California
With the patriarch of the Hawkins family of Watts maintaining his son’s innocence outside the courtroom, the murder trial of James Hawkins Jr. began Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court.
June 25, 1985
James Henry Hawkins Sr., who won fame for his gun-toting defense of his family’s Watts businesses and neighborhood against gang members, has died.
July 13, 1991
Sports Now
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Oct. 8, 2008
Varsity Times Insider
Sept. 9, 2009
Taking the witness stand Tuesday, murder defendant James Hawkins Jr. staunchly maintained that gang member Anttwon Thomas accidentally shot himself with his own sawed-off shotgun in a struggle outside the Hawkins family’s Watts grocery in September, 1983.
Aug. 14, 1985
Sports
When you lose, 17-10--in baseball, not football--there are going to be some feelings hurt.
May 8, 1987
World & Nation
Watts grocer James Hawkins Sr., testifying in the trial of his son, James Jr., for the 1983 shotgun slaying of a gang member, faced a barrage of prosecution questions Tuesday concerning apparent contradictions between his current testimony and earlier statements also made under oath.
Aug. 7, 1985
Entertainment & Arts
At the System M Caffe Gallery, they serve a cheeseburger with feta --which is about as far from a real cheeseburger as Kent Hawkins’ “Monday in America” is from either real theater or even performance art.
Oct. 6, 1993
Opinion L.A.
Aug. 31, 2007
Once again, Padre Manager Steve Boros tried firing up his crew with a closed-door meeting Saturday.
Aug. 10, 1986