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Drug conviction mars recovering addict's rental application
Question: I started drinking alcohol and using drugs when I was in high school, and I kept it up until recently. I didn't think I had a problem because I have maintained good grades in school and held a steady job. Last year, I was stopped by the police...Tags: Criminals, Drug Use, Alcohol Addiction, Recreational Substance Use, Drug Trafficking
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L.A. gang members found guilty in major racketeering case
L.A. NOWIn 2005, among the ranks of a shadowy organization reigning the streets near MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, a business decision was made. Building on an already highly profitable drug-dealing operation specializing in crack cocaine, they would tap a new..... -
4 gang members found guilty in case stemming from baby's death
In 2005, leaders of a gang that sold crack and other drugs near MacArthur Park decided to add a new business venture: extorting the vendors who crowd the streets each evening, selling clothes, pirated DVDs and electronics to supplement a hardscrabble...Tags: Criminals, Justice System, Drug Trafficking, Trials, Murder
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Dream Street USA, South L.A.
"People say South L.A. is in the condition it's in because people don't take care of the neighborhood," Joanne Kim told supporters of the Community Coalition. One look at the residential streets just off burned-out commercial corridors puts the lie to...
Tags: Substance Abuse
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Seizing the post-riot moment
In addition to 1992, let's remember 1985, when Los Angeles was cocky. Twenty years had passed since the notorious Watts riots, and civic leaders congratulated themselves on what their city had become since then. They had just wrapped up the wildly...
Tags: Gang Activity, Prisons, Crime, Law and Justice, Shootings, World War II (1939-1945)
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For LAPD's chief, a transformation
In 1992, I was a young Los Angeles Police Department sergeant assigned to the Internal Affairs Division and had just returned home after a long shift only to see on television the Florence and Normandie assaults, the beating of Reginald Denny and fires...
Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, Civil Unrest, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Reginald Denny, Crime, Law and Justice
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The intertwining lives of a man and his San Francisco neighborhood
SAN FRANCISCO —The line for a free breakfast snaked around Glide United Memorial Methodist Church. Police busted two men in a restaurant doorway. Panhandlers provided a neighborhood soundtrack.
It was Sunday morning in the Tenderloin, and Mark...Tags: Architecture, Heroin, Photography and Video, Lifestyle and Leisure, Music
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Keith Haring, Pop star and lawbreaker, gets a Google Doodle
Keith Haring, recipient Friday of a Google Doodle, was among a group of art school students who considered themselves Pop Art heirs to Andy Warhol. But although Haring was dead by age 31, the artist made his own imprint, and it wasn't on a soup can....
Tags: Artists, Andy Warhol, Milan (Italy), World War II (1939-1945), Arts and Culture
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Supreme Court to weigh crack cocaine sentences
WASHINGTON — Nearly two years ago, President Obama signed into law a "fair sentencing" act to reduce the long prison terms meted out to people who were caught with small amounts of crack cocaine. But the law did not make clear whether it should...Tags: Kankakee, Justice System, Punishment, U.S. Department of Justice, Politics
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Supreme Court told unfair crack sentences may number in thousands
WASHINGTON — A Justice Department lawyer warned the Supreme Court on Tuesday there may be thousands of crack cocaine defendants sentenced to long prison terms under a law that Congress repealed two years ago as racially biased and unfair. Deputy...
Tags: Kankakee, Justice System, Antonin Scalia, Punishment, Defendants
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LAPD goes from longtime oppressor to community partner
What LAPD Sgt. Rick Arteaga remembers most about the first night of the riots is a curbside history lesson at the intersection of Manchester and Vermont.
Six police officers were trying to face down 400 angry residents. The Los Angeles Police...Tags: Social Issues, Gang Activity, Los Angeles Police Department, Racism, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Whitney Houston: Cocaine worsened heart problems, officials say
L.A. NOWSinger Whitney Houston's use of cocaine "exacerbated her heart condition" and played a role in her accidental drowning in the bathtub of a Beverly Hills hotel suite, Los Angeles County Chief Coroner Investigator Craig Harvey said. The long-awaited autopsy...
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