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There is Scum of the Earth, and Then There Is Johnny Ray Gasca
A Bronx man dubbed “The Big Apple Bandit” back home and the “Prince of Piracy Scams” in Los Angeles has been sentenced to nearly 26 years in federal prison for kidnapping a 68-year-old woman with dementia at the West L.A. Veterans Affairs Medical Center in July 2021, then obstructing an FBI investigation into the abduction. Johnny Ray…
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José Huizar’s Last Words & What a Waste of a Princeton Education
The disgraced City Councilman’s letter to U.S. District Judge John F. Walter seeking a reduced sentence failed to win any leniency even as it underscored how far he had come and how high he had risen only to lose everything by squandering it all like some greedy barrio Mexican Mafiosi organized crime boss. By JOSÉ…
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Is L.A. The Most Corrupt City in America?
That’s a lot of bad behavior – criminal and otherwise – for a 15-member body over the span of a few years. And it naturally raises the concern that something deeper is happening at City Hall. By JIM NEWTON, CalMatters There’s a question on a lot of minds in Los Angeles these days: What is…
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A Murder in Hollywood: Obsessed Extra Guns Down Producer’s Son in Cold Blood
Movie stand-in Jameelah Elena Michl fell so madly in love with her film’s beautiful director that she began stalking her — even brandishing a Glock — and when the director didn’t return her affection, the extra shot to death the Hollywood social justice do-gooder she believed to have gotten in her way. There are no…
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Dallas 60 Years Later: Bob Jackson and ‘The Shot’
The national tragedy of November 22, 1963, affected all of us in different ways. For me, it intensified my childhood dream of wanting to write and later of wanting to report the news. By TONY CASTRO IF YOU ARE A TEXAN, as I am, November 22, 1963, always brings back a tearful rush of memories…
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Man Suspected of Tagging Cars with Swastikas Arrested
City News ServiceLOS ANGELES — A 37-year-old man suspected of spray painting swastikas on 13 vehicles in Inglewood, Ladera Heights, View Park and Windsor Hills was in custody Wednesday. Robert Haymore was arrested around 11 a.m. Tuesday in the 1700 block of Centinela Avenue, near La Cienega Boulevard, according to the Sheriff’s Information Bureau. Victims discovered Saturday…
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Why DA Gascón Needs to be Removed from Office
“It just seems that the district attorney wants to spare a life, when (the suspect) didn’t spare my son’s life — he executed my son.” —Kim Clinkunbroomer The mother of the Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy who was fatally shot earlier this month in Palmdale said in remarks broadcast Wednesday that the district attorney’s decision…
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Leslie Van Houten Should Still Be in Prison
BY LOUISE LABIANCA Love and logic do not always mesh together in neat, harmonious ways. This idea has occurred to me more than once as I try to reach a logical conclusion and accept that the woman who participated in the brutal murders of my father and step-mother has been released from jail. On July…
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Armed Man Arrested at RFK Jr. Hispanic Event
LOS ANGELES — Police arrested a man allegedly posing as a United States Marshal during a Hispanic Heritage Month event attended by Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday in the Wilshire Park area not far from where his father was assassinated in 1968. Kennedy, 69, took to X, formerly known as Twitter, shortly…
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Beverly Hills Real Estate Agent Murdered
Los Angeles police have launched a murder investigation into the apparent homicide of a beautiful 31-year-old Beverly Hills licensed real estate agent who was found slain inside her downtown Los Angeles high rise apartment. Police discovered the body of Maleesa Mooney inside her fifth-floor residence in the 200 block of South Figueroa overlooking the 110…