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Crime
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
IN BRIEF | Los Angeles County | LOS ANGELES - Woman admits illegal money transactions
California | Local |
October 31, 2007
A Los Angeles woman pleaded guilty to federal charges of operating
an unlicensed money transmitter that illegally funneled hundreds of
thousands of dollars to and from South Korea. Read more
Friday, October 26, 2007
Unpaid fares may cost MTA millions
California | Local |
October 26, 2007
About 5% of weekday passengers on Los Angeles’ subway, light rail
lines and Orange Line buses are getting a free ride by failing to pay fares. Read more
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Hop on the bus and visit the scenes of the crimes. You can even reenact a few.
Entertainment |
October 25, 2007
EVER wonder what it’s like to get away with murder? Read more
TJX breach may be double previous estimate
Business |
October 25, 2007
At least 94 million Visa and MasterCard accounts may have been
exposed to potential fraud in a data breach at TJX Cos., nearly
double the previous estimate by the discount retailer. Read more
Bratton vows city will be safer
California | Local |
October 25, 2007
On the eve of beginning his second term, Los Angeles Police Chief
William J. Bratton predicted Wednesday that crime in the city would
continue to decline unless budget cuts prevent him from launching
several initiatives. Read more
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Southland official’s war story was fiction
California | Local |
October 20, 2007
Xavier Alvarez, the newest director of Three Valleys Municipal
Water District in Claremont, had a personal story so harrowing he
came to be known as the “Rambo” of the water board. Read more
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Logjam in court forces eight felony dismissals
California | Local |
October 17, 2007
In August, the state sent an emergency team of judges to help
clear the overburdened courts in Riverside County. Read more
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Senate ready to buck Bush on funding for local police
National |
October 16, 2007
Rather than bow to President Bush’s budget warnings, a defiant
Senate today is poised to approve a bill that would increase funding
for an anti-crime program that the White House has sought to cut. Read more
Monday, October 15, 2007
Neighborhood watch, magnified
National |
October 15, 2007
Crime may not pay, but the founders of a new website that gathers
and reports petty crimes hope it could pay off in deterrence, as well
as prove a lucrative investment. Read more
Friday, October 5, 2007
Landlord faces 40 criminal charges
California | Local |
October 5, 2007
A Fullerton apartment complex owner has been charged with 40
criminal violations after a long history of complaints alleging
unhealthy conditions in his units, city officials said. Read more
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Crime off, but plan is faulted
California | Local |
September 26, 2007
A UCLA study found that the city’s year-old Safer City Initiative
to clean up skid row has reduced crime but that few additional social
services have been initiated. Read more
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Study: No racial crime wave
California | Local |
September 22, 2007
Despite a few highly publicized cases, Los Angeles is not “on the
brink” of a major interracial crime wave, three University of
California, Irvine scholars have concluded after examining assault,
robbery and homicide data in the city’s southern police precincts. Read more
Friday, September 21, 2007
Bill would force cruise lines to report crimes at sea
Business |
September 21, 2007
A day after a congressional subcommittee held a hearing to
scrutinize safety on the high seas, Sen. Read more
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Sparring over crime at sea
Business |
September 20, 2007
Crimes on cruise ships are “remarkably low,” a cruise industry
official told a congressional subcommittee Wednesday, pointing to a
recent five months of incidents reported to the FBI. But more victims came forward, including a young woman whose
attorney said she was raped by a Royal Caribbean crew member who used
his keys to enter her cabin while she slept. Read more
Monday, September 10, 2007
Israel arrests alleged neo-Nazis
World |
September 10, 2007
With eight young immigrants from the former Soviet Union under
arrest, Israeli authorities said Sunday they had broken up a violent
neo-Nazi gang that desecrated synagogues and staged at least 15
attacks on religious Jews, Asian workers, drug addicts and homosexuals. Read more
Sunday, September 9, 2007
Many say toilets have got to go
National |
September 9, 2007
Just across the street from the historic produce stalls of Pike
Place Market sits a gunmetal gray cylindrical pod with shiny silver
doors, a structure that would look right at home on the bridge of the
starship Enterprise. Read more
Friday, August 31, 2007
Man is charged with stabbing sea lion
California | Local |
August 31, 2007
A Garden Grove fisherman accused of fatally stabbing a sea lion
that was stealing his bait was charged Thursday with violating the
federal Marine Mammal Protection Act. Read more
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Border violence pushes north
National |
August 19, 2007
Violent crime along the U.S.-Mexico border, which has long plagued
the scrubby, often desolate stretch, is increasingly spilling
northward into the cities of the American Southwest. Read more
Friday, August 10, 2007
IN BRIEF | Los Angeles County | HACIENDA HEIGHTS - Pair accused of pelting cars are sentenced
California | Local |
August 10, 2007
Two men charged with throwing heavy objects from a Pomona Freeway
overpass onto vehicles were sentenced to four years in state prison
Thursday, officials said. Read more
Crime rate is both up and down
California | Local |
August 10, 2007
A reduction in property crimes helped Oxnard post a more than 12%
drop in major crimes during the first six months of the year, while
Ventura experienced more robberies, burglaries and thefts, pushing
its crime rate up nearly 5%, according to new reports. Read more
