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11-year-old Girl Raped by 8 Gang Members at Public Park, police say
KTLA NewsMORENO VALLEY (KTLA) -- Eight suspected gang members are facing charges in the brutal rape of an 11-year-old girl in a park restroom. The oldest of the suspects, Michael Sykes, 19, was arrested at a Moreno Valley home on Monday. He is charged with rape,...Tags: KTLA, Crimes, Rape, Juvenile Delinquency, Career and Workplace
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After 41 Years, Police Close Leon Jordan Murder Case
Citing alack of living witnesses and suspects, the Jackson County Prosecutor's office finally cleared the Civil Rights-era Leon Jordan murder case.
Police re-opened it last year at the urging of Alvin Sykes who pushes authorities to re-open old civil...Tags: Missouri, Crimes, African Americans, Justice and Rights, Civil Rights
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Another kind of guide
![The way to approach Texas is from space — you see the United States, the land mass south of everything looms up at the bottom of the country, Oklahoma rushes past, the sky gets dusty, boom, you're in a used-car lot outside Dallas, humid. Texas is so daunting, I always think of Texas as a used-car lot and always imagine it from space. Which, you gather from "Trillin on Texas" (University of Texas Press, $22), is how Calvin Trillin, the longtime New Yorker writer, sees Texas — as a vast tan pancake only understood by homing close, pulling back, then diving back, then leaving. If you have never been to Texas, "Trillin on Texas" will not give you directions to Houston or point you to a Mexican breakfast. But it will, as only an outsider can do, reveal its character.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-06/62653594-22074016.jpg "The way to approach Texas is from space — you see the United States, the land mass south of everything looms up at the bottom of the country, Oklahoma rushes past, the sky gets dusty, boom, you're in a used-car lot outside Dallas, humid. Texas is so daunting, I always think of Texas as a used-car lot and always imagine it from space. Which, you gather from "Trillin on Texas\" (University of Texas Press, $22), is how Calvin Trillin, the longtime New Yorker writer, sees Texas — as a vast tan pancake only understood by homing close, pulling back, then diving back, then leaving. If you have never been to Texas, \"Trillin on Texas\" will not give you directions to Houston or point you to a Mexican breakfast. But it will, as only an outsider can do, reveal its character.")
The way to approach Texas is from space — you see the United States, the land mass south of everything looms up at the bottom of the country, Oklahoma rushes past, the sky gets dusty, boom, you're in a used-car lot outside Dallas, humid. Texas is so...Tags: Ellis Island, Punishment, Dallas, Houston, Mexico
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J. Paul Getty III dies at 54; scion of oil dynasty
J. Paul Getty III, a scion of the Getty oil dynasty whose tragedies — mutilation by kidnappers in the early 1970s and an incapacitating, drug-induced stroke in the 1980s — brought into high relief the dysfunctional relations that beset his...Tags: Criminals, Crimes, Kidnapping, Italy, Juvenile Delinquency
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Timothy Olyphant's Raylan Givens has a romance and a bromance on 'Justified'
Zap2ItOne of the themes of FX's "Justified," which premiered its second season last Wednesday is, "Can you go home again?" … perhaps followed by, "The more things change, the more they stay the same." In season one of the drama inspired by characters created...Tags: Crimes, Mining, Human Interest, FX (tv channel), Metal and Mineral
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Guilty Verdict In Murder-For-Hire Scheme Of Lasik Eye Surgeon
Web ReporterA Newcastle Lasik eye surgeon was found guilty Thursday for trying to hire a hit man to kill two business associates. Dr. Michael Mockovak is the co-founder of Clearly Lasik. He was found guilty of hiring a hit man to kill business partner Joseph King...Tags: Surgery, Theft, Employers, Elections, Crimes
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Mobster fugitive captured in rural Idaho
MARSING, Idaho (AP) - For more than a decade, the vast farm fields of rural southwestern Idaho provided Enrico Ponzo the isolation he needed to hide from his past as a former New England mobster accused of trying to whack his boss. He introduced himself...Tags: Crimes, Assault, Homes, New Jersey, Crime, Law and Justice
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Local Armenians Fear Judgment After Gang Raids
KTLA NewsGLENDALE (KTLA) -- Many Armenians in Glendale are fearing a rush to judgment after local and federal authorities instituted a major crackdown on Armenian organized crime Wednesday. Seventy-four members and associates of the Armenian Power syndicate...Tags: KTLA, California, Elections, Crimes, Corporate Crime
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Accused Mobster Arrested On Idaho Ranch
He's an accused Mafia mobster, on the run for 17 years.
But now he's behind bars after apparently leading a double life as an Idaho farmer.
For at least the last ten years, a man who called himself Jeffrey Shaw lived at a quiet little ranch in...Tags: Crimes, Homes, Organized Crime, New Jersey, Idaho
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Political Landscape: Schiff still fighting for genocide resolution
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) and other advocates for a congressional resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide are taking a new tack this year, seeking both a genocide recognition vote and approval of a measure condemning religious discrimination...Tags: Sherman Oaks, Crimes, Glendale (Los Angeles, California), Jerry Brown, Carol Liu
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Our Laguna: Warm and witty honors for Laguna's 'rescuer'
Ann Hutchinson Quilter has never been one to pat herself on the back, not even at a luncheon in her honor. Speakers at the Laguna Beach Woman's Club Woman of the Year luncheon heaped praise on Quilter for her accomplishments on behalf of the city. But...Tags: Meteorological Disasters, U.S. Marine Corps, Disasters and Accidents, Tropical Storms, Homes
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Gatto, Portantino take issue with colleague's 'Soprano' quip
Two local members of the Assembly with Italian heritage took umbrage at comments made Wednesday by Assemblyman Don Wagner (R-Irvine). In skewering the proposal to eliminate the state’s 400-plus redevelopment agencies, Wagner likened the plan to a...Tags: Jerry Brown, Tony Soprano (fictional character), Republican Party
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