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  • Leland Wong convicted on 14 felony corruption counts

    California | Local | Garrett Therolf | July 25, 2008
    A jury found former Los Angeles city commissioner Leland Wong guilty of public corruption Thursday, ending a criminal investigation that figured in former Mayor James K. Hahn's 2005 election defeat. Wong, a Hahn appointee and longtime member of the city's volunteer commissions overseeing city contracts, was found guilty on 14 felony counts.
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  • Stars in his eyes

    Entertainment | Jeffrey Fleishman | March 31, 2007
    THERE'S snow on the cupola, sunlight in the brandy and a lot of talk about metaphor, mythical symbolism and how the rich will pay incredible amounts of money for a portrait.

  • Former Ukraine prime minister's conviction upheld

    World | Carol J. Williams | April 11, 2009
    Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko's conviction on money-laundering and conspiracy charges was upheld by a federal appeals court Friday, a judgment that will keep the long-incarcerated politician in U.

  • Politicians' flights called wasteful

    California | Local | Paul Pringle | February 28, 2007
    Sen. Dianne Feinstein offers plenty of tips on how California households can combat global warming, such as carpooling and running only a full dishwasher.

  • Father's Trip to Vietnam Is His Daughter's Baggage

    California | Local | Mai Tran | February 15, 2004
    The host of a Vietnamese variety show is under siege for supporting her father's decision to return to Vietnam, a country he fled as it fell to the Communists nearly 30 years ago.

  • Talk of Kim Jong Il's reported stroke is taboo in North Korea

    World | Barbara Demick | September 23, 2008
    A simple question about Kim Jong Il's health provokes a torrent of angry, broken English. "It's a pack of lies," declared Oh Keum Suk. The 26-year-old North Korean tour guide jumped from his seat at a coffee shop and in an exaggerated motion stormed away.
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  • Cadiz water deal was all wet the last time
    Business | Michael Hiltzik | June 11, 2009
    People who say that nothing's harder to get rid of than a bad penny must never have met Keith Brackpool. The British-born promoter, who has spent the last dozen years pushing a scheme to pump water to Southern California from beneath 35,000 acres his Cadiz Inc. owns in the Mojave Desert, just won't go away.
  • Top O.C. officials may be asked to take 5% pay cut
    California | Local | Paloma Esquivel | June 11, 2009
    Key Orange County executives and elected officials will be asked to take a 5% pay cut as part of the ongoing effort to slash more than $1 billion from the county's budget, supervisors decided Wednesday.
  • Ex-member of governor's Cabinet pays $5,400 in ethics fines
    California | Local | Michael Rothfeld | June 9, 2009
    A former member of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Cabinet who resigned in March has paid $5,400 in fines to a state watchdog agency for violating a ban on accepting speaking fees, while saying administration officials knew what she was doing and never advised her to stop.
  • 10 mayors, other Mexico officials detained
    World | Tracy Wilkinson | May 27, 2009
    Mexican security forces swept into President Felipe Calderon's home state of Michoacan on Tuesday and arrested a total of 27 mayors and other government officials, the largest operation to target politicians in Mexico's bloody drug war.
  • Sean Harrington quits public pensions board
    California | Local | David Zahniser | May 9, 2009
    As a member of the powerful Los Angeles Fire and Police Pensions board, Sean Harrigan's private financial life intersected repeatedly with the business of his agency, which oversees a $10.
  • Louis Caldera resigns over Air Force One flyover fiasco
    National | Peter Nicholas | May 9, 2009
    An Obama administration official who took the blame for the Air Force One flyover in lower Manhattan last month gave his resignation Friday, after a White House investigation into a botched photo op that frightened New Yorkers with its echo of the Sept.
  • Flu threat appears to be easing, government officials say
    Science | Marc Silva | May 4, 2009
    As the number of H1N1 influenza cases continued its slow climb, reaching 245 in 30 states in the United States and at least 903 worldwide, both Mexican and U.
  • South Korea ex-leader to face prosecutors
    World | John M. Glionna | April 28, 2009
    Ex-President Roh Moo- hyun will enter familiar territory for a former South Korean head of state this week when he is grilled by prosecutors over his alleged role in a national bribery scandal.
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