Banks Flagging Frequent Pharmacy Trips, Bulk DVD Rentals, and Other Ordinary Activity to Turn Over Tips to Government Snoops

RICHARD B. LEVINE/NewscomAmerican and British banks are monitoring customers’ contraception purchases, DVD-rental frequency, dining-out habits, and more in a misguided attempt to detect human traffickers, according to a new report from the British think-tank Royal United Services...

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Kentucky Becomes Second State to Add Police to Hate Crimes Law

Jeff Malet Photography/NewscomThis week Republican Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin signed into law House Bill 14, which adds law enforcement and emergency responders to the state’s hate crimes law.
Technically, this is supposed to mean that if somebody intentionally targets a person for a...

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Van Nuys DUI driver gets 30 years to life for killing couple in Arleta

SAN FERNANDO — A Van Nuys man with two prior DUI convictions was ordered to spend 30 years to life in state prison for a DUI crash that killed a married couple in Arleta.
Arsen Panasian, who was sentenced Wednesday, has been behind bars since...

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Trump Creates An Opioid Panel As His Budget Threatens To Worsen Epidemic

WASHINGTON ― At a roundtable discussion on the opioid epidemic Wednesday, President Donald Trump lamented that a crisis which has claimed tens of thousands of lives in recent years has not gotten enough attention. And in an effort to turn the tide, he announced he was forming a commission...

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LAPD activity closes San Fernando off-ramp from westbound 118 Freeway in Pacoima

The CHP reports that the San Fernando Road off-ramp from the westbound 118 Freeway in Pacoima is closed because of unspecified Los Angeles Police Department activity.
The off-ramp is expected to remain closed for the next few...

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NYPD Cop Who Fatally Shot Ramarley Graham Found Guilty Of Bad Judgment

A white New York City police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager in his Bronx apartment in 2012 has resigned, ending years of legal action and investigations, police and the former officer’s attorney said on Monday.


Richard Haste, 35, quit his job on Sunday, two days after...

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Georgia Campus Sexual Assault Survivors And Advocates Oppose Last Minute Move To Pass Controversial Campus Rape Bill

Georgia’s controversial House Bill 51, which would require colleges and universities to report rapes (and other felonies) to the police whether or not the survivor consents, was unanimously tabled by the state Senate Judiciary Committee last Thursday to give the legislature more time to...

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Man taken into custody following 5-hour standoff in Santa Clarita

SANTA CLARITA >> A 47-year-old man with a shotgun holed up inside his Santa Clarita home for more than five hours, and then surrendered Sunday without incident.
Marc Spitzer was arrested at 6:47 a.m. on suspicion of assault with a deadly...

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Shooting Inside Packed Cincinnati Nightclub Kills At Least One Person And Wounds 14

CINCINNATI (Reuters) – Gunfire erupted inside a packed nightclub in Cincinnati, Ohio, early Sunday morning, killing at least one person and injuring 14, and police said they were still looking for the shooter.


The motive was unclear, but Cincinnati Assistant Police Chief Paul...

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113 sexual harassment cases reported in the University of California system in 3 years

At UC Irvine, one employee left sex toys in another employee’s work area.
He was fired.
At UC Riverside, a supervisor repeatedly stuck his face into a co-worker’s neck to smell her perfume.
He was suspended for two days.
At UCLA, a...

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12-Year-Old Girl Last Seen Walking To Family Barn

Authorities in South Carolina are searching for a 12-year-old girl who disappeared after going for a walk.


Zoey Carles was last seen at around 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, walking away from her Clinton home toward a barn on the premises. Clinton is located about 45 miles southeast of...

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Body of Maricela Garcia, missing Tarzana woman, identified by coroner

The remains of a decomposed body discovered in Santa Clarita earlier this month have been identified as those of a missing Tarzana woman last seen near a Goodwill in Reseda more than two months ago.
The body was identified Tuesday by...

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Very Good Police Dog Nabs 3 Suspects In 90 Minutes

Somebody get this police dog a victory bone.


Spencer, a 9-year-old Dutch shepherd, pulled off an accomplishment of epic proportions when he helped the Oregon’s Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office locate three suspects in the span of 90 minutes, officials said in a statement.


“It’s a rare...

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Death sentence upheld for Van Nuys killer who burned ex-girlfriend

LOS ANGELES >> The California Supreme Court upheld a former Van Nuys resident’s conviction and death sentence for burning his ex-girlfriend alive in her car, which was found on the side of a North Hollywood freeway, officials said...

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NY Attorney General Hires Prosecutor To Target Trump: Report

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has reportedly hired a prosecutor to examine the activities of the Trump administration.


Schneiderman has tapped public-corruption expert Howard McMaster from the office of former Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, The Wall Street...

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Russia-backed Crimea Chief Says Putin Should Be President For Life

The Russian-backed prime minister of Crimea said on Saturday that Vladimir Putin should be made president of Russia for life and that the Soviet Union would never have collapsed had Putin been in charge.


Sergei Aksyonov, marking the third anniversary of the day he signed off on Russia’s...

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Blasphemy charges create climate of fear for Pakistani media

ISLAMABAD >> Ahmad Waqas Goraya couldn’t see anything through the black hood, but he could hear the screams.
A blogger with a penchant for criticizing Pakistan’s powerful military and taking the government to task, Goraya was...

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Sheriff Invites Guests To His Wedding In Criminally Funny Way

A sheriff invited guests to his wedding in the best way he knew how.


At first glance, the fake “Notice to Appear” bears a striking resemblance to a citation. But on closer inspection, it’s clear that it’s actually an invite to the nuptials of two people identified as Matt and Nancy on...

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Charges filed against Riverside mother accused of abandoning daughter in grocery store

The Riverside woman who police say abandoned her 2-year-old daughter at a supermarket has been charged with two felonies.
Chiengkham Vilaysane, 31, was charged Thursday, March 16, with desertion of a child under 14 years old and abuse or...

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Somebody Donated A Cooler Filled With Weed To Goodwill

Police said the workers at the Goodwill store in Monroe were sorting through donations when they stumbled across the marijuana haul.


“We went over there and they opened the lid and in there was five large bags of marijuana,” Debbie Willis of the Monroe Police Department told KTLA5....

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Family faces undocumented immigrant charged in woman’s death

The fiancé of a woman allegedly killed by an undocumented immigrant lashed out at the system Tuesday after the suspect appeared in court for a preliminary hearing.
Estuardo Alvarado, 45, who was deported from the U.S. five times, is...

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How Murder Victims With Disabilities Get Blamed For Their Own Deaths

Alex Spourdalakis was 14 when his mother and godmother decided to kill him.


The women tried to poison the boy, who had autism, with sleeping pills. When that failed, Dorothy Spourdalakis stabbed her son four times in the chest with a kitchen knife, twice hitting his heart. She slit one of...

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Possible human skull found by firefighters battling Sherman Oaks brush fire

SHERMAN OAKS >> Los Angeles firefighters discovered possible human remains down a steep ravine after responding to a brush fire call in Sherman Oaks Saturday, authorities said.
At about 3:30 p.m. Saturday, as the Los Angeles Fire Department...

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White House Intruder Faces 10-Year Sentence

An intruder carrying a backpack was arrested after scaling a fence around the White House and entering the grounds, the U.S. Secret Service said on Saturday, in the latest breach of security at the president’s official residence.


President Donald Trump was inside the White House when the...

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How a child in a pile of a million tiny Orbeez gel balls got these adults arrested

Two people have been cited with child endangerment after videos surfaced of a child sitting in the bed of a truck full of engorged gel beads as it drove around Corona and then dumping the beads onto a city street.
The Corona Police Department...

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Richard Simmons Is 'Perfectly Fine,' LAPD Says After Visit

A Los Angeles police detective has dispelled claims surrounding the disappearance of fitness guru Richard Simmons, telling People on Thursday that the fitness guru is “perfectly fine.”


Simmons, 68, has been the subject of extreme speculation because he has reportedly not been since in...

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Stabbing victim found dead in forest above La Cañada Flintridge identified as Palmdale man

ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST >> Authorities have identified a 35-year-old stabbing victim whose body was found along the side of a road deep in the forest north of La Cañada Flintridge last week.
A hiker discovered the remains of Anthony James...

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Texas Executes Hitman Who Killed Woman For $2,000

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Texas on Tuesday executed a man convicted of accepting $2,000 to murder a woman from the victim’s husband and her brother-in-law, who were looking to collect $400,000 from life insurance policies they took out on her.


Roland Ruiz, 44, was put to death by...

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1 in custody after Grant High Internet threat, lockdown lifted

A 16-year-old was taken into custody Monday near the campus of Ulysses S. Grant High School in Valley Glen after an apparent threat over the Internet locked down the school for more than four hours, authorities said.
Officers went to the...

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Report: Marines Probed For Posting Nude Photos Of Female Colleagues

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One Direction’s Louis Tomlinson arrested at LAX following scuffle with photographer

LOS ANGELES >> One Direction singer Louis Tomlinson was arrested on suspicion of simple battery for allegedly pulling a photographer to the floor at Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said Saturday.
Tomlinson, 25, was...

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California Files Freedom Of Information Request To Learn What ICE Is Up To

California legislators have filed a Freedom of Information Act request to learn what federal immigration authorities are up to in their state.


The request was filed this week by California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon and Senate President Pro Tem Kevin De Leon, both Democrats, for...

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Man hit by gunfire in Atwater Village

A man was shot in the shoulder Thursday morning in Atwater Village, authorities said.
The incident was reported at 6:20 a.m. in the 3000 block of Gilroy Street, said Los Angeles Police Department Officer Mike Lopez.
The injured man was...

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3 Years, 5 Horrific Hate-Crime Killings In The Kansas City Area

OLATHE, Kan. ― Outside Austins Bar & Grill stands a tall, bare tree. Affixed to its trunk is a large pink poster board with the word “love” written on it in black Sharpie. On the ground at its foot are flowers and cards, all doing their best to say: You are welcome here. We love you....

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