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1-800-GET-THIN is sued by former workers
Workers at weight-loss surgery centers affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN ad campaign persuaded patients to have medically unnecessary surgeries and billed insurance companies for procedures that were never performed, a new lawsuit alleges.
Two women who...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Concerts, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Trials
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Suspicion in Mexico's Sinaloa cartel
Last of four parts
Reporting from Calexico, Calif., and Badiraguato, Mexico
The towering iron gates opened onto a palm-lined driveway that led past the family church, a twisting water slide and two man-made lakes, one stocked with fish, the other with...Tags: Illegal Immigrants, Mexico, Punishment, Prosecution, Trials
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Flying high for the Sinaloa drug cartel
John Charles Ward would take flight in the half-light before dawn, when he could race down the runway without headlights and ascend into the cloaking embrace of an overcast sky. This feature requires that JavaScript be enabled and the Flash plug-in be...Tags: Justice System, Richard Nixon, Government, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Mexico
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L.A. Noir: 'The Gangster Squad'
In Warner Bros.' upcoming action drama "The Gangster Squad," based on a series of Los Angeles Times articles, Josh Brolin plays John O'Mara, a Los Angeles police officer in an elite unit devoted to cleaning up the city's criminal element, specifically...Tags: Movies, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi, Drama (genre), Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.
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Paramount theme park set to debut in Spain in 2015
Los Angeles Times staff writerThe $1.5 billion Paramount Park in Spain hopes to rival Disneyland Paris as a European tourist destination when the movie theme park debuts in spring 2015. > Photos: Paramount Park Murcia theme park in Spain Located on the Mediterranean coast about...Tags: Air and Space Accidents, Harry Potter (fictional character), Europe, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Entertainment
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Stories that grabbed us in 2011: Rogues, thieves, porn and more
Nation NowThe most-read stories of the year at latimes.com included ones about a devastating earthquake in Japan and another about Arnold Schwarzenegger. Investigative news pieces were also among the most-read stories, including a look at the feared Sinaloa drug... -
Right Makes Might
LA Times MagazineHow a dogged civil-rights lawyer, an ex-gangster and a risk-taking LAPD captain helped skirt a Rodney King riot repeat... -
On Location: L.A. feature film production edges up in 2011 while TV dips
Company TownOn location filming in Los Angeles area rose 4% last year, as a rise in feature film production and commercial shoots offset a falloff in TV filming on streets and noncertified soundstages.... -
Maximum-security prison is no place for a pot stash, woman finds
Nation NowA Louisiana woman is arrested for allegedly trying to bring her pot stash into prison. Strange as it seems, similar attempts have been made before.... -
Former drug kingpin pleads guilty to racketeering, conspiracy
L.A. NOWFormer drug kingpin Benjamin Arellano Felix pleaded guilty on Wednesday to federal racketeering and conspiracy charges, marking the end of a decade-old case targeting what was once Mexico’s most powerful organized crime group.... -
2 wounded on Venice Boardwalk in suspected gang shooting
L.A. NOWTwo people were shot on the Venice Boardwalk in an apparent gang-related attack that rocked the popular destination with mulitple gunshots, police said Wednesday night.... -
Suspect in parole agent shooting involved in 2002 SWAT standoff
L.A. NOWA parolee apprehended Wednesday night on suspicion of shooting a parole officer after an hours-long manhunt was involved in a standoff with SWAT officers in the same general area in 2002, law enforcement authorities told The Times....
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