A high-profile attorney to Hollywood’s rich and famous was so determined to crush his opponents in a bitter child-support battle he was fighting on behalf of his billionaire client that he resorted to an illegal wiretap conducted by private eye Anthony Pellicano, a prosecutor told jurors Thursday.
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A Los Angeles judge today sentenced two women to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing homeless men in a coldblooded years-long scheme for $2.8 million in life insurance money.
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A burglary suspect who died in police custody in Long Beach over the weekend was allegedly hit with a shotgun butt by residents who restrained him before officers arrived, authorities said Monday.
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A man described as a suspected burglar who reportedly screamed for help as he was being detained by neighbors, died in police custody, Long Beach officials said Sunday.
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A former Los Angeles deputy mayor testified Thursday that ex-city commissioner Leland Wong gave him Lakers tickets and paid for massages that included sexual favors while pressuring him to help a Taiwanese shipping firm obtain a lucrative city port lease.
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Former Los Angeles Mayor James
K. Hahn, testifying at the only trial stemming from “pay to play” allegations that dogged his administration, said Wednesday that he didn’t know whether one of his top commissioners was taking bribes.
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Firefighters continued to gain ground Monday in their battle against a pair of testy wildfires still blazing on opposite ends of a Central Coast national forest.
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As with most people who land in traffic court, Dae Lee, Denise Milton and Felix Arellanoramirez were defiant.
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A Los Angeles school principal who has been charged with possessing child pornography had posed as a 12-year-old girl in an online chat room and engaged in sexually explicit talk, authorities said today.
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The 1st Amendment rights of two anti-abortion activists were violated when they were ordered to stop circling a Rancho Palos Verdes middle school in a truck displaying graphic photos of aborted fetuses, a federal appellate court ruled Wednesday.Overturning an earlier district court judgment, a
U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel unanimously ruled that school officials and sheriff’s deputies violated the men’s free speech rights by ordering them to leave the school’s neighborhood.
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