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Letters: Safer with guns
Re "Beliefs on gun crime way off," May 8 How can The Times manage to mention that "some researchers" attribute the significant reduction in gun crime in the United States to the reduced use of lead in gasoline (other causes mentioned were the decline in...Tags: Firearms, Crime, Law and Justice
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Former Dodger Pedro Guerrero has an unexpected new job -- manager
Guess they were right: There’s just no telling. This news would rate just above “Kobe Bryant Gets Fat,” if still trailing “Lindsay Lohan Elected U.S. Senator” in the you’ve-gotta-be-kidding-me department: Pedro...
Tags: Lindsay Lohan, Kobe Bryant, Dodger Stadium
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Gun crime has plunged, but Americans think it's up, says study
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.Gun crime has plunged in the United States since its peak in the middle of the 1990s, including gun killings, assaults, robberies and other crimes, two new studies of government data show. Yet few Americans are aware of the dramatic drop, and more...Tags: Crime Victims, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Crime, Law and Justice, Murder
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LAPD's 'magic number' of 10,000 officers losing some luster
In 1989, then-Los Angeles Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky unveiled an audacious plan to boost the city police force by more than 25% to 10,000 officers. He couldn't have imagined that city leaders would chase that goal for nearly a quarter of a century...
Tags: Wendy Greuel, Antonio Villaraigosa, Richard Riordan, Environmental Issues, Zev Yaroslavsky
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Gun crime has plunged, but Americans think it's up, study says
The number of violent crimes involving guns has plummeted in the last two decades, but more than half of Americans think the opposite is true, according to reports released Tuesday. Killings, assaults, robberies and other crimes involving guns have...
Tags: Science and Technology, Crime, Law and Justice, Murder
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A teen's quest for self-discovery in 'Maya's Notebook'
Whatever happened to magic realism? The question arises when dipping into "Maya's Notebook," Isabel Allende's bruising, cinematically vivid new novel. It's an exercise in gritty realism rather than the fanciful folkloricism that Allende has been known...
Tags: Isabel Allende, FBI, Authors, Arts and Culture, Interpol
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Driver, 37 pounds of coke seized at U.S.-Mexico border
L.A. NOWA Mexican citizen was arrested on suspicion of trying to sneak in nearly 37 pounds of cocaine at a border checkpoint in Calexico, federal authorities said Thursday.... -
Pusha T and Kanye West to rendezvous in Paris
At the end of this month, Virgina trap rap supremo Pusha T will head off with Kanye West to the City of Light in an effort to create what the MC calls something “super, super dark.” Pusha’s well-received mixtape “Wrath of Caine&...
Tags: Michael Jackson, Entertainment, Music, Kanye West, Drugs and Medicines
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Woman accused of taking child porn photos is indicted
L.A. NOWThis post has been corrected. Please see below for details. A North Hills woman who authorities allege plied a young girl with crack cocaine and photographed her having sex with an older man was indicted Tuesday on federal charges of...... -
Turbocharged cars' gas mileage may be lackluster after all
While electric vehicles continue to grab the green-car spotlight, an older technology has quietly emerged as a player in the fuel economy wars: turbocharging. Once the province of performance cars, turbochargers now power economy cars, family sedans and...
Tags: Toyota, Science and Technology, Customs and Tradition, Audi, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Whitney Houston's brother Michael admits starting her on drugs
For years, rumor had it that Bobby Brown had introduced Whitney Houston to drugs — but Michael Houston, one of the singer's two older brothers, has revealed to Oprah Winfrey that the real story was quite different. It's a story that has Michael...
Tags: Bobby Brown, Oprah Winfrey, Whitney Houston, Social Media, Benadryl (drug)
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18 arrested in federal crackdown on gang that operated near USC
L.A. NOWFederal authorities on Thursday announced a sweeping racketeering indictment against a Mexican Mafia-controlled gang that allegedly terrorized the South L.A. neighborhood just north of USC through drugs, extortion, murder, and robberies targeting the...
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