Methamphetamine (drug)

Sheriff to fire narcotics deputy charged with lying about drugs

2013-06-19 11:27:00

The L.A. County Sheriff's Department is seeking to fire a narcotics deputy charged with lying about finding drugs after detaining a couple, whom the county will pay $550,000 to settle a false-arrest lawsuit, officials said. Francisco Enriquez has...

Wrong-way driver arrested in multiple-car crash on 14 Freeway

2013-06-18 09:27:00

The wrong-way driver who allegedly caused a nine-vehicle pileup on the 14 Freeway in the Antelope Valley has been arrested, the California Highway Patrol said Tuesday. Rick Allen Walker, 54, of Canyon Country, was suspected of being under the...

LAPD says it tried hard to protect woman killed in West Hills

2013-06-17 18:31:00

Los Angeles police officials said Monday they did what they could to protect a woman who investigators said was hunted down by her estranged husband at a friend's home and stabbed to death on a quiet West Hills street. Officers with the Topanga Area...

Slain woman had described harassment, threats by husband

2013-06-18 00:00:00

A woman who was stabbed to death trying to flee her estranged husband in a quiet suburban neighborhood gave chilling accounts of harassment, threats and her deepening fears, according to documents filed in her divorce case. Michelle Ann Kane, 43, in...

Slain woman 'did everything' to protect her children, family says

2013-06-17 15:33:00

The family of a woman authorities say was fatally stabbed by her husband in a quiet suburban neighborhood called her brazen killing a "shocking and horrific tragedy" Monday. In a statement issued through an attorney, Michelle Kane's family said they...

Man allegedly told slain wife restraining order 'won't protect you'

2013-06-17 14:23:00

A woman stabbed to death trying to flee her husband in a quiet suburban neighborhood gave chilling accounts of harassment, threats and her fears, according to documents filed in her divorce case. Michelle Ann Kane, 43,� in April was granted a partial...

Woman killed in West Hills talked to LAPD about estranged husband

2013-06-18 06:19:00

The day before Michelle Kane was slain, Los Angeles police officers took two reports from her regarding her estranged husband, officials said. In the first report, concerning a violation of a temporary restraining order, officers documented...

Family files claim in death of man beaten by officers

2013-06-15 21:50:00

The family of a man who died after being beaten by Kern County Sheriff's deputies and attacked by a police dog have filed a federal civil rights claim against the officers involved, the department and other agencies, a precursor to a lawsuit. The...

Deployment to war doesn't figure in majority of military suicides

2013-06-15 16:22:00

Nate Evans had three children depending on him and held down a good job running a hyperbaric chamber at a hospital. But what he really wanted was to go to war. In 2008, as the U.S. death toll in Iraq and Afghanistan approached 5,000, Evans became a...

Family of man who died after beating by deputies files claim

2013-06-15 16:15:00

The family of a man who died after being beaten by Kern County Sheriff’s deputies and attacked by a police dog have filed a federal civil rights claim against the officers involved, the department and other agencies, a precursor to a lawsuit....

Achim Freyer presents sort-of-new 'Ring' cycle in Germany

2013-06-12 10:27:00

German director Achim Freyer divided Los Angeles audiences three years ago when L.A. Opera began rolling out his avant-garde staging of Wagner's "The Ring of the Nibelung" at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. While many admired Freyer's challenging,...

In the hot land, Mexicans just say no to drug cartels

2013-06-11 03:00:00

COALCOMAN, Mexico — Rafael Garcia slaps the oversize wooden desk where he sits, one of the last mayors still in office in this region of Mexican farm country known as Tierra Caliente — hot land. Mayors from a couple of the nearest towns fled...

The maxim goes that comedy equals pain plus time, but tell that to ruffled standup Artie Lange, who, three years ago, attempted suicide by stabbing himself nine times with a kitchen knife.

2013-06-17 00:00:00

16 packages of methamphetamine worth more than $665,000 where concealed inside a sport utility vehicle's non-factory compartment. The vehicle was used in an attempt to smuggle the drugs at the Highway 86 Border Patrol checkpoint.

2013-06-11 00:30:00

Examples of meth labs were displayed at the Meyersdale meth awareness event Wednesday. At left, an example of a gas generator, which could be found at a dump site. At center is an example of meth "cooking." Whitish residue sinks to the bottom while lithium battery pieces float.

2013-05-29 20:17:00