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Top per-capita rates in LAPD and sheriff neighborhoods for six months ending March 24
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- 3. Chesterfield Square
- 4. Leimert Park
- 5. Rancho Park
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- 1. Chesterfield Square
- 2. Vermont Vista
- 3. Vermont Knolls
- 4. Harvard Park
- 5. Athens
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- Beverly Grove
- Chatsworth
- Panorama City
- Larchmont
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- Canoga Park
- Harbor City
- Van Nuys
- Arleta
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Friday, May 3, 2013
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Lindsay Lohan said to violate probation by leaving rehab
Actress Lindsay Lohan violated her probation Thursday by leaving a Newport Beach rehabilitation facility where she was to begin 90 days of treatment in a reckless driving case, prosecutors said.
Mark Heller, Lohan's attorney, told Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James Dabney on Thursday morning that his client had already begun her therapy at the Morningside Recovery facility after opting not to go to a Long Island recovery center.
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Long Beach officer kills pit bull in dog attack
A police officer shot and killed at least one of two pit bulls that were trying to attack a woman Wednesday night, according to the Long Beach Police Department.
Authorities said the shooting occurred shortly after 9 p.m. in the 100 block of Ellis Street. Police said they received a call from a woman who told them she was trapped inside her car because of two pit bulls outside her vehicle.
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Calming the West's water wars
Last week, Texas and Oklahoma squared off in a Supreme Court battle over water rights that has the drought-ridden West on edge. At issue is a state's control over its own water: Texas seeks to buy or otherwise tap water from Oklahoma under the terms of an interstate water compact, actions that Oklahoma has so far refused to permit despite the compact.
The stakes of the court's decision are high. Interstate water agreements provide the legal foundation for the economies of most Western states, which are disproportionately dependent on irrigated agriculture. But the Texas-Oklahoma squabble is merely the latest in a string of interstate water disputes nearly as old as the settlement of the American West. Now as in the past, demand for water in the arid West far outstrips supply, and the outdated compact system for determining who gets how much water risks leaving the region high and dry.
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Obama meets privately with Mexican President Peña Nieto
MEXICO CITY -- President Obama and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto assured each other in a private meeting Thursday that they are committed to reducing violence and fighting organized crime. But the conversations are only just beginning between the two over how to work together on shared security interests.
Both sides are concerned about drug and weapons trafficking across the border, but some U.S. officials worry that the new Mexican government isn’t as interested in coordinating with American law enforcement as was the last president.
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Northridge kidnapping suspect arraigned, pleads not guilty
The man suspected of kidnapping and assaulting a 10-year-old Northridge girl last month was arraigned Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court and pleaded not guilty to three dozen felony counts.Tobias Dustin Summers, 32, made his first court appearance since being returned from Mexico last week after his apprehension by Mexican authorities.
Attorney Jeffrey S. Yanuck, who is representing Summers, had no immediate comment because he is still reviewing his client's case.
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Federal judge dismisses DWP lawsuit over Owens Lake dust
A federal court judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power against a state agency it claimed was illegally forcing the city to waste billions of gallons of precious High Sierra water to control dust on dry Owens Lake.
U.S. District Court Judge Anthony W. Ishii determined that the issues are for state courts to decide because the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District is a state agency. The DWP has a similar challenge pending in state court.
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The case for citizen jurors
A bill in the California Legislature would open jury duty to noncitizen legal residents, a risky experiment in fundamental U.S. law.
The Assembly last week passed a bill that immediately drew nationwide attention — for all the wrong reasons. There goes that wacky Golden State again!
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DWP lawsuit over Owens Lake dust dismissed by federal judge
A federal court judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power against a state regulatory agency it claimed was forcing the city to waste billions of gallons of precious High Sierra water to control dust on dry Owens Lake.
In his 21-page ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Anthony W. Ishii determined that “there is no reason or logic” to key arguments in the DWP lawsuit, which was publicly supported by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the Los Angeles City Council and the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.
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Terror database too vague to flag Boston suspect
WASHINGTON — When a Russian intelligence service told the CIA that Tamerlan Tsarnaev had become an Islamic radical looking to join underground groups, the agency put his name in the government's catch-all database for terrorism suspects.
The Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment list, known as TIDE, was the government's attempt after the Sept. 11 attacks to consolidate a hodgepodge of watch lists, and ensure that every law enforcement agency would be alerted when it came into contact with a possible terrorist.
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Obama, visiting Mexico, shifts focus from drug war
MEXICO CITY — Against the backdrop of a deadly drug war and shifting security cooperation, President Obama joined his Mexican counterpart, Enrique Peña Nieto, here Thursday to promote economic integration, trade and jobs.
The two leaders sought to emphasize a U.S.-Mexican partnership committed to growth, education exchange and a strengthened border, minimizing the dominant position that fighting drug cartels has occupied in recent years.
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2 L.A. high schools, 2 views of Jason Collins
At Harvard-Westlake, a private high school in the shadows of the Hollywood Hills, players from the basketball team heaped praise on the alumnus who this week became the first active NBA player to announce that he is gay.
"We have a lot of pride in him," Michael Sheng, 17, said of Jason Collins. "He's a hero, an icon for what he has done."
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California tax revenue yields multibillion-dollar surplus
SACRAMENTO — California has been flooded with revenue this tax season and is on track to finish the fiscal year with a surplus of billions of dollars, according to officials.
State coffers contain about $4.5 billion more than expected in personal income tax payments. Nearly $2.8 billion of it arrived April 17, the third-highest single-day collection in California history, according to government figures.
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Obama 'very comfortable' with age restriction on 'morning after' pill
MEXICO CITY -- President Obama says he’s “very comfortable” with a Food and Drug Administration ruling that maintains age restrictions on females who can buy the so-called morning after pill without a prescription.The rule announced this week prohibits girls younger than 15 from buying the drug, known as Plan B, over the counter. The decision was made by the FDA and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, Obama said, pushing back against women's groups that have suggested the White House has interjected its political concern about a touchy subject into the rule process.
Sebelius is comfortable with the ruling and so is he, Obama said Thursday at a news conference in Mexico City, where he is meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.
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L.A. mayor candidates urge DWP to release pay records
Shortly after lawyers for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power employees' union filed a lawsuit to delay release of their members' names and current salaries, both mayoral candidates called on the agency to make the information public as soon as possible.
The candidates — City Controller Wendy Greuel and City Councilman Eric Garcetti — also began blaming each other for DWP employee pay that averaged $99,381 in 2011, according to the most recent publicly available data. That was more than 50% higher than the average pay for other city workers, and about 25% higher than employees at comparable public and private utilities, records show.
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Jail deputy accused of abusing inmate informant
Prosecutors are considering whether to file criminal charges against a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy accused of assaulting an inmate who was helping federal authorities investigate a suspected international drug trafficker, according to records and interviews.
The inmate accused Deputy Michael Camacho of targeting him, at least in part, because he was cooperating with detectives as an informant, internal records show.