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Airline passenger held in Los Angeles after smoke grenade and weapons seized
LOS ANGELES — A 28-year-old man on a plane from Japan was arrested in Los Angeles after he was found wearing body armor and flame-proof pants, and transporting a small arsenal of weapons, officials said Tuesday. Yongda Huang Harris, a naturalized US citizen of Chinese descent, faces a charge of…
Space shuttle Endeavour makes its final flight to retire in California
US space shuttle Endeavour took off Thursday morning for the second leg of its voyage into retirement in California, riding piggyback on a specially fitted Boeing 747. The shuttle left Houston early in the morning, after spending the previous day on display at Ellington Air Field. Endeavour left Cape Canaveral,…
Police protecting suspected anti-Islam filmmaker in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES — The man suspected of producing a crude film lampooning the Prophet Mohammed has been placed under police protection after protests erupted around the world, a force spokesman said Thursday. Journalists gathered outside the home of a 55-year-old Coptic Christian, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, in the city’s southern suburbs,…
California bank robbers litter streets with money during police pursuit
A hair-raising Los Angeles police chase ended Wednesday with a mob surrounding a group of alleged bank robbers who were seen throwing armloads of cash from their vehicle as they fled. It began around 10 a.m., when four men allegedly robbed a Bank of America in Santa Clarita, according to…
LAPD continues controversial anti-terrorism spying program with little oversight
The Los Angeles Police Commission recently approved weighty new revisions to the LAPD’s controversial Special Order 1 policy and the agency’s intelligence guidelines amid strong public opposition, enabling police officers to continue to gather, record and share intelligence and information based solely on observed behavior. The LAPD currently implements Special Order 1,…
Wildfire near Los Angeles destroys 4,000 acres
Around 700 firefighters are battling a wildfire near Los Angeles that forced the evacuation of hundreds of tourists camping over the holiday weekend, officials said. The fire at the Angeles National Forest has consumed 4,000 acres (1,600 hectares) and was just five percent contained, according to the interagency information management system InciWeb. The rest…
Calif. cop likely to face charges for bodyslamming handcuffed nurse
The Los Angeles police officer pictured in a video released this week showing law enforcement personnel bodyslamming a handcuffed nurse into the ground twice will likely face criminal charges once an internal investigation concludes, a former LAPD deputy commissioner said Thursday. Video surfaced of the assault endured by Michelle Jordan, 34,…
Ballot initiative looks to save Los Angeles pot shops
Drug reform activists in Los Angeles said they will file more than 50,000 petition signatures on Wednesday supporting a ballot initiative that would halt City Hall’s plan to shut down nearly all the medical marijuana dispensaries. The city requires just 27,400 signatures to leverage an initiative onto the ballot. If…
Topless activists run into trouble in New York and Los Angeles
In shedding their tops and taking up their cause, the women who took part in National Go Topless Day marches in New York and Los Angeles had to deal with some uninvited “admirers.” Photographer Katie Sokoler told New York City newsblog Gothamist that participants at the event in Bryant Park…
Witnesses aim to sell video footage of director Tony Scott leaping to death
Witnesses who filmed and photographed Tony Scott‘s fatal leap from a bridge into Los Angeles harbour are reportedly hawking the footage to media outlets. The material captures the British director crouching moments before he jumped an estimated 185ft to his death on Sunday. The show business website TMZ said it had seen – but not…
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