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Noel Greenwood dies at 75; former L.A. Times senior editor
Noel Greenwood, a former senior editor at the Los Angeles Times who helped shape local and California coverage as the newspaper outgrew its modest local ambitions and transformed itself into one of national stature, died Sunday at his Santa Barbara home....
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Rodney King, Awards and Prizes, George Skelton, Media Industry
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Dorner's LAPD is on the way out
There won't be a happy ending to Christopher Dorner's quest for vengeance against the Los Angeles Police Department. Nothing justifies his murder of innocents or his threats against LAPD personnel and their families. The only positive thing that can...
Tags: Rodney King, Christopher Dorner, Justice and Rights, William Bratton, Civil Rights
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Anna Deavere Smith wins $300,000 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize
Anna Deavere Smith, famed for creating one-woman, documentary theater pieces about taut social issues in which she portrays multiple people she’s interviewed, has won the $300,000 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, one of the most lucrative awards in...
Tags: Rodney King, Celebrities, Tony Kushner, Bob Dylan, Robert Redford
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LAPD's Parker Center is closed for good
L.A. NOWTop police officials, several elected city officials and a few hundred LAPD employees gathered on the lawn beneath the spare, windowless facade of the downtown building for a brief ceremony before LAPD Chief Charlie Beck symbolically padlocked the front... -
Jenni Rivera's musical family helped popularize Mexican narco-ballads
L.A. NOWJenni Rivera, the Mexican American pop music singer who died in an airplane crash, came from a family that wielded an enormous influence on Mexican popular culture in Los Angeles.... -
Rodney King on cocaine, PCP before drowning, coroner finds
L.A. NOWRodney King, a reluctant symbol of police brutality and the troubled relations between the Los Angeles Police Department and minorities, died after drowning in his backyard pool in Rialto in June with a cocktail of alcohol and drugs in his...... -
Rodney King drank, smoked pot before drowning, records show
L.A. NOWBefore his death by accidental drowning, Rodney King spent the night and early morning hours drinking and smoking marijuana at his house in Rialto and was stumbling around his backyard moments before he fell into his swimming pool, according to the San... -
Rodney King 'incapacitated' by drugs, alcohol before drowning
L.A. NOWRodney King died of accidental drowning in his backyard swimming pool. But San Bernardino County officials said he was smoking pot and drinking in the hours before his death. The coroner's report listed King's death as an accident but added...... -
Rodney King death report: Questions remain, relative says
L.A. NOWOne of Rodney King’s close relatives said Thursday that questions remain about how he drowned in his backyard pool despite the findings in a coroner’s investigation.... -
Coroner: Rodney King in drug, alcohol 'delirium' at time of death
L.A. NOWRodney King drowned in his backyard swimming pool while in a “state of drug and alcohol-induced delirium,” officials concluded Thursday. The San Bernardino County coroner’s office said King died as a result of an accidental drowning... -
Chief Beck says illegal immigrants need 'fair' treatment. Agree?
L.A. NOWThrough a series of actions in the last year, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck has emerged as a leading voice in the national debate about illegal immigration. His first move made it easier for unlicensed drivers — a group dominated by...... -
Rodney King dies at 47; victim of brutal beating became reluctant symbol of race relations
Rodney King never set out to be a James Meredith or Rosa Parks.
He was a drunk, unemployed construction worker on parole when he careened into the city's consciousness in a white Hyundai early one Sunday morning in 1991.
While he was enduring the...Tags: Rodney King, Highway Transportation, Matt Stevens, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Lifestyle and Leisure
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