joined the top executives of California’s largest cities in a...
Tags: Elections, Government, Jerry Brown, Crime, Law and Justice, Freedom of Information Laws
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Mexico City mayor under fire over disappearances of 12
MEXICO CITY — Miguel Angel Mancera, the former top prosecutor in Mexico's capital, rode his crime-fighting reputation to the mayor's office, promising voters a superior level of safety as the cornerstone of a revitalized metropolis. But six months...
Tags: Elections, Malcolm X, U.S. Department of State, Organized Crime, Mexico
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Effort to protect California egg law in House farm bill fails
WASHINGTON—Congress to California: Here’s bit of egg on your face. A bipartisan group of lawmakers failed to kill a provision in the farm bill that blocks California from requiring that eggs imported into the state come from hens who have...Tags: Elections, Steve King, Dianne Feinstein, Parties and Movements, Debbie Stabenow
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