Criminals

Stolen-artifacts case has cost much, yielded little, critics say

2013-05-18 22:09:00

When hundreds of federal agents raided four Southern California museums early one January morning in 2008, it set the art world ablaze, suggesting that even amid an international looting scandal, museums had continued to do business with the black...

Attorney angrily defends handling of O.J. Simpson case

2013-05-17 21:31:00

LAS VEGAS — Over a day of often-vitriolic cross examination, O.J. Simpson's former defense attorney faced a barrage of pointed challenges that his representation was so shoddy and even duplicitous that the fallen football star deserves a new trial...

Cannes 2013: Chile's onetime cult king still the wizard of weird

2013-05-16 12:39:00

CANNES, France — The Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky has made only seven features in his nearly half-century career, but his legendary midnight movie "El Topo," a wigged-out peyote western that played to New York audiences for months in 1970,...

Jodi Arias: Victim's sister tells court, 'Travis was the glue'

2013-05-16 14:35:00

PHOENIX — The jury deciding the fate of convicted murderer Jodi Arias heard dramatic and emotional testimony Thursday from family members of the man she killed as they described how their lives were ripped apart by his death. Siblings of Travis...

Enron's Jeff Skilling doesn't deserve a break

2013-05-17 19:20:00

As if you didn't know this already, we're coddling criminals in America. By that I don't mean the petty drug dealers, three-strikes necklace-snatchers and other mooks filling up our state prisons; many of them are doing hard time. I'm talking about...

Seven Montebello-area gang members arrested in cold case killings

2013-05-15 21:50:00

Seven reputed Montebello-area gang members have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in at least half a dozen killings stemming from ongoing rivalries over drugs and turf, authorities said Wednesday. The arrests made by Montebello police and...

Holder defends subpoena of journalists' phone records

2013-05-14 21:03:00

WASHINGTON — Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. on Tuesday strongly defended the criminal investigation into the leak of classified details about a successful U.S. undercover operation, calling it "within the top two or three most serious leaks" of...

Attorney general orders criminal review of IRS

2013-05-15 03:00:00

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department began a criminal investigation Tuesday into overzealous scrutiny by the IRS of applications for tax exemptions by conservative groups, an improper targeting that an inspector general's report blamed on a...

Alarmed by deaths, regulators urge states to lower drunk driving limit

2013-05-14 14:48:00

WASHINGTON -- With drunk driving still a stubborn national problem that accounts for one-third of all traffic deaths, federal safety regulators on Tuesday called on states to take a dramatic step: lower the legal limit for drivers’ blood-alcohol...

Talk back: Should states lower DUI threshold to 0.05%?

2013-05-14 15:50:00

Federal safety regulators proposed Tuesday that the legal limit for drivers’ blood-alcohol content be lowered from 0.08% to at least 0.05%. Drunk driving is a national problem that accounts for one-third of all traffic deaths, The Times Richard...

Atty. Gen. Holder orders criminal investigation into IRS screening

2013-05-14 13:34:00

WASHINGTON -- Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. said Tuesday that he had ordered a criminal investigation into allegations that top IRS officials targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny. “I have ordered an investigation to be begun,”...

Report blames IRS scandal on lax oversight, confused staff

2013-05-14 18:52:00

WASHINGTON -- The growing scandal at the IRS stemmed from a confused staff and lax oversight, according to an eagerly awaited inspector general’s report released Tuesday shortly after federal authorities began a criminal investigation into...

2011 U.S. Census estimated population: 706,585 Homicides from Jan. 1 through March 31, 2013: 71 Homicide rate per 100,000 residents: 10.05 Detroit recorded 386 criminal homicides in 2012, a 12 percent increase from 2011, according to the Detroit Police Department.

2013-04-17 00:00:00

Charge: Predatory criminal sexual assault, criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual abuse

2013-03-01 00:00:00

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Mike Tyson's guest appearance in NBC's long-running "Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit" stirred up controversy in February. Tyson played Reggie Rhodes, a convicted murderer who reveals that he was sexually abused and raped, and that the man he killed was one of the abusers.

2013-02-27 16:33:52