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The district attorney’s office is conducting a criminal probe of the land deal.”It’s up to Supervisor Hansberger to address these concerns,” Uffer said. Bitsberger, assistant Treasury secretary for financial markets, said that after taking public comments, the department would decide whether to bring back the bond Aug. Gordon Parks, who became the first African American [...]

The owner told me that the Western-style toy gun I wanted looked too realistic.”Toy stores,” he said, “no longer sell toy guns that look like real guns. “There are very perverse economic incentives” in the system, says Mike Hardesty, president of the California Central Valley Flood Control Assn., which comprises 80 maintenance districts.What’s truly perverse [...]

“I don’t think the president will be affected by the congressional elections. “Events in a Dense Fog” has a man in a teal jumpsuit kneeling on the ground, holding out a small device in his left hand while indicating a short span of space with the fingers of his right.In another of the paintings, a [...]

The Los Angeles parks department charges much higher fees in some neighborhoods to join sports leagues and may have overcharged residents by millions of dollars over the years, a city audit released Thursday concluded.A 9-year-old signing up for the city baseball program pays $35 at Lafayette Park near downtown, $55 at the Normandie Recreation Center [...]

AS a kid in Whittier, Manny Jimenez was raised on a steady diet of Hollywood. The players were in the middle of a rally when a ball came out of the stands and bounced on the court to Sharapova’s right. Spirited services are fine and good, but how many people will give up everything to [...]