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Oct 8, 2024 · The Race for District Attorney: Gascón & Hochman Debate. October 8, 2024. Written by Celeste Fremon. 6 Comments. LA District Attorney George Gascón and challenger Nathan Hochman squared off in in an hour-long debate on Tuesday, Oct 1, which may be the last opportunity that voters have to see them take each other on before November...
Bringing Balance to the Bench - witnessla.com
Correction: This story originally identified Anna Reitano, Holly Hancock, and Elizabeth Lashley-Haynes as former public defenders. These judicial candidates are still working in the public defender’s office while campaigning, however. Image: LA County sample ballot for June 7, 2022 primary election.
Former LA Sheriff’s Lieutenant & Son Federally Indicted for …
Jul 7, 2017 · Former Los Angeles Sheriff’s Lieutenant, and His Son, a Former Compton Cop, Indicted for Cross-Country Drug & Money Laundering Conspiracy . Last week twenty-two alleged members and associates of two street gangs, the Los Angeles-based Grape Street Crips, and the Memphis-based Peda Roll Mafia, were indicted by a federal grand jury for being part of a reported drug and money laundering ...
41st and Central, 1969 – The Black Panther Shootout & the birth …
Apr 6, 2011 · But the Panthers’ meteoric rise drew enemies—lots of them. On January 17, 1969, Carter and fellow Panther John Huggins were shot to death in UCLA’s Campbell Hall by members of the rival black radical group Us. Agents, operating under the FBI’s infamous COINTEL (counterintelligence) program and masquerading as Panthers and anonymous Us ...
Unsuitable: State oversight commission pronounces LA County’s …
Feb 17, 2024 · At or around 4 p.m. on Thursday, February 15, after many hours of discussion, plus a string of comments from youth advocates, probation staff, and others, the California Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) completed the task of finding both Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall, and Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall to be “unsuitable” for …
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Update on LASD recruits injured, several critically, when hit by speeding SUV in devastating incident. November 16, 2022. Slightly before 6:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, November 16, an SUV traveling southbound on Mills...
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New LA Innocence Project, Funded by Exoneree, Will Partner With ...
Aug 23, 2022 · Photo: Paula Mitchell, director of the LAIP at Cal State LA, speaks during a news conference on Aug. 19 announcing the new partnership. Mitchell was joined by Cal State LA Executive Vice President and Provost Jose A. Gomez, exoneree and founding donor of the project Andrew Wilson, State Sen. Bob Hertzberg, State Sen. Steven Bradford, Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo, and Katherine Roberts ...
WitnessLA’s Taylor Walker Awarded Los Angeles Press Club’s First …
Dec 19, 2020 · The Los Angeles Press Club just announced the three winners of their first-ever grant for reporting on systemic racism. Happily, WitnessLA’s Assistant Editor Taylor Walker is one of the three Southern California journalists who were chosen for these these new grants.
LA Homeboys – Then & Now
Sep 26, 2007 · He is now a husband, a dad—and an associate producer on a long-running, very popular network TV series, the name of which you would assuredly know. Eventually he wants to direct. (He’s also in the midst of writing his own feature script. Naturally. As a teenager, Stranger got his eye shot out by an enemy homeboy.