Naked Man

Officers chased a naked man down the center divider of Highway 101 early Tuesday after reports that his jaunt stopped traffic. The unidentified man had been awaiting an evaluation for possible psychiatric issues when he walked away from a nearby hospital. The California Highway Patrol, sheriff's deputies, police and fire and ambulance crews were summoned to the scene, and CHP officers pulled ahead of southbound traffic, bringing it to a halt so the man wouldn't be struck.

A Los Angeles police officer was justified in fatally shooting a naked, combative man, the Los Angeles Police Commission has ruled. The unanimous decision by the civilian board, which judges whether serious uses of force by Los Angeles Police Department officers are reasonable, closes the department's internal investigation into the dramatic, controversial confrontation, which drew media scrutiny and angry protests from the dead man's family and...

Police are searching for a man who broke into two homes while naked early Tuesday morning. The man forced his way into a 26-year-old woman's home on Charing Cross Drive about 5:25 a.m., authorities said. The naked man woke up the woman, who ran to a neighbor's home for help. The same man, still naked, apparently broke into a two-story home four blocks away on Garrett Circle about 6:47 a.m. A 49-year-old man living in the home found the intruder and struggled with him, authorities said.

A roundup of entertainment headlines for Thursday: Michaele Salahi was not abducted, but she did run off with "Journey" rocker Neal Schon. ( Los Angeles Times ) Scarlett Johansson enlists the FBI after naked pictures of her leaked online. ( Los Angeles Times ) Cameron Diaz and A-Rod have broken up. ( Us Weekly ) Also in Splitsville are "American Idol" babe Pia Toscano and "Dancing With the Stars" pro Mark Ballas. ( TMZ ) And the winner of "America's Got Talent" is ... ( Los Angeles Times )

Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies found a naked and bloody man on a rooftop early Saturday in an unincorporated area near San Gabriel, and a woman was found dead in her home nearby. Deputies were responding to a report of a prowler about 1:50 a.m. when they were redirected to the woman's home in the 8500 block of Palma Vista Avenue. About 400 yards away, deputies found the blood-smeared man, identified as George Pigman, 23, of Pasadena. He was arrested on suspicion of murder.

The man whom Walnut Avenue once called Mike took to dawdling near his fence -- cheekily unclothed. Neighbors yanked down their blinds to block out the 5-foot-9, 165-pound man in his birthday suit. Out-of-towners screeched, and some folks phoned police and begged: Please oust the Naked Man. This kicked off a months-long chain of events that wrapped up Monday night with the Huntington Beach City Council approving a ban on public undress. Police Chief Kenneth W.

Residents and police officers chased a naked man around a Santa Ana neighborhood Friday morning after he tried to break into several apartments. By the time they caught him leaping from the balcony of a second-story apartment, he was wearing shorts and a T-shirt he took from a 62-year-old woman, Santa Ana police spokeswoman Maureen Thomas said.

"The Films of Konrad Wolf," one of the year's most rewarding retrospectives, continues today at the Goethe Institute, 5700 Wilshire Blvd., with "The Naked Man on the Playing Field" (1974), which on a less epic scale than Wolf's "Goya" explores the role of the artist in society and also makes a plea for the artist's freedom of expression.

A naked man was found dead Tuesday morning on the back of a killer whale in a tank at SeaWorld Orlando, apparently after remaining in the Florida theme park after closing time, police said. "The man was found nude on the whale's back," said Jim Solomons, spokesman for the Orange County sheriff's office. "There was no obvious trauma--he wasn't bitten or chewed up or anything." Investigators said an autopsy would determine the cause of death, and drowning was considered a strong possibility.

A naked man who deputies said was waving his arms and talking to himself died after he was jolted with a stun gun and physically subdued on a street corner in Paramount, an official said Sunday. Charles Eugene Miles, 37, of Bellflower, died at 9:50 p.m. Saturday, about one hour after he was arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of a controlled substance, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Kathryn Nielsen said.

The Los Angeles Police Department on Saturday said that two officers involved in the fatal shooting of a former college football player in Playa Vista were "fighting for their lives" in the moments before one of them discharged his weapon. The statement about the shooting of Reginald Doucet Jr., who was unarmed and naked when he encountered police Friday morning, came as a prominent civil rights activist questioned why officers couldn't have used non-lethal means to subdue him and called on LAPD Chief Charlie Beck to review the department's training and tactics in dealing with unarmed suspects.

It's hard to say which booth was drawing more attention at Artexpo New York: the one with the paint-splashed naked man holding a box around his hips, or the one displaying cityscape paintings of tall buildings that resembled what you would see if the naked man dropped his box. If -- as Chicago gallery owner Woody Slaymaker said -- the only thing worse than a lousy comment about your art is no comment at all, then creators of both works must have...

In 1969, five young British comedians and one young American animator came together to make a television show. Without much of an idea of what they were going to do, they were given a series by the BBC to do it in, and after hunting around for a name -- "Owl-Stretching Time" and "A Horse, a Spoon, and a Basin" having been bruited and vetoed -- they settled on "Monty Python's Flying Circus." The 40th anniversary of this event is being marked by an excellent six-hour documentary series, "Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)

In the open desert outside Baiji, Iraq, a naked man with a thick black beard crouched in the dust of a railroad culvert at twilight. Hours before, he had been mumbling and praying in Arabic. Now he spoke few words. Army 1st Lt. Michael Behenna stood over him in the grainy darkness, his Glock pistol racked and pointed down at him. "If you don't talk, I will kill you," Behenna said. The night was warm and ragged from the dust storm that had turned the afternoon an eerie ocher.

A man who authorities say was running naked through the streets of Lakewood died after Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies used pepper spray and Tasers to subdue him, officials said Sunday. Deputies responded to a disturbance call on Silva Street about 10:15 p.m. Saturday when they encountered him. The man, whose name was not released, was irrational and belligerent and advanced on deputies in a threatening manner as they tried to calm him down, said Deputy Richard Li, a Sheriff's Department spokesman.

The man whom Walnut Avenue once called Mike took to dawdling near his fence -- cheekily unclothed. Neighbors yanked down their blinds to block out the 5-foot-9, 165-pound man in his birthday suit. Out-of-towners screeched, and some folks phoned police and begged: Please oust the Naked Man. This kicked off a months-long chain of events that wrapped up Monday night with the Huntington Beach City Council approving a ban on public undress. Police Chief Kenneth W.

A man celebrating a different kind of independence--from clothing--pranced naked atop a concrete jetty in front of an exclusive beach club for about an hour Saturday, throwing rocks and drawing a huge crowd of wedding guests and beachgoers before police shot him with a Taser stun-gun when he refused to leave his perch.

Investigators on Thursday identified Jonathon David Bruce as the assailant who broke into a farmhouse, terrorized five children who were home alone and stabbed two of them to death with a pitchfork before he was shot to death by deputies. Three girls, including one who was bleeding from puncture wounds, escaped through windows during the Wednesday attack and called 911. "It's such a shock," the children's teary-eyed father, John Carpenter, said Thursday. "You keep pinching yourself.

Officers chased a naked man down the center divider of Highway 101 early Tuesday after reports that his jaunt stopped traffic. The unidentified man had been awaiting an evaluation for possible psychiatric issues when he walked away from a nearby hospital. The California Highway Patrol, sheriff's deputies, police and fire and ambulance crews were summoned to the scene, and CHP officers pulled ahead of southbound traffic, bringing it to a halt so the man wouldn't be struck.

Stuart Smailes was a jolly, potbellied man, proudly gay, with a walrus mustache and a passion for Broadway shows, merry-go-rounds and calliopes, his friends say. But most of all, he was an art buff -- so much of a buff that he left a $1-million bequest for a fountain sculpture to the city of Seattle, with an unusual stipulation: It had to include a naked man. "He was adamant that he wanted the nude figure," said one of his best friends, Tom Luhnow. "Stu loved classical sculptures of nude males.