Organized Crime

1-800-GET-THIN is sued by former workers

2012-01-17 16:18:00

Workers at weight-loss surgery centers affiliated with the 1-800-GET-THIN ad campaign persuaded patients to have medically unnecessary surgeries and billed insurance companies for procedures that were never performed, a new lawsuit alleges. Two women who...

Suspicion in Mexico's Sinaloa cartel

2011-07-28 00:00:00

Last of four parts Reporting from Calexico, Calif., and Badiraguato, Mexico The towering iron gates opened onto a palm-lined driveway that led past the family church, a twisting water slide and two man-made lakes, one stocked with fish, the other with...

Flying high for the Sinaloa drug cartel

2011-07-27 10:44:00

John Charles Ward would take flight in the half-light before dawn, when he could race down the runway without headlights and ascend into the cloaking embrace of an overcast sky. This feature requires that JavaScript be enabled and the Flash plug-in be...

L.A. Noir: 'The Gangster Squad'

2012-01-15 00:00:00

In Warner Bros.' upcoming action drama "The Gangster Squad," based on a series of Los Angeles Times articles, Josh Brolin plays John O'Mara, a Los Angeles police officer in an elite unit devoted to cleaning up the city's criminal element, specifically...

Paramount theme park set to debut in Spain in 2015

2011-10-10 15:54:00

The $1.5 billion Paramount Park in Spain hopes to rival Disneyland Paris as a European tourist destination when the movie theme park debuts in spring 2015. > Photos: Paramount Park Murcia theme park in Spain Located on the Mediterranean coast about...

Stories that grabbed us in 2011: Rogues, thieves, porn and more

2011-12-30 16:37:03

Right Makes Might

2011-12-29 16:37:44

On Location: L.A. feature film production edges up in 2011 while TV dips

2012-01-03 16:33:47

Maximum-security prison is no place for a pot stash, woman finds

2012-01-03 16:37:39

Former drug kingpin pleads guilty to racketeering, conspiracy

2012-01-04 16:35:33

2 wounded on Venice Boardwalk in suspected gang shooting

2012-01-05 04:34:57

Suspect in parole agent shooting involved in 2002 SWAT standoff

2012-01-05 04:34:57

Mexican police said Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo was wanted in connection with numerous crimes, including murder, extortion, kidnapping and the sale and distribution of drugs.

2012-02-04 00:00:00

Beautiful snow at Smugglers Notch in Nothern Vermont

2012-01-31 17:50:08

Arthur Rachel leaves the lobby of the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago on Thursday. Rachel was found guilty of federal charges of conspiracy and racketeering for plotting to rob an armored car and break into the home of deceased member of the Chicago Outfit.

2012-01-26 00:00:00