NEWS
April 20, 2013 | By Richard A. Serrano, Brian Bennett and Molly Hennessy-Fiske
BOSTON - The day after the second suspect in the Boston bombings was captured, federal law enforcement officials scoured evidence searching for a motive for the brutal terrorist attack while the region tried to return to normal, aided by Red Sox and Bruins games. A high-placed FBI official said the agency had interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two suspects, and his mother in January 2011, and also checked his telephone and Internet activity at the request of the Russian government.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 15, 2013 | By Los Angeles Times Staff
Police are trying to determine a motive for an attack in which a man sitting in his SUV was set on fire outside a 7-Eleven store in Long Beach. Raymond Sean Clark, 38, is accused of dousing the 62-year-old victim with a flammable substance while he was parked in front of the store at about 5 p.m. Friday, said Long Beach police Sgt. Aaron Eaton. There were reports that there had been an argument between Clark, who has been described as homeless, and the victim just before the attack, but Eaton said that had not been confirmed.
SPORTS
April 15, 2013 | T.J. Simers
A couple of months ago, Kobe Bryant and I sat down over coffee in Minneapolis to discuss his future. I mentioned Michael Jordan, who was playing for Washington late in his career, and being there the night Kobe dropped 55 points on the old man. "There's not a chance you'll see me" like that, promised Kobe. So I guess I won't be seeing him play again. Bryant is done. He's so done I could run circles around him now, easily defeating him one-on-one. Now he's a Pau Gasol cheerleader, which has to be amusing to Gasol, given how frustrated he was to never get the ball.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
April 14, 2013 | By Hector Becerra
Long Beach police are searching for a motive after a homeless man allegedly set a 62-year-old man on fire in his sport utility vehicle. Raymond Sean Clark, 38, is accused of dousing the victim with a flammable substance while he was parked in front of a 7-Eleven store about 5 p.m. Friday, Long Beach police Sgt. Aaron Eaton told The Times. Eaton said a detective told him that a motive had not yet been established. There were reports that there had been an argument between Clark and the victim just before the attack, but Eaton said that had not been confirmed.
WORLD
April 12, 2013 | By Carol J. Williams
Contrary to the adage, what we don't know about North Korea could hurt us. It's not known whether the intermediate-range Musudan missiles poised for imminent firing could reach U.S. bases on Guam or Japan, though at least the latter is thought to be likely. Neither do the geopolitical experts who track every inscrutable move of the hermit country know if a missile launch would be meant to salute late North Korean founder Kim Il Sung on his 101st birthday Monday or to demonstrate that Pyongyang has the power to instigate a nuclear conflagration.
NATIONAL
March 31, 2013 | By Matt Pearce, This post has been corrected, as indicated below.
The last time a prosecutor was gunned down in Kaufman County, Texas, in January, top county prosecutor Mike McLelland stood in front of reporters and vowed to carry on. "We'll still make the walk, and we'll still show up," McLelland said of the courthouse parking lot where one of his assistant district attorneys, Mark Hasse, was gunned down by an unidentified assailant Jan. 31. "And we'll still send bad guys out of Kaufman County every chance we...