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LOS ANGELES TIMES News, Apr 20, 2012

Getting a read on the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
Los Angeles Times
(Jay L. Clendenin, Los Angeles Times / March 14, 2012) By Nick Owchar,Los Angeles Times What do Sugar Ray Leonard, Judy Blume, Betty White, TC Boyle, Rodney King, Joseph Wambaugh and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar have in common?
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Los Angeles Times reporter backs publication of photos of troops with dead ...
Washington Post
The writer said he'd read some of the articles Los Angeles Times reporter David Zucchino had written from Afghanistan. He was impressed. He also mentioned that he had some information that he believed was imperiling “the discipline, security and good ...
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Los Angeles officer who busted celebrity 'bling ring' plays himself in movie ...
Washington Post
The Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/J2Z4Uv ) says Goodkin also plays himself in the movie. A recently filmed scene shows him slapping handcuffs on a suspect played by Emma Watson. But trials are still pending for three defendants in the case and ...
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Los Angeles Times reporter on those gory photos and Pentagon pressure
Washington Post (blog)
By Erik Wemple David Zucchino, who landed the controversial Los Angeles Times scoop that includes gory photos of Army soldiers showing off the severed limbs of Afghan suicide bombers, says that yesterday he and his editors took on a lot of “incoming.
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Still LA's 'transportation mayor'
Los Angeles Times
(Los Angeles Times / April 18, 2012) Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa came into office seven years ago with a remarkably ambitious agenda, proposing to solve many of LA's most intractable problems: He would be the mayor who fixed the schools, cleaned up the ...
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'Bling ring' detective's work on movie could hurt prosecution's case
Boston Herald
By Amy Kaufman / Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — When filmmaker Sofia Coppola set out to tell the story of the "bling ring," she wanted the movie to have an authentic, docudrama sensibility. So the daughter of Francis Ford Coppola reached out to the ...
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'Bling Ring' detective Brett Goodkin consults for movie, may complicate ...
CBS News
The Los Angeles Times reports that filmmaker Coppola wanted to tell the story of the alleged "bling ring" accurately and authentically, so she contacted Brett Goodkin, a Los Angeles Police Department detective who cracked the case of the San Fernando ...
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CBS News
Jeffrey Chandler dies at 70; part of family that built the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
(Tribune.com / April 19, 2012) By Mitchell Landsberg, Los Angeles Times Jeffrey Chandler, an influential member of the family that built the Los Angeles Times and the last person with the Chandler name to play a significant role in the newspaper's ...
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Los Angeles Times
Ex-appraiser says he cut values in hopes of donations to assessor
Los Angeles Times
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times / April 10, 2012) By Jack Dolan and Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times A former county appraiser who secretly and improperly slashed tens of millions of dollars from the taxable values of Westside properties in late ...
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Los Angeles Times
Suns keep run to playoffs rolling with 93-90 win over Clippers
Boston Herald
By Broderick Turner / Los Angeles Times PHOENIX — When the game turned physical in the fourth quarter, when Blake Griffin, Mo Williams and Phoenix reserve center Robin Lopez got involved in an exchange, both the Los Angeles Clippers and Suns then ...
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Dodgers avoid sweep by Brewers as Kemp, Ethier come through
Boston Herald
By Jim Peltz / Los Angeles Times MILWAUKEE — Aaron Harang made history in his previous outing, and the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher and his teammates on Thursday made sure they avoided a different kind of milestone. The Dodgers were in danger of losing ...
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Are Vikings Eyeing Move To Los Angeles?
FOX43.com
By Sam Farmer Los Angeles Times With the Vikings' hope of a new stadium in Minnesota growing more bleak by the day, the NFL has brought in its top executives to address the situation -- with the ever-present threat of a relocation to Los Angeles ...
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Review: BierBeisl, a modern Austrian for Southern California
Los Angeles Times
(Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times / April 12, 2012) By S. Irene Virbila Los Angeles Times Restaurant Critic "Grammel schmalz," says our waiter, setting down a small bowl of pristine whipped white pork fat sprinkled with bits of pork crackling.
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Bill Plaschke: Albert Pujols says it's about wins, not homers
Boston Herald
By Bill Plaschke / Los Angeles Times Baseball's best power hitter strolls to the plate at 7:17 pm Thursday and a stadium grows silent. A dozen games ago those fans were standing, but they have long since been left hanging, so now they are plopped on ...
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LA Times' Book Prizes and Festival of Books: Coming right up!
Los Angeles Times (blog)
The 2012 Festival of Books is almost upon us: Panel sessions get started Saturday at 10 am Before that happens, though, the Los Angeles Times' Book Prizes will be presented Friday night at USC's Bovard Auditorium. There are a number of ways to get ...
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Police union sues city, LAPD over new auto impound policy
Los Angeles Times
By Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times The Los Angeles Police Protective League filed suit Wednesday against the city and its Police Department over a controversial policy that will limit cases in which police officers impound vehicles of drivers ...
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Karzai condemns US troop photos
The Daily Advertiser
The front page of the Los Angeles Times newspaper is shown at the Hollywood Universal News stand in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The photograph, lower left, obtained and published by the Los Angeles Times, show American soldiers posing with the bloodied ...
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'Bling ring' detective working on movie
San Francisco Chronicle
Informed by the Los Angeles Times of Goodkin's role, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office expressed shock: "We did not know, and now that we do we have to evaluate what impact this may have." Legal experts said Goodkin's ...
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Secret sheriff's clique probed in Los Angeles County
College Times
By Robert Faturechi, Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County sheriff's detectives have launched a probe into what appears to be a secret deputy clique within the department's elite gang unit, an investigation triggered by the discovery of a ...
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LA Mayor's Budget to Include Layoffs, Benefit Changes
NBC Los Angeles
According to documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times, the mayor will seek an end to packages that allow some employees to continue receiving nearly 100 percent of their salaries after retiring. He also wants to raise the retirement age to 67, ...
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How did Delta pilot stay so calm after bird strike? Give a listen
Los Angeles Times
By Mary Forgione Los Angeles Times Daily Travel & Deal blogger The voice of the Delta Air Lines captain on Flight 1063 on Thursday sounds beyond calm as he informs air traffic controllers: "Aaaand Delta 1063 has had an engine failure on the right ...
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Lakers' Bryant expected back tonight against Spurs
SportingNews.com
He didn't hesitate when asked by the Los Angeles Times whether he could play all 48 minutes against the Spurs. Kobe Bryant will return to the court on Friday. (AP photo) Bryan has been sidelined for two weeks by the sore left shin, but in his absence ...
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Governor joked about violating open-meeting law in talk with supervisors
Los Angeles Times
(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) By Jason Song, Los Angeles TimesDuring a closed-door session with Los Angeles County supervisors last fall, California Gov. Jerry Brown made a comment acknowledging that there would be questions about whether the ...
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Jesse Linares dies at 49; journalist helped launch Hoy Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times
Hoy is owned by the Tribune Co., parent company of the Los Angeles Times. Born Feb. 25, 1963, in El Salvador, Linares came to the United States during the Salvadoran civil war. He studied journalism and political science at Cal State Northridge and ...
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Los Angeles Times
Afghanistan leader seeks swifter troop pullout amid photos furor
Los Angeles Times
(Noorullah Shirzada / AFP/Getty Images / April 19, 2012) By Laura King, Los Angeles Times KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai suggested Thursday that a speeded-up departure of Western troops is the only way to prevent a recurrence of "painful...
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Los Angeles Times
Fashion News - LA Times - Los Angeles Times
By Susan Denley
Fashion news. Giorgio Armani released sketches of some of the costumes he's designed for Lady Gaga to wear on her Born This Way Ball tour. Jeweler Jacob & Co. already is offering a knockoff of the one Brad Pitt gave Angelina Jolie.
All The Rage
MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry brings her analytical POV to cable ...
By Joy Press
MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry brings her analytical POV to cable news. April 20, 2012 | 7:45 am. increase text size decrease text size. Melissa harris perry msnbc. As a tenured professor of political science at Tulane University in New Orleans, ...
Show Tracker
CCMA panelist bios for 2012 career workshop | California College ...
By admin
She has been a journalist for more than 25 years, including 10 years at the Los Angeles Times' website, where her work won several awards. A native Californian, Diana launched her professional career covering preps for the DailyNews.
California College Media Association
Boy reportedly detained in shooting of 13-year-old in face - latimes ...
By Esmeralda Bermudez
L.A. Now is the Los Angeles Times' breaking news section for Southern California. It is produced by more than 80 reporters and editors in The Times' Metro section, reporting from the paper's downtown Los Angeles headquarters as well as ...
L.A. NOW
Michael Sandel (What Money Can't Buy) in the news…We host him ...
By admin
Michael Sandel (What Money Can't Buy) in the news…We host him May 9 in ...May 9th at All Saints Church in Pasadena. He'll be in conversation with Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times columnist and host of The Patt Morrison Show on KPCC.
Live Talks Los Angeles
Campus Times » Fine journalism should be free
By Campus Times Editorial
24 it was announced that starting March 5 “the Los Angeles Times will begin charging readers for access to its online news, joining a growing roster of majornews organizations looking for a way to offset declines in revenue.” Those who do ...
Campus Times
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Highlights | Daily Trojan
By gosorio
Perfect for both elementary school students as well as adults reminiscing over their childhoods, Blume's sit-down with Los Angeles Times television columnist Mary McNamara will involve discussion of Blume's best-known and best-loved works, including Double Fudge and Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. ....“Liberal” and “conservative” are two labels that dominate our daily lives, whether on news programs or in conversations with fellow students. Although the terms are .
Daily Trojan
L.A. Times' Book Prizes and Festival of Books: Coming right up ...
By Carolyn Kellogg
The 2012 Festival of Books is almost upon us: Panel sessions get started Saturday at 10 a.m. Before that happens, though, the Los Angeles Times' Book Prizes will be presented Friday night at USC's Bovard Auditorium. There are a number... ... Follow the official @LATimesbooksTwitter feed for news of the award winners as they are announced. I'll be working the feed's levers, so keep an eye out for behind-the-scenes photos and whatever insights I might be able to share -- if, say, ...
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No Violence Following LA Times Photos « The Talk Radio News ...
By Justin Duckham
There have been no reports of violence attributed to the Los Angeles Timesphotos depicting soldiers posing with a Taliban corpse Pentagon officials confirmed Friday. Fearing that their publication could incite hostility in Afghanistan, the ...
The Talk Radio News Service
Joe Henry On Levon Helm In The Los Angeles Times
By John
Yet already in that moment, for many of us sadly absorbing the falling shoe of this news and preparing for the other to drop, he had assumed the flickering posture of memory; of those who had danced alive in our high beams, throwing...
Anti Blog
U.S. troops posed with body parts of Afghan ... - Los Angeles Times
U.S. troops posed with body parts of Afghan bombers. An American soldier says he released the photos to the Los Angeles Times to draw attention to the safety ...
www.latimes.com/.../la-na-afghan-photos-20120418,0,503260...
Did Los Angeles Times make right call on photos of dead Afghans?
The front page of the Los Angeles Times newspaper that showed American soldiers posing with the bloodied remains of dead insurgents in Afghanistan.
www.csmonitor.com/.../Did-Los-Angeles-Times-make-right-ca...
Los Angeles Times reporter backs publication of photos of troops with dead Afghan insurgents
In the News. Secret Service .... The writer said he'd read some of the articlesLos Angeles Times reporter David Zucchino had written from Afghanistan. He was ...
www.washingtonpost.com/.../gIQApiWFUT_story.html
Photos of US soldiers posing with Afghan corpses prompt condemnation
... of Afghan insurgents. The Los Angeles Times published two pictures Wednesdays. ... The country's main evening news broadcasts did not show the photos.
www.latimes.com/.../la-na-afghan-photos-20120419,0,509813...
Trayvon Martin case: Why did prosecutor forgo ... - Los Angeles Times
Trayvon Martin case: Why did a Florida prosecutor side-step the grand jury? Does it suggest the ...
www.latimes.com/.../la-na-nn-trayvon-martin-case-what-does-...
Trayvon Martin case - Los Angeles Times
Trayvon Martin case: A successful prosecution -- and defense -- of George Zimmerman will ...
www.latimes.com/.../la-na-nn-trayvon-martin-legal-analysis-2...
Did Los Angeles Times make right call on photos of ... - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: Photos released Wednesday by the Los Angeles Times– showing smiling US troops in Afghanistan posing with the remains of suicide bombers – are reigniting a debate about the ethics of publishing such ...
news.yahoo.com/did-los-angeles-times-call-photos-dead-afgha...
US Apologizes for 'Repugnant' Photos of Soldiers With ... - ABC News
The Los Angeles Times reported that a soldier from within the unit provided the photos on condition of anonymity. He told the newspaper that, in the second case ...
abcnews.go.com/Blotter/us-apologizes-repugnant.../story?...
Disappointing News From El Norte | Ted Rall's Rallblog
Los Angeles Times Cartoon: Disappointing News From El Norte. April 11th, 2012. I draw cartoons for The Los Angeles Times about issues related to California ...
www.rall.com/.../los-angeles-times-cartoon-disappointing-new...
Afghanistan: Los Angeles Times releases photos of troops posing ...
The Los Angeles Times today released photos showing American troops posing with the mangled corpses of Afghan suicide bombers, leading the Pentagon to ...
www.globalpost.com/.../afghanistan-los-angeles-times-releases...
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