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Gun crime has plunged, but Americans think it's up, study says

2013-05-07 20:59:00

The number of violent crimes involving guns has plummeted in the last two decades, but more than half of Americans think the opposite is true, according to reports released Tuesday. Killings, assaults, robberies and other crimes involving guns have...

Letters: Safer with guns

2013-05-11 00:00:00

Re "Beliefs on gun crime way off," May 8 How can The Times manage to mention that "some researchers" attribute the significant reduction in gun crime in the United States to the reduced use of lead in gasoline (other causes mentioned were the decline in...

Former Dodger Pedro Guerrero has an unexpected new job -- manager

2013-05-10 13:19:00

Guess they were right: There’s just no telling. This news would rate just above “Kobe Bryant Gets Fat,” if still trailing “Lindsay Lohan Elected U.S. Senator” in the you’ve-gotta-be-kidding-me department: Pedro...

Gun crime has plunged, but Americans think it's up, says study

2013-05-07 12:46:00

Gun crime has plunged in the United States since its peak in the middle of the 1990s, including gun killings, assaults, robberies and other crimes, two new studies of government data show. Yet few Americans are aware of the dramatic drop, and more...

LAPD's 'magic number' of 10,000 officers losing some luster

2013-04-28 17:46:00

In 1989, then-Los Angeles Councilman Zev Yaroslavsky unveiled an audacious plan to boost the city police force by more than 25% to 10,000 officers. He couldn't have imagined that city leaders would chase that goal for nearly a quarter of a century...

A teen's quest for self-discovery in 'Maya's Notebook'

2013-04-27 08:00:00

Whatever happened to magic realism? The question arises when dipping into "Maya's Notebook," Isabel Allende's bruising, cinematically vivid new novel. It's an exercise in gritty realism rather than the fanciful folkloricism that Allende has been known...

Driver, 37 pounds of coke seized at U.S.-Mexico border

2013-02-21 20:02:30

Pusha T and Kanye West to rendezvous in Paris

2013-02-20 15:31:00

At the end of this month, Virgina trap rap supremo Pusha T will head off with Kanye West to the City of Light in an effort to create what the MC calls something “super, super dark.” Pusha’s well-received mixtape “Wrath of Caine&...

Woman accused of taking child porn photos is indicted

2013-02-05 15:42:33

Turbocharged cars' gas mileage may be lackluster after all

2013-02-05 05:00:00

While electric vehicles continue to grab the green-car spotlight, an older technology has quietly emerged as a player in the fuel economy wars: turbocharging. Once the province of performance cars, turbochargers now power economy cars, family sedans and...

Whitney Houston's brother Michael admits starting her on drugs

2013-01-29 11:39:00

For years, rumor had it that Bobby Brown had introduced Whitney Houston to drugs — but Michael Houston, one of the singer's two older brothers, has revealed to Oprah Winfrey that the real story was quite different. It's a story that has Michael...

18 arrested in federal crackdown on gang that operated near USC

2012-12-06 12:25:39

An April 29 arrest resulted in 121.2 grams of suspected cocaine; 56 green baggies containing suspected crack cocaine, 11.1 grams; 44 gel capsules of suspected heroin, 10.7 grams; digital scale with white residue containing suspected cocaine and $10,360 in U.S. currency.

2013-05-01 09:58:00

Allegedly found in a disoriented state inside a car with crack pipe and her 2-week-old baby.

2013-03-13 00:00:00

And just about all those relationships ended with Mayer looking like the bad guy, gaining him the skeazy rep of Hollywood's serial playboy.

2013-02-08 12:13:51