L.A. school police officer Jeffrey Stenroos charged with four felonies in shooting hoax
Los Angeles County prosecutors filed four felony charges Thursday against an L.A. Unified school police officer whose tale of being shot by an assailant led to a dragnet that closed seven square miles of the San Fernando Valley. Jeffrey Stenroos, 30, faces charges including perjury, filing a false insurance claim, preparing false evidence and filing a false police report in connection with the Jan. 19 hoax, said Jane Robison, a spokeswoman for the L.A. County district attorney's office.
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Charlie Sheen: LAPD searches home for weapons that may violate restraining order
Los Angeles police searched actor Charlie Sheen's home Thursday night for guns that might be in violation of a temporary restraining order obtained last week by his estranged wife, Brooke Mueller. Officers arrived at Sheen's home in the Sherman Oaks hills after informing his attorney. Sources said Sheen had guns registered to him that would be prohibited by Mueller's restraining order.
Los Angeles Times
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Colorado officer, suspect killed during standoff
A Limon police officer was shot to death Wednesday evening and two officers in a mobile home were freed in a dramatic end to an hours-long standoff with a wanted fugitive. The standoff ended just after 10:40 p.m. when SWAT officers swarmed in to the mobile home to free the two officers, who were initially thought to be hostages.
The Denver Channel
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Suit challenges discretion in issuing gun permits
How much discretion California's law enforcement officials have in issuing concealed weapons permits is the subject of a federal lawsuit with national overtones. On Thursday, gun-rights advocates argued in federal court in Sacramento that county sheriffs - who handle most such permits - must issue them to anyone who completes a training course and has no mental health problems or criminal background. Associated Press
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City & State Budget Crises
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Beutner criticizes L.A. council for not moving quickly to erase $404-million budget deficit
Using some of his harshest words yet, a top aide to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa accused the City Council of lacking a strategy for eliminating a $404-million shortfall. First Deputy Mayor Austin Beutner, who is weighing a possible run for mayor in 2013, told an audience at the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce that private businesses would not allow themselves to have such a large shortfall and no solution so soon before a decision is needed.
Los Angeles Times |
New Internet site explains California's finances
As California's annual political wrangle over the state budget heats up, state Controller John Chiang's office has created an easy-to-read Internet primer on the state's finances. Graphs, charts and text explain the sources of the state's revenues and the ways they are spent, both currently and in the last decade. "I believe that it is important for Californians to be able to easily find out where the state gets its money and how your tax dollars are spent," Chiang says in an introduction to State Finances 101, as his website is called.
Sacramento Bee |
Voters support prevention over prisons, poll says
California voters think major reforms of the state's criminal justice system are needed, and they support changes that would focus on prevention and rehabilitation programs targeted at young people, according to a new poll released Thursday. The survey by Tulchin Research Co. of 601 registered voters found that voters favor prevention more than building more prisons and adopting tougher sentencing laws.
HealthyCal.org |
CalSTRS responds to Little Hoover pension report
Last month's Little Hoover Commission report suggests pension reforms that would end up costing the state more money in the long run -- and that's if they're even legal, the chief executive of California's biggest teachers' pension fund said in a Wednesday letter to the commission. "Implementing the recommendations made in the report - even if it were possible to do - would likely weaken, rather than strengthen, retirement security for California's public educators," Jack Ehnes, CEO of the California State Teachers' Retirement System, said in a letter sent to Little Hoover Chairman Daniel Hancock.
Sacramento Bee |
Wisconsin Assembly passes anti-union bill
Stoking Republican efforts to check union power across the country, Wisconsin's state Assembly sent Gov. Scott Walker a bill that would limit collective-bargaining rights of government workers. The vote, during another emotional day at the Capitol, is expected to intensify bitter fights in capitols from Idaho to Indiana, emboldening other budget-cutting Republican governors to press ahead with anti-union legislation. But it also is likely to galvanize unions and their Democratic allies.
Chicago Tribune
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