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LA Cracks Down on Unsafe Skateboarding

Crouching 'bombers' to be fined $250

(Newser) - Los Angeles is clamping down on unsafe skateboarding by coming up with clearer definitions of what counts as dangerous. Under new City Council regulations, high-speed downhill runs known as "bombing" will still be allowed, but skaters will be required to be upright instead of crouching, reports the Los Angeles ...

Man Busted With $250K of Meth in Fake Snickers: Feds

He's nabbed at LA airport heading to Japan

(Newser) - A California man was nabbed aiming to smuggle $250,000 worth of methamphetamine into Japan in packages that looked like Snickers bars, say authorities. Rogelio Mauricio Harris, 41, of Long Beach, was busted as he was about to board a plane in Los Angeles. Federal agents discovered what looked like...

Coming to Cities: Mini Target, Petite Walmart

Major retailers open up tiny, urban-friendly outlets

(Newser) - Major chains are starting to think outside the big-box, at least where cities are involved. Stores like Walmart, Target, and Office Depot are willing to do what it takes to follow young adults who grew up in the 'burbs to their new urban homes, even if that means shrinking...

LA City Council Votes to Ban Marijuana Shops

Dispensaries will be ordered to shut down immediately

(Newser) - Los Angeles pot shops are about to go up in a puff of smoke. The LA City Council has voted unanimously to ban all marijuana dispensaries. The ban will go into effect 30 days after Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa signs the law, which he intends to do. As many as 900...

Suspect Detained in LA Homeless Stabbings

No charges filed yet after 3 assaults

(Newser) - Los Angeles police have detained a "person of interest" in the attacks on three homeless men , who were stabbed in the back while they slept, reports the LA Times . Courtney Anthony Robinson is the real name of "David Ben Keyes," the name signed to the "death...

Homeless Being Stabbed in Back as They Sleep in LA

'Death warrants' left beside 3 victims

(Newser) - A would-be killer is stalking homeless people in Los Angeles, police warn. Three middle-aged homeless people, two men and a woman, have been stabbed in the back so far this month by an attacker who left rambling "death warrants" behind, reports the Los Angeles Times . All three victims survived....

LAPD, Occupy Clash Over ... Sidewalk Chalk?

ArtWalk turns ugly as officers injured, many arrested

(Newser) - Riot police broke up an ArtWalk-turned-Occupy LA protest last night, using batons and non-lethal projectiles to disperse the crowd and arresting several, the LA Times reports. What were protesters doing? Drawing with sidewalk chalk. A Facebook event urged protesters to join LA's monthly ArtWalk and show support for people...

Inside the Gnarly Task of Cleaning Up LA's Skid Row

Razor blades, drugs, dead rodents collected during city's sweep

(Newser) - It wasn't a task for the faint of heart: After nearly two weeks spent cleaning up LA's Skid Row, city officials walked away with five tons of trash. And what they found over a six-mile span is enough to make one's stomach turn—among hundreds of needles,...

LA Lawmaker Wants Bieber Arrested

Pop sensation was pulled over on the freeway 'driving like maniac'

(Newser) - Should Justin Bieber's next concert be held behind bars? One Los Angeles City Councilman thinks so. Bieber was caught speeding on the freeway in his chrome Fisker Karma at 11:30am today, and witness to the scene was councilman/former LAPD motor officer Dennis Zine, who told TMZ , "Bieber...

Alex Trebek Suffers Heart Attack

But hospitalized host is upbeat, aims to be at next month's Jeopardy taping

(Newser) - Jeopardy king Alex Trebek has suffered a mild heart attack. The 71-year-old host of the long-running game show was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles over the weekend. Doctors expect him to make a full recovery, and he plans to be back on the Jeopardy set next month...

Pot Seized From Rodney King Home

Autopsy complete, but toxicology results may not be known for weeks

(Newser) - Police investigating the death of Rodney King have confiscated marijuana plants and gardening tools from his home. King's body was pulled from the deep end of his pool Sunday morning and a police spokesman says that "even though we're investigating this as an accidental drowning, we're...

Friends Doubt Rodney King Death Story

They suspect fiancée Cynthia Kelley is hiding something

(Newser) - Two of Rodney King's close friends think his fiancée, Cynthia Kelley, is lying about what happened in the hours before his death . Kelley says King, who had reportedly been drinking and smoking weed , banged on the window of their house around 5am yesterday and then she heard a...

Rodney King Dead at 47
 Rodney King 
 Dead at 47 
Jun 17, 2012 10:24 AM CDT

Rodney King Dead at 47

Was found in pool by fiancee in possible drowning

(Newser) - Rodney King, the motorist whose videotaped beating at the hands of white police officers spawned riots that engulfed Los Angeles in 1992, has been found dead at the age of 47. Sources tell TMZ that King's fiancee found him dead at the bottom of the pool early today; responders...

Cops Eye Magnotta in Hollywood Decapitation

He may have been in California when victim was dismembered

(Newser) - Was Luka Magnotta a serial killer who only filmed his latest murder? Police are probing a possible link between the Canadian murder suspect to an unsolved slaying in his hometown of Montreal—and further afield, including in Hollywood, where a headless body was found near the famous sign earlier this...

LA Coliseum Doubled as ... Porn Set?

'LAT' reveals risque scene was shot there in 2001

(Newser) - People who have famously appeared at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum: 1932 and 1984 Olympic athletes, JFK, countless USC Trojans football players, and the cast of Gangbang Girl #32. Turns out a group-sex scene that clocks in at a full 40 minutes was filmed there in 2001, right in the...

Search for Terminator's Nick Stahl Turns to Skid Row

He's been on drug binges before, says wife

(Newser) - The hunt for still-missing Terminator 3 star Nick Stahl has turned to Skid Row in Los Angeles, police report. The 32-year-old actor has disappeared on drug benders before, and ended up in some of the city's most dangerous neighborhoods, his wife tells the Daily Beast . “She admitted that...

&#39;Police Gang&#39; Probed in LA
 'Police Gang' Probed in LA 
May 17, 2012 2:49 AM CDT

'Police Gang' Probed in LA

Seven suspected members of 'Jump Up Boys' placed on leave

(Newser) - Seven deputies suspected of belonging to a "police gang" that supports street crime crackdowns backed by shootings have been suspended from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, according to officials. The so-called "Jump Up Boys" apparently operated like a squad within a squad, with members believed to...

$100M Pot Farm Destroyed in LA Park Raid

34,000 plants growing in Topanga State Park

(Newser) - A $100 million marijuana plantation was destroyed by a police raid in Topanga State Park in Los Angeles on Friday. The 34,000-plant operation deep in the park's back country is the largest busted by cops in the Santa Monica Mountains in seven years, reports the Los Angeles Times ...

LA Wants Speed Limit ... for Skateboarders

New rules could let police impound boards

(Newser) - Skateboarders in Los Angeles may soon have to obey traffic regulations—including a 25mph speed limit. The city council voted unanimously to draft rules against "unsafe" skateboarding, the Los Angeles Times reports. Councilman Joe Buscaino, who launched the proceedings, said he wanted to stop skateboard "bombing," during...

LAPD: Long-Sought 'Teardrop Rapist' Is Back

Police advise women to walk in pairs

(Newser) - Los Angeles police had to issue an awful warning to women in the city today: Don't walk alone. A sexual predator known as the "teardrop rapist" appears to have surfaced again after a years-long absence, reports the Los Angeles Times . The assailant, thought to have at least one...

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