LAPD Protective League Says Rams Should Pay for All Security at Home Games
The Los Angeles Police Protective League believes the Los Angeles Rams should pay for all security at the Memorial Coliseum during home games. "The current plan is the Rams will pay for the inside security, within the Coliseum, but outside security is at the expense of taxpayers," former L.A. City Councilmember Dennis Zine said. According to a taxpayer lawsuit filed by the league Wednesday, more than 200 on-duty officers have been pulled from their daily assignments to cover outside security or traffic during the games.
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Deadly Stabbing Investigation Underway In Willowbrook
Homicide detectives Friday investigated the circumstances surrounding the stabbing death of a man in Willowbrook. Sheriff's deputies responded just before 10 p.m. Thursday to the 11600 block of South Avalon Boulevard for report of a stabbing. Upon their arrival, authorities pronounced an adult man dead at the scene. His identity is being withheld pending family notification. At this time, no arrests have been made in connection with the stabbing. Police are searching for a Hispanic man who is believed to be in his mid 30s.
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Police Arrest Five People for Distributing 'Spice' on Skid Row
Los Angeles police Thursday announced the arrests of five people in connection with the distribution of the synthetic drug "spice" on Skid Row. Following the Wednesday arrests, police raided a South Los Angeles building believed to have been a manufacturing location of the drug blamed for sickening dozens of people on Skid Row in recent weeks. Police recovered money, drugs and chemicals used to manufacture spice, according to the LAPD.
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Man Shot, Killed by L.A. Sheriff's Deputy in Florence Area: Officials
A Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy fatally shot a man in the unincorporated Florence area early Thursday evening, authorities said. The shooting occurred about 5:45 p.m. in the 1700 block of East 83rd Street, sheriff's officials said. The unidentified man was taken to a hospital after he was shot, officials said.
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Man Accused Of Killing TSA Agent At LAX In 2013 Will Plead Guilty
A gunman who killed a federal airport screening officer and wounded three people in a terrifying rampage at Los Angeles International Airport three years ago agreed to plead guilty in a deal that spares him from a possible death sentence. Paul Ciancia faces a mandatory term of life in prison for murder and other penalties, according to the plea agreement filed Thursday in U.S. District Court that calls for him to plead guilty to all charges.
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Woman Captures Panorama City Road Rage Incident on Video
A woman captured a road rage incident in Panorama City on her cellphone. A road rage incident in Panorama was captured on a cellphone. The incident occurred about 5:15 p.m. Tuesday near the intersection of Roscoe Boulevard and Noble Avenue, near a junior high school. The woman, who did not want to be identified, said the driver of a Honda honked at a man in an SUV who apparently cut him off. The man in the SUV then slammed on his breaks and the Honda rear-ended him. The woman said she alerted authorities of the incident and turned over the video to the Los Angeles Police Department.
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German national convicted of setting more than 40 fires
A German national was convicted Thursday of nearly 50 felony charges for going on an arson spree and setting more than 40 fires in less than a week in Hollywood, West Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge George G. Lomeli ordered jurors to return to court Tuesday for the second phase of the trial, in which the panel will be asked to determine if Harry Burkhart, now 29, was sane or insane at the time of the crimes.
Los Angeles Daily News

San Diego County to pay $2.3 million in case of inmate who died after swallowing baggie of meth
San Diego County has agreed to pay $2.3 million to the family of a man who died in San Diego's Central Jail in 2012 from a drug overdose, the second time in less than two years that taxpayers have funded a multimillion-dollar settlement over an inmate's death. The parents of Bernard Victorianne sued the Sheriff's Department in 2014, claiming that jail staff knew the 28-year-old had swallowed a baggie of methamphetamine and failed to act on obvious signs of medical distress for days.
Los Angeles Times

Brock Turner going home; fallout from Stanford case continues
When Brock Turner walks out of jail Friday after serving half of a widely reviled six-month sentence for good behavior, he'll return to a hot political landscape. Turner will return to his home state, Ohio, where he will spend three years on probation. Back in California, the fallout from his sexual assault of an unconscious woman on the Stanford University campus will continue to shake up local courts and shape state laws.
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Psychotic inmate gouged out eyes, drug maker says ‘not our fault'
Lawyers for Pfizer Inc. want a judge to dismiss the pharmaceutical company as a defendant in a lawsuit brought by a man who claims its anti-smoking medication was a factor in his psychotic breakdown that led him to gouge his eyes out while in jail. In papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Pfizer's attorneys say the product label warning for Chantix was adequate and also argue that manufacturers of such prescription drugs have an obligation to provide warnings to doctors, but not to patients like plaintiff Michael Shabsis.
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Texting and Driving: How Laws are Enforced in 5 States
Forty-six states have laws against texting while driving that typically also ban sending or reading email, using apps or engaging in other internet activity. Fourteen states bar drivers from using hand-held cellphones for any activity, including talking on the phone. A look at cellphone driving laws and how they are enforced in five states:
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Ex-Subway Pitchman in Suit: Victim's Parents to Blame
Subway's former pitchman imprisoned for child pornography and sex abuse argued in a Thursday court filing that the parents of one of his female victims are to blame for what he describes as her "destructive behaviors." Jared Fogle's motion filed in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis also argues that the parents may be responsible for the girl's injuries alleged in a civil lawsuit against him.
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