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Sun Valley bear tranquilized, captured after roaming neighborhood
A bear that spent more than an hour Wednesday morning roaming through a Sun Valley neighborhood was tranquilized and captured and will be returned to the forest, authorities said. The approximately 15-month-old bear scaled walls, climbed fences and...
Tags: Eric Garcetti
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Antonio Sanchez concedes L.A. school board race to Monica Ratliff
Antonio Sanchez has conceded to Monica Ratliff in the contest to represent the east San Fernando Valley on the Los Angeles Board of Education. Sanchez congratulated Ratliff in a Facebook posting. "Her commitment to the children of this district is...
Tags: Antonio Villaraigosa, Politics, Elections
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Bell faces 'fiscal crisis' after corruption scandal, audit finds
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.Three years after a massive corruption scandal, Bell's finances have worsen considerably and the city doesn't have the money to refund millions of dollars in taxes illegally levied on residents, according to a state audit released Wednesday. Bell...Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Economy, Business and Finance, Defendants, Accounting and Auditing
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Controller: Progress in Bell, but potential for more problems high
The new leadership in Bell deserves credit for ejecting corrupt city leaders, but if additional problems aren't fixed, the potential for mismanagement and fiscal crisis remains high, state Controller John Chiang said. Chiang issued his final audit on...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Finance, John Chiang, City of Bell Public Corruption Scandal
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Bell city manager calls state audit unfair, defends reform progress
The city manager of Bell called unfair a state report critical of the town’s progress after a massive corruption scandal. State Controller John Chiang issued his final audit on Bell on Wednesday morning, nearly three years after the scandal...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Finance, Theft, John Chiang
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Prosecutors opt to retry five ex-Bell City Council members
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.Former Bell City Councilman Luis Artiga is the only former official who will not be retried for corruption. Artiga, a pastor in Bell, was the only council member fully acquitted by a jury in March on charges of misappropriating public funds and...Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Defendants, Trials, Crimes
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Two dead, one airlifted to hospital in Pomona freeway crash
Two people were killed and one person was airlifted to a hospital after a violent crash on a transition road between the 60 and 71 freeways in Pomona, a California Highway Patrol official said. Just before 9 a.m., a big rig and a large box truck...Tags: Accidental Death
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L.A. County D.A. plans to retry former Bell City Council members
The Los Angeles County district attorney's office plans to retry the case against Bell council members accused of misappropriating public funds by overpaying themselves for sitting on city boards and authorities that rarely met, according to defense...
Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Defendants, Justice and Rights, Trials
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Bell corruption trial: Decision to retry comes next month
Prosecutors said they will announce a decision next month on whether to retry five former Bell City Council members accused of corruption. The council members were convicted last month on some charges, and acquitted on others. The jury deadlocked 9-3 in...
Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Crimes, City of Bell Public Corruption Scandal
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Bell trial: After mistrial, next steps for attorneys unclear
L.A. NOWA day after a judge declared a mistrial on the remaining counts in the Bell corruption trial, saying "all hell had broken loose" with a deeply divided jury, it remained unclear what, if any, steps attorneys might take next.... -
Bell corruption trial ended with jury intimidation, attorneys say
L.A. NOWJury deliberations in the Bell corruption scandal were "very, very tense," according to a juror who described a day of rancor that the judge in the case said seemed to her like “all hell has broken loose.” Judge Kathleen Kennedy...... -
Bell's measure of justice
The mixed verdicts on the six former Bell City Council members might not have offered the clean sweep many residents had hoped for, but they nevertheless served as a welcome confirmation of what everyone already believed to be true: Appalling wrongs...
Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Defendants, Politics, Trials
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