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California may join multi-state mortgage settlement - Los Angeles Times
... Angeles Times With a Monday deadline at hand, California officials have resumed direct talks with the Obama administration about joining a multibillion-dollar, multi-state mortgage settlement with the nation's largest banks, a source said Sunday.
One child may be the victim of two Miramonte teachers - Los Angeles Times
Law enforcement sources said Saturday that detectives believe the girl whose parents complained was a victim of both Berndt and Springer. She is one of the two students whose allegations led to Springer's arrest, and detectives have been investigating ...
DNA key in case against Ocampo, DA says - Los Angeles Times
The friend, who requested anonymity because the investigation is ongoing, said Ocampo's perplexing mental state was noted. Rackauckas said Estrada's body was found in the kitchen. Prosecutors believe that Juan Herrera tried to escape out the front door ...
Dodgers reach agreement with reliever Todd Coffey - Los Angeles Times
The Dodgers have reached an agreement with reliever Todd Coffey on a one-year contract, according to a person familiar with the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the deal is pending a physical. The contract, which includes a ...
Germany intelligence agency criticized for spying on lawmakers - Los Angeles Times
"The federal intelligence agency didn't know what the 16 state agencies knew," said an official at the federal intelligence agency, speaking on condition of anonymity. "There must be better communication among the various intelligence agencies and ...
Germany intelligence agency criticized for spying on lawmakers - Los Angeles Times
"The federal intelligence agency didn't know what the 16 state agencies knew," said an official at the federal intelligence agency, speaking on condition of anonymity. "There must be better communication among the various intelligence agencies and ...
Could 'August: Osage County' finally jump to the big screen? - Los Angeles Times
According to another person at the company who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to talk about internal matters, Letts, who had been adapting his own play for the screen, recently turned in his screenplay to the company and ...
Feud clouds fate of 'Clybourne Park' - Los Angeles Times
The New York Post reported Wednesday, and a source close to the production confirmed, that Norris, who is also an actor, had backed out of a commitment to star in a pilot for a Rudin-produced HBO adaptation of Jonathan Franzen's bestselling novel, ...
Accused teacher blindfolded kids for 'tasting' test, source says - Los Angeles Times
Children told investigators that they were being enlisted in a tasting game, according to a district source who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak. They were supposed to say whether the substance was sweet or salty and ...
Accused teacher blindfolded kids for 'tasting' test, source says - Los Angeles Times
Children told investigators that they were being enlisted in a tasting game, according to a district source who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak. They were supposed to say whether the substance was sweet or salty and ...
Parents invited teacher accused of abuse to parties, quinceañeras - Los Angeles Times
"Parents loved him," said the district source who asked not to be named because he is not authorized to speak. "But the investigators felt the relationship was unnaturally close to the children." The mother of the 10-year-old said she he had heard ...
Feds probe nearly $1 million in payments by Coliseum officials - Los Angeles Times
... on about nearly $1 million in payments given during the last several years to a representative for the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, according to the sources, who requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak.
Teacher charged with lewd acts allegedly told kids it was 'game' - Los Angeles Times
A Miramonte Elementary School teacher who taught for three decades in South LA told students they would be playing "a game" before tying them up and feeding them from a spoon possibly containing semen, sources said. Mark Berndt, 61, who is charged with ...
Details emerge in case involving sheriff's captain placed on leave - Los Angeles Times
White is suspected of inappropriately accessing law enforcement databases, according to sources with knowledge of the investigation who requested anonymity because the investigation is ongoing. Both Abram and White hung up when called to comment for ...
Sudanese rebels kidnap Chinese construction workers - Los Angeles Times
REPORTING FROM BEIJING -- Sudanese rebels have kidnapped about 30 Chinese construction workers who were building a road in a remote stretch of the country, Chinese and Sudanese sources said Sunday. The workers' camp in South Kordofan was attacked late ...
Ron Burkle might still have a role in future of Dodgers - Los Angeles Times
With the opening round of bidding concluded, Burkle might consider backing groups led by Rick Caruso or Stanley Gold, according to a person familiar with the sale process but not authorized to discuss it. McCourt and his bankers cut the list of ...
'The Grey' director Joe Carnahan has a death wish - Los Angeles Times
Now Carnahan has landed a new gig: He's being hired to write and direct a remake of "Death Wish," the 1974 vigilante picture that helped put Charles Bronson on the map, according to a person familiar with the project who asked not to be identified ...
New details in fatal shooting at Hollywood Thai restaurant - Los Angeles Times
The shooting Friday night appears to have resulted from an argument on the patio of the eatery, police sources said. A man at the restaurant allegedly pulled out a gun and pointed it at a woman, who tried to grab the weapon.
TSA mistakes insulin pump for gun, causing LAX security scare - Los Angeles Times
An insulin pump mistaken for a gun at LAX led officials to delay boarding and screening Friday morning at Terminal 4 as airport authorities searched for a woman who they thought had a weapon, law enforcement sources said. The incident occurred around ...
Steve Garvey's Dodgers bid signs up heavy hitter - Los Angeles Times
One of the power brokers in American sports has aligned himself with former Dodger stars Steve Garvey and Orel Hershiser in their effort to buy the team, according to two people briefed on the matter. Harvey Schiller, the former president of the ...
Demi Moore not getting special treatment over 911 tape, city says - Los Angeles Times
Other agencies refuse to release 911 tapes all together, said the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the case remains open. It is unclear when the tape will be released. Paramedics rushed to Moore's home near Benedict Canyon on ...
Japanese officials kept nuclear report on evacuations secret - Los Angeles Times
The government said it wouldn't release the report, even after the Associated Press got it from an anonymous source. At the same time the government stayed quiet about the warnings, then-Prime Minister Naoto Kan insisted that he was being utterly ...
Initial foreclosure filings fall 11.9% in fourth quarter - Los Angeles Times
The settlement would include a principal reduction element that could write down the mortgage debt of certain homeowners by an average of $20000, according to a person familiar with the deal. But several other consumer groups and some lawmakers remain ...
Obama expected to announce unit investigating mortgage crisis - Los Angeles Times
By Alejandro Lazo President Obama is expected to announce the creation of a Mortgage Crisis unit that will probe misconduct leading up to the housing bust, according to a person familiar with the announcement. The office will be a new unit in the ...
Body parts case: Victim reported missing 8 days before head found - Los Angeles Times
9 to police after he said the Hollywood resident failed to return home, two sources said. Medellin's head was found in a bag Jan. 17 by dog walkers on a Bronson Canyon trail not far from his home. A subsequent search with cadaver dogs turned up two ...