AltWeeklies Wire
Dog Food Capernew
Journalists and the Los Angeles City Council cave to iffy lawsuit.
L.A. Weekly |
Christine Pelisek |
11-22-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
The Final Hours of Miguel Contreranew
The 911 call said he went in for a card reading, but the death of the labor leader prompted a prostitution raid. What really went down at the
botanica?
L.A. Weekly |
David Zahniser |
10-26-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
The Caged Lionnew

Environmentalist Rod Coronado returns to prison a decade after his radical heyday.
L.A. Weekly |
Susan Zakin |
08-10-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
The Sex Murder Filesnew

A serial killer may be stalking L.A.'s prostitutes.
L.A. Weekly |
Christine Pelisek |
06-08-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
The Prison Kingnew
"Z" gave his favorite white inmates drugs, weapons and the freedom to roam.
L.A. Weekly |
Christine Pelisek |
03-23-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Trumped-Up Terroristsnew
There are doubts about the feds' claim that a father and son recruited U.S. citizens for training at radical religious schools and raised money for "international jihadist groups."
L.A. Weekly |
John Ryan |
03-02-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: WAR
The Knockout Shotnew
How did former boxer Michael Hunter end up shot dead on a rooftop by LAPD undercover cops?
L.A. Weekly |
Christine Pelisek |
02-23-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
The Trials of Mandla Dubenew
During a mysterious psychotic episode, a South African filmmaker threatened to kill his children -- did our justice system protect his family over the next year or simply destroy it?
L.A. Weekly |
Kenneth Miller |
02-09-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Supermax Explodesnew
An inmate's wife and a sheriff come to terms with a riot.
L.A. Weekly |
Celeste Fremon |
02-09-2006 |
Crime & Justice
The Well-Connected Molesternew
David Newman liked his pals at MySpace.com as much as children of celebrities -- then he helped bring down a prosecutor.
L.A. Weekly |
Jeffrey Anderson |
02-03-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
How the Kobe Case Ended With a Quack, Not a Roarnew
After Kobe Bryant was accused of rape, I rushed headlong into a ravenous media feeding frenzy that would eventually shake my faith in my profession, as well as in myself. In the end, our glaring search for the truth yielded exactly the opposite.
L.A. Weekly |
Alex Markels |
09-13-2004 |
Crime & Justice