Punishment

Report faults professor, UCLA in death of lab assistant

2012-01-21 00:00:00

Ever since Sheri Sangji was fatally burned in a December 2008 lab fire, UCLA officials have cast it as a tragic accident, saying the 23-year-old staff research assistant was a seasoned chemist who was trained in the experiment that went awry. But...

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...

Two white men get life terms in '93 Britain killing of black teen

2012-01-04 16:32:00

California Supreme Court voids death penalty in 1998 killing

2012-01-10 00:00:00

Father who threw son off boat in Newport Harbor sentenced to rehab

2012-01-09 23:37:00

Xavier Su'a-Filo returns to find new UCLA football landscape

2012-01-09 18:25:00

Iran sentences American accused of spying to death, reports say

2012-01-09 18:55:00

Child sexual abuse cases in Hollywood attract attention

2012-01-08 19:37:00

Former Beverly Hills schools chief unlikely to lose pension

2012-01-08 00:00:00

7 Occupy L.A. cases dismissed because of paperwork errors

2012-01-08 00:00:00

On his stroll toward Mexico's presidency, Pena Nieto stumbles

2012-01-08 00:00:00

Martell Miller, the last of Niles teens to be sentenced for his role in a sex video extortion case, makes a statement apologizing to the court and the victim during his sentencing at Berrien County Trial Court in Niles Monday, January 30, 2012. Miller denied the sexual assault charge.

2013-04-11 08:53:00

The first day Davie Police Officer Vally Getejanc didn't show up for trial, a jury acquitted him of charges he assaulted his pregnant wife. The second day he didn't show up - he had already fled to Italy - Getejanc effectively scuttled plans for a separate trial already scheduled by the court.

2012-03-27 00:00:00

Leighton Martin Curtis was sentenced to 30 years in prison for prostituting a teenage girl.

2012-02-09 16:40:44