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County probation executive Carl Washington to plead guilty to fraud
L.A. NOWA Los Angeles County probation executive and former state legislator has agreed to plead guilty to fraud charges, authorities said Monday. Carl Edward Washington, 47, was arrested last fall for allegedly defrauding Farmers and Merchants Bank, First City... -
L.A. County dithered, children died
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBy the time he was rescued last year, the 5-year-old South Los Angeles boy was so malnourished his kidneys were failing. His hands were so badly burned he could barely open them. Child welfare officials traced his history, trying to make sense of what...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles, Career and Workplace, Child Abuse
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Yvonne Burke lobbying former colleagues on L.A. County Board of Supervisors
L.A. NOWYvonne B. Burke, who stepped down as a Los Angeles County supervisor in 2008, has returned to the Hall of Administration as a registered lobbyist. Burke recently filed paperwork showing that she accepted $10,000 in January to represent East Shore...... -
Flawed county system lets children die invisibly
Miguel Padilla ran away from a licensed group home in April 2008, but he didn't go far.
Unknown to anyone at the time, the 17-year-old amputee made his way to a stand of trees near the main driveway. Using his one arm, he climbed into the branches,...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Los Angeles, Career and Workplace, Gang Activity, Health and Safety at Work
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Ethics Probe Launched Into Lawmaker's Local Home
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterU.S. Rep. Laura Richardson's rundown Sacramento house, which became the scourge of the neighborhood and a sore point with an investor who thought he had bought it out of foreclosure, has drawn the interest of a House ethics panel. The Office of...Tags: Foreclosures, Values, Laura Richardson, Washington (U.S. state), Ethics
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Audit finds L.A. County supervisors' behind-the-scenes effort to control policy
L.A. NOWA long awaited audit released by Los Angeles County officials found that the Board of Supervisors often use behind-the-scenes levers to control the inner workings of the Regional Planning Department, whose decisions are key to hotly contested battles over... -
Plastic-bag ban unravels
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLos Angeles County supervisors backed off a threat Tuesday to ban plastic shopping and grocery bags that environmental experts call unsightly and destructive. Instead, officials chose the weakest of five alternatives recommended by county executives: a...Tags: Gloria Molina, Nevada, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Career and Workplace
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How a hospital death became a cause celebre
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt might have gone down as the death of a "quasi-transient" woman with a history of abusing drugs. That's how the May 9 death of Edith Isabel Rodriguez was initially reported to the Los Angeles County coroner's office. But five weeks later, her demise...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Gloria Molina, Hospitals and Clinics, Los Angeles, CNN (tv network)
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Close King-Harbor
MARTIN LUTHER KING Jr.-Harbor Hospital's history has been its saving grace and, perhaps, its curse. Born in promise as a response to the neglect that helped spark the 1965 Watts riots, the hospital became an institution focused more on the interests of...Tags: Nursing, Hospitals and Clinics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Health and Medical Professionals
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Letters to the editor
Burke's domestic dispute Re "Supervisor's residence outside district raises legal questions," July 27 I live in Ladera Heights, and until Friday, I thought that Los Angeles County Supervisor Yvonne B. Burke represented me. Thanks to The Times, I now know...Tags: Vice (movie), Television, Surgery, Prisons, Hospitals and Clinics
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A choice, for a change
Like popes, Los Angeles County supervisors have to win an election to land the job, but once in, they're sitting pretty. The last time there was a contested supervisor election, George Bush was president -- the Bush who didn't send U.S. forces into...Tags: Civil Rights, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Police Department, Career and Workplace, Los Angeles
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The incredible plastic bag
In their Aug. 15 Blowback, L.A. County Supervisors Yvonne B. Burke and Zev Yaroslavsky argue that consumers should be charged a 25-cent tax for each plastic bag they use. The Times of London wrote in a March 8 editorial, "Many of those who have...Tags: Waste Management Incorporated, Zev Yaroslavsky, Los Angeles, Waste, Global Warming
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