Libor Jany covers the Los Angeles Police Department. Before joining the Los Angeles Times in 2022, he covered public safety for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. A St. Paul, Minn., native, Jany studied communications at Mississippi State University.
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As authorities sift through debris at a Palm Springs fertility clinic, investigators are looking at how bombing suspect Guy Edward Bartkus learned to build a bomb and where he acquired the parts.
Authorities are investigating what appear to be radical views that Guy Edward Bartkus expressed online in the months before Saturday’s attack.
The suspect in the bombing of a Palm Springs fertility clinic was tentatively identified by the FBI as Guy Edward Bartkus, 25.
A suspected bomb blast that authorities believe was ‘an intentional act of terrorism’ outside a Palm Springs fertility clinic left one person dead and additional people injured.
In the last five years, the city has shelled out nearly $70 million for jury verdicts or settlements from lawsuits involving officers who alleged whistleblower retaliation and other workplace injustices.
LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell said officers responding two separate 911 calls of violent assaults did not immediately enter the locations where slain victims were later found.
Sidney Barrett Morris, who held a high-level post at Cal State Northridge, was gunned down as he ate dinner on Nov. 28, 2023. The suspected killers appeared in court recently, but a motive in the crime remains unclear.
The possibility of losing more than 400 civilian workers has increased uncertainty around Police Chief Jim McDonnell’s vision for shaking up the LAPD.
Matthew Barragan comes from a Central Valley immigrant family and cut his teeth defending the rights of indigent farmworkers facing deportation. Now he’s responsible for civilian oversight of the LAPD.
The police video, spliced together from officers’ body-worn cameras and surveillance footage, showed confusion in the moments leading up to the shooting of Jillian Lauren this month.