Conspiracy

It took nearly 5 1/2 years to convict David A. Brown in the death of his wife, Linda Marie Brown. February, 1985: Patti Bailey, at the request of her lover and brother-in-law, David A. Brown, takes a gun into the room of her sister, Linda Marie Brown (David's wife) at the Garden Grove home where they all live, intent on killing her. She gets scared and backs out.

Three days after Metta World Peace threw an elbow that could have killed James Harden, it is justice that is now holding its head and writhing on the floor. World Peace has been suspended for only seven games? The Lakers got lucky. The Lakers got luckier than Harden, the Oklahoma City player who walked into World Peace's animal rage Sunday afternoon and will wobble into the postseason with a concussion. The Lakers got luckier than the Thunder, which will have to face World Peace again if the teams meet in the second round of the playoffs.

"You are my baby," Nam Tran Tran Van Chuong told her then-60-year-old son one evening in the summer of 1986, kissing his hand at the dinner table. Then, pulling out a sketch of her burial plot, she pointed to the place where her husband would lay beside her, and, on the other side, the spot where their son would join them someday. It seemed a portrait of tranquillity, after years of upheaval, for this prominent Vietnamese family.

WASHINGTON -- Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says he expects a “vast left-wing conspiracy” in the media to attack him in an effort to boost President Obama's chances of being re-elected. “There will be an effort by the, quote, vast left-wing conspiracy to work together to put out a message and to attack me," Romney said in an interview with Breitbart.com's Larry O'Connor. "And they're going to do everything they can to divert from the issue people care about, which is a growing economy that creates more jobs and rising incomes.

Amid sobs from some relatives, three more members of the Mexican Mafia were sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole after their conviction this year on federal racketeering and conspiracy charges. A fourth man, Joe "Shakey Joe" Hernandez, 43, received a lighter prison term, 32 years, partly because he is only an associate and not a full-fledged member of the secretive prison gang. U.S. District Judge Ronald S. W.

The alert came from an informant who warned of impending suicide attacks on the Barcelona subway. And because the suspected bombers thought the spy was ready to die with them, officials say, he urged authorities to act fast. The paramilitary Guardia Civil raided mosques and apartments in port neighborhoods housing one of mainland Europe's largest Pakistani communities. A judge jailed 10 suspects. Spain warned that bombers had been dispatched for follow-up attacks in Paris, London, Lisbon and Frankfurt.

The impeachment of Bill Clinton is obviously part of a vast left-wing conspiracy to make the Republicans look like idiots. BRENT MEEKER Camarillo

'Conspiracy Theory With Jesse Ventura' Where: TruTV When: 10 tonight Rating: TV-14 (may be unsuitable for children younger than 14)

WASHINGTON -- Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney says he expects a “vast left-wing conspiracy” in the media to attack him in an effort to boost President Obama's chances of being re-elected. “There will be an effort by the, quote, vast left-wing conspiracy to work together to put out a message and to attack me," Romney said in an interview with Breitbart.com's Larry O'Connor. "And they're going to do everything they can to divert from the issue people care about, which is a growing economy that creates more jobs and rising incomes.

Haribabu was the doer of odd jobs, a two-bit free-lance photographer who lived in a tiny hut with his parents, borrowed his cameras and film and hardly could have known that the job he took for $5 last month would leave behind the only crucial, physical clues to one of India's most brazen political assassinations. The 21-year-old Haribabu was killed in the process.

Now hold on: There's a vast left-wing media conspiracy against Mitt Romney, and no one told me? What am I, chopped-liver journalist? In case you missed it , Romney said in an interview with Breitbart.com's Larry O'Connor: “There will be an effort by the, quote, vast left-wing conspiracy to work together to put out a message and to attack me. " COMMENTARY AND ANALYSIS: Presidential Election 2012 He also responded to...

A fugitive in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum corruption case said he was in "the jungles of Brazil" and will not return to face trial in an alleged kickback scheme because he shouldn't have been charged. "Let 'em come over here and get me," Tony Estrada, a former Coliseum janitorial contractor who portrays himself as a whistle-blower done wrong, told The Times in a telephone interview. Estrada, who has been charged with embezzlement and conspiracy, said Monday he came forward more than a year ago with canceled checks and other evidence that showed he was making secret payments to the stadium's then-general manager, Patrick Lynch.

Was it a conspiracy that went all the way to the top of ABC? Or was it the case of an exaggerating actress out for revenge? Nicollette Sheridan's wrongful-termination suit against the creator of "Desperate Housewives" and a studio wound toward a conclusion Wednesday as jurors heard closing arguments offering vastly different interpretations of the case. As the tall, blond actress and Marc Cherry, the balding, bespectacled writer who invented the world of Wisteria Lane, looked on from opposite sides of the courtroom, their attorneys debated for hours over what led to the 2008 death of Sheridan's character.

A council member in City of Commerce pleaded guilty Monday to a felony conspiracy charge stemming from his attempts to influence an investigation into his campaign's financial dealings, the U.S. attorney's office said. City Councilman Robert Fierro reimbursed some contributors to his 2005 campaign with cash in a scheme that hid the true source of the funds, according to a sworn statement from his treasurer, who has also pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge. Later, when he learned of an FBI investigation into the scheme, he urged a contributor to tell "false stories" before the grand jury, the statement said.

For more than a decade, executives at several major Japanese auto parts makers met in secret, sometimes speaking in code, to fix prices on wiring harnesses and other crucial components. The global conspiracy, which stretched from distribution centers in the U.S. heartland to corporate high-rises in Tokyo and Europe, remained undetected for years, according to U.S. government documents, allowing a small cadre of suppliers to effectively control the lucrative $30-billion market in automotive wiring.

Four police officers from a Connecticut suburb have been accused of abusing their legal authority to harass, intimidate and deprive Latinos of their rights, the latest in a series of charges brought by the federal government against local police departments. The charges against four East Haven police officers follow a Justice Department report last month that found a pattern of discrimination against Latinos and their supporters. "We know and understand how difficult police officers' jobs are and how important they are to a free society," U.S. Atty.

A local Teamsters Union organizer pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor conspiracy charge of accepting money from a man posing as a Hollywood producer seeking approval to make a non-union movie. Russell J. Masetta, an official with Teamsters Local 848 in El Monte, admitted conspiring with a reputed Mafia captain to accept about $1,000 from the film producer, who turned out to be an undercover FBI agent.

A former official of the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles and two of his brothers have been charged with engaging in an elaborate scheme to enrich themselves by steering contracts for construction projects at the city's housing projects. Federal prosecutors allege that Victor Taracena, who supervised construction projects at the housing authority from 2003 to 2007, arranged for numerous contracts to be awarded to companies controlled by his brothers, Bennett A. Taracena and Diego L. Taracena.

Reporting from Los Angeles and Vancouver, Canada -- Once Dorothee Burkhart had squeezed through a window and escaped, only two things mattered: Finding Harry and getting out of Germany. It was September 2007 in Frankfurt. Four months earlier, police had arrested Burkhart in a string of thefts and sent her to a woman's prison to await trial. Separated from Harry, her 19-year-old son who suffered from a slew of mental disabilities, she had grown increasingly anxious. Without her, Harry was alone and unprotected in a city that she believed was filled with people set on hurting them.