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College student was 'joker' artist
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 3 months ago
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A Chicago college student has been identified as the artist who developed a portrait of President Barack Obama as the Joker from the movie "The Dark Knight." Firas Alkhateeb, a 20-year-old history major at the University of Illinois, says it took him...
Creator of ‘Socialist Joker’ Obama poster unmasked
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility Earlier this month, we covered the story of the “Socialist Joker” Obama poster , which was spotted around Los Angeles and as far afield as Chicago...Now, thanks to some gumshoeing by the folks over at the Los Angeles Times, the creator of the portrait...
Tags: Firas Alkhateeb, NBC Chicago, Los Angeles Times, University of Chicago
LA mom who beheaded son had been investigated
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility A Los Angeles woman who decapitated her 4-year-old with a kitchen knife showed signs of mental illness nine months before the attack, yet Los Angeles County child welfare officials decided she wasn't a serious threat to the boy. Lars Sanchez was found...
Tags: Los Angeles County, child welfare, Lars Sanchez, Los Angeles Times, Yolanda Tijerina, mental illness
Ex-priest to testify in abuse inquiry
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility A former priest who admitted to child abuse will testify before a grand jury investigating the Los Angeles archdiocese, a courthouse source said Friday. Prosecutors are scrutinizing how the Los Angeles archdiocese and Cardinal Roger Mahony dealt with...
Tags: Los Angeles Times, grand jury, Michael Stephen Baker, Michael Baker
Police standoff ends at LA federal building
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility A man suspected of making threats against the White House was pulled from his car Thursday after an hours-long standoff in the parking lot of the Federal Building in West Los Angeles. The man had refused to leave his red Volkswagen Beetle and withstood...
Tags: Westwood, federal building, Westchester, Los Angeles Times
Pee-Wee returning ... to new stage show
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility I have some fear that he won't be funny after all this time...After a hiatus of close to 20 years, Reubens announced Monday that he would be playing Pee-wee in a new stage show at the Music Box @ Fonda in Hollywood. The production, titled "The Pee-wee...
Tags: Music Box, Los Angeles Times
The Hard Summer shutdown
Inglewood :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility Before any of the headline acts took the stage, the sold-out Hard Summer dance/electronic event was shut down at the Forum. As Pop & Hiss reported earlier, the event was declared a "hazard" by the Los Angeles County Fire Department, according to an Inglewood...
Tags: Los Angeles Times
Hundreds injured in California prison riot
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility The riot broke out between black and hispanic inmates at the Chino prison outside Los Angeles late Saturday and took more than 10 hours to bring under control, the Los Angeles Times reported. The facility remained in lockdown Sunday, prison spokesman...
Tags: Southern California, prisoners rioted, california prisoners, miles east, Chino, Santa Maria, La Brea Fire, Los Angeles Times, california institution, inmates injured
Police chief Bratton shocks LA with resignation
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility Police Chief William Bratton stunned the city Wednesday, saying he will step down after a seven-year tenure when crime rates plummeted to 1950s levels and once-contentious relations between officers and diverse communities improved. Only a month ago,...
Tags: William Bratton, policing chiefs, Los Angeles Police, South Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, chiefs william, LAPD, chiefs bratton, angeles policing, bratton stepping
Dodgers slugger Ramirez shrugs off slump talk
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility It's coming fast, but he refuses to let it weigh on his mind. Ramirez entered Tuesday's game batting just .167 (7 for 42) over his past 10 games and does not have an RBI since his dramatic pinch-hit grand slam July22, but he won't sweat it. The Dodgers...
Tags: Los Angeles Dodgers, Milwaukee Brewers, Manny Ramirez, Los Angeles Times, dodger stadium, Russell Martin, Manny's HR
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