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An Irvine man who authorities said was severely beaten by a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy was semi-conscious Tuesday and is expected to require "complete facial reconstruction," his father said. Chris Heflin said his son Michael, 23, also had been stabbed multiple times in the groin area at an Irvine apartment complex, but he did not believe the deputy had actually attempted to castrate his son as he was initially told by a hospital staff member.

A member of the disgraced pop music duo Milli Vanilli slashed his wrist, gulped prescription pills and then dangled from a ninth-floor hotel balcony Saturday before a Times switchboard operator and sheriff's deputies teamed up to save his life, authorities said. Lip-sync artist Robert Pilatus complained of continuing humiliation stemming from the well-publicized musical hoax before climbing over a balcony railing outside his $225-per-night suite at the Mondrian Hotel on the Sunset Strip.

A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted 10 Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department narcotics officers--including all nine members of an elite team--on charges of stealing more than $1.4 million in seized drug cash and using much of that money to buy homes, luxury cars, jewelry and stocks. The 10 veteran officers were also accused of conspiring to take money from suspected drug dealers during narcotics raids over the last two years.

All things considered, Linda Canada says she was happier just being "one of the boys." Of all the police officers featured on Fox Broadcasting's "Cops" TV series, Canada, a deputy with Broward County Sheriff's Department in Florida, has gotten the most attention. She was firm and no-nonsense in episodes a year ago when she arrested drug suspects and told prostitutes to "get off my streets."

A Quartz Hill family sued Los Angeles County and the Sheriff's Department on Wednesday over the stabbing death of their mother by her daughter's ex-boyfriend, an attorney for the family said. The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court seeks an unspecified amount of damages, said attorney Ronald Papell. Sheriff's officials declined to comment on the lawsuit.

A Los Angeles County sheriff's sergeant, who has become the central figure in a money-skimming scandal involving an elite squad of narcotics officers, pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to conspiracy and tax fraud charges and agreed to testify against his former deputies. Sgt. Robert R. Sobel, 45, who once commanded the crew of veteran deputies--all of whom have been indicted--tersely admitted in open court that he had helped steal more than $1.

Darkness had descended on Sunset Boulevard hours ago, and the Saturday night ritual of the Strip People was revving up to full, nerve-jangling gear. The neon-lit air was choked with heavy--heavy music, heavy sounds and heavy traffic. On the littered sidewalk, punkers in torn shirts maneuvered past young rockers in buckled boots conversing in large groups or waiting to get into Gazzarri's. The informal dress code of the street was black-and-blue anything.

A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy who had been under surveillance for about a month was arrested when he tried to purchase a kilogram of cocaine from an undercover officer on a downtown street, authorities said Thursday. William Barr, 25, a 4 1/2-year veteran of the department, was arrested about 2:15 p.m. Wednesday near Alameda and Macy streets, said Deputy Larry Mead, a Sheriff's Department spokesman.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle a wrongful-death claim involving a Lakewood man whose condition apparently was not monitored adequately by a paramedic after the man was hogtied by sheriff's deputies. The county counsel's office said an autopsy determined that Victor Cox, 29, died from "excited delirium and cocaine intoxication."

Detectives were trying to unravel a mystery Wednesday after concluding that a sheriff's deputy originally thought to have accidentally shot herself in the driveway of a Long Beach home was actually killed by someone else. Maria Cecilia Rosa, 30, was found by a newspaper deliveryman slumped over the trunk of her car just before 6 a.m. Tuesday with her service handgun lying near her body.