A Los Angeles police officer is under investigation for allegedly forcing women he met while on duty to have sex with him, law enforcement sources said Friday.
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The Los Angeles Police Department has acknowledged in a confidential report that people have been falsely implicated in crimes because the department’s fingerprint experts wrongly identified them as suspects.The 10-page internal report, obtained by The Times, highlighted two cases in which criminal defendants had charges against them dropped after problems with the fingerprint analysis were exposed.
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Firefighters extinguished a small blaze at a downtown Los Angeles high-rise within minutes this afternoon, officials said.
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Calm winds early today kept the larger of two San Fernando Valley wildfires from making a run toward the sea, averting a disaster scenario that has played out regularly over recent decades.
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When glowing embers landed in Wayne Shook’s yard this morning, the Granada Hills resident decided to take matters into his own hands.
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He had called the multi-ethnic Mid-Wilshire neighborhood home for more than a decade.
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For the first time ever, the city attorney’s office has removed a former gang member from one of its numerous gang injunctions, which cover more than 11,000 people.
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An unemployed financial advisor apparently despondent over his troubles shot and killed his wife, his mother-in-law and three children before taking his own life in a gated community in the northwest San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles police said today.
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A Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy was charged today with torturing and forcibly sexually assaulting his wife and another man after learning that his wife planned to divorce him, authorities said.
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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.
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