Occupy Wall Street

Taxpayers' bill for Occupy L.A. protest rises to $4.7 million

2012-05-12 00:00:00

A new report finds Occupy Los Angeles cost city taxpayers nearly $5 million, with the bulk of the money spent on policing the protest. The report presented Friday by City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana says the Los Angeles Police Department...

Twitter challenges court order in Occupy Wall Street case

2012-05-08 20:26:00

Tweeters, it looks like Twitter's got your back when it comes to the Constitution. In quite a few more than 140 characters, Twitter is saying no way to a court order to give up the account details and communications of one of its users being prosecuted...

Arizona law lets you keep on trolling

2012-05-09 00:00:00

Trolls, you can breathe easy. Your annoying and offensive comments won't get you arrested in Arizona quite yet. Arizona lawmakers have amended the amendment to the telephone-harassment section of the state's anti-stalking law so that it no longer says...

Pittsburgh cafe offers cuisine from the U.S. conflict du jour

2012-05-07 18:33:00

PITTSBURGH — Jon Rubin had an important question, and he knew where to find the answer: at the North Korean Embassy in Cuba, which he was visiting in March on a business trip. A man in jogging clothes and flip-flops came to the embassy gate after...

Facebook friend or high school principal? Students can't be sure

2012-05-09 09:43:00

KANSAS CITY, Mo. --�Attention, students: If someone you don't know tries to friend you on Facebook, ask yourself whether it might actually be your high school principal. Consider "Suzy Harriston." Her profile picture showed only penguins, and a bunch...

Bank of America CEO faces shareholder ire as protests swirl

2012-05-09 14:13:00

Four people were arrested Wednesday as they tried to force their way into the annual Bank of America Corp. shareholders' meeting in Charlotte, N.C. Police used a new ordinance to impose restrictions on the gathering. Hundreds of people gathered on the...

Protesters disrupt Wells Fargo shareholder meeting

2012-04-25 00:00:00

SAN FRANCISCO — Wells Fargo & Co. Chief Executive John Stumpf got to keep his pay, but little else went the banker's way during an acrimonious annual shareholder meeting. Demonstrators swarmed the Merchants Exchange Building in San Francisco's...

Letters: Memories of the 1992 L.A. riots

2012-04-29 00:00:00

Re "The past still grips," April 23 and "King discusseshis 'Riot Within' at Festival of Books," April 22 For 20 years I have dreaded this time of year, when the 1992 L.A. riots and Rodney King are brought to the forefront. I am sorry King was beaten by...

May Day: A complicated path from massacre to workers to loyalty

2012-05-01 13:10:00

Politics makes strange bedfellows and even stranger ironies. Take May Day, a holiday that was as much born in the U.S.A. as Bruce Springsteen but was spurned by Americans in the 20th century because the elites feared it was too radical. If you think...

Occupy Wall St. activists in N.Y. join May Day protest

2012-05-01 16:25:00

NEW YORK -- In the birthplace of last year's nationwide Occupy movement, the campaign that had seemed to drop from sight after being evicted from its New York City encampment surged back into the public eye Tuesday with a series of May Day protests, the...

Islanders move love and money to their own credit union

2012-05-04 00:00:00

VASHON ISLAND, Wash. — It would be hard to imagine a place further removed from the brash intensity of Occupy Wall Street. This secluded island of fir forests and rolling lavender fields — home to 23 organic farms, a tofu factory and a...

Oakland police alters crowd-control policy due to Occupy protests

2012-04-23 21:35:32

An Occupy Wall Street demonstrator reacts as he is arrested by New York Police Department officers during a march on Broadway in New York, May 1, 2012.

2012-05-04 12:30:00

Occupy Wall St. May 1, 2012

2012-05-01 19:11:00

Occupy Wall Street protester wears a money scarf and goggles as the movement joins with activists groups for May Day demonstrations May 1, 2012 in New York.

2012-05-01 00:00:00