A defense attorney representing a San Fernando Valley teenager accused of murdering his mother 25 years ago failed to adequately pursue a theory regarding an alternative suspect in the case and neglected to have key crime scene evidence analyzed, a private investigator who worked for the lawyer testified Friday.
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As killings go, Leon Huddleston’s should have been relatively easy to solve.
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More than 1,000 heavily armed federal agents and local police fanned out across Southern California and cities in five other states early this morning, arresting dozens of members of the notorious Mongols motorcycle gang on federal racketeering charges.
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An investigation sparked by a suspicious death at an upscale senior living facility in Calabasas has expanded to include the alleged abuse of three more elderly residents, including a 78-year-old woman who was allegedly body-slammed into her bed, according to court records and interviews.
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Suspicious letters delivered to a theater in Palm Desert and to the Los Angeles Times on Friday appeared to contain no hazardous materials,
FBI officials confirmed.
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Suspicious letters delivered to a theater in Palm Desert and to the Los Angeles Times on Friday appeared to contain no hazardous materials,
FBI officials confirmed.
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When Gerald McAfee was hired as comptroller of a small hospital in Downey two decades ago, he quickly convinced his new boss to let him move $1.6 million of the hospital’s money from low-risk, low-yield
CDs into a more aggressive bond fund, authorities said.
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Four former employees of an upscale Calabasas assisted-living facility were arrested Thursday for alleged elder abuse stemming from the suspicious death of an 80-year-old resident last year, authorities said.
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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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