NATIONAL
April 23, 2014 | By Michael Muskal
Defense attorneys for James E. Holmes, charged in the shooting rampage in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater that left 12 dead and dozens wounded, will appeal a court order requiring him to undergo a second evaluation of his sanity. His lawyers gave notice that they would appeal in a Tuesday court filing in the case before Arapahoe County District Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr. The filing was released Wednesday . Holmes underwent a mandatory sanity evaluation last year, but Samour ruled that it was inadequate and ordered a second round of testing.
NATIONAL
March 13, 2013 | By Kim Murphy and Matt Pearce
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. - Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales , accused of killing 16 villagers and wounding six more in Afghanistan , will undergo a government sanity review this weekend to determine his mental state, his attorneys said. Bales faces a military court-martial with the possibility of receiving the death penalty. His attorneys had previously opposed a sanity review, saying that the process was too favorable to military prosecutors, who also have opposed Bales' hopes for an insanity plea.
ENTERTAINMENT
July 20, 2012 | By Matt Donnelly
After weeks of analysis, praise and some backlash, singer Frank Ocean is opening up about his decision to reveal a past romance with another man. Ocean took to his Tumblr blog July 3 to give, in straightforward detail , an account of his same-sex relationship, and the subsequent reaction has catapulted the 24-year-old to media stardom. The decision was not for album sales, he says, but for sanity. Coming out was "about my own sanity and my ability to feel like I'm living a life where … I'm happy when I wake up in the morning, and not with this freakin' boulder on my chest," Ocean said in an interview with the Guardian. PHOTOS: Gay celebrities: Who's out?
ENTERTAINMENT
October 15, 2010 | By Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times
For Amy Lee and her friend Ashley Wright, the decision to organize the Los Angeles-based Rally to Restore Sanity was an easy one. All it took was the urging of Jon Stewart ? and tight finances. "We were having dinner together a few weeks ago, and we were talking about how we really wanted to go to the D.C. rally," said Lee, 38, who works in production and human resources. "But that's quite a trip. We couldn't afford to travel all that way. " Two weeks and a Facebook page later (with 3,100 followers to date)
ENTERTAINMENT
April 14, 1989 | KEVIN THOMAS
"Edge of Sanity" (citywide) is an elegant, bloody new version of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," reworked by writers J.P. Felix and Ron Raley to turn Hyde into Jack the Ripper. Anthony Perkins brings just the right degree of tongue-in-cheekery to his dual role; would that director Gerard Kikoine had exercised the same restraint in showing the Ripper's victims and had left more to the imagination. The result is a stylish, imaginative picture too morbid and graphic for mainstream audiences in its sex-and-violence juxtapositions--but one that may have enough bizarre panache to become a cult film.
HEALTH
October 24, 2011 | By Peggy Stacy, Special to the Los Angeles Times
Two weeks after my double mastectomy, I lay on the exam table, slightly feverish from the plastic drains that attached beneath my skin and snaked silently under my shirt. Like a macabre version of speed dating, I had already met with five oncologists. My case was difficult and required the best of the best. Waiting for Dr. Linnea Chap to walk through the door, I closed my eyes in exhaustion and despair. Dr. Chap had an encyclopedic understanding of breast cancer, but she didn't overwhelm me with detailed explanations of tumor grade or cell replication.