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Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced that Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Joel Nebel was charged today with unlawfully firing his handgun at his home last year. “Officers are entrusted with the safety of our community. When they act recklessly, endangering the lives of the public, we…

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The funds will be used to add additional brick-and-mortar locations, recruit new healthcare providers and expand its technology platform. By Jessica Hagen Virtual and in-office healthcare provider Juno Medical raised $12 million in Series A funding round co-led by tennis star Serena Williams, managing partner at Serena Ventures, and Julian Eison,…

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By Los Angeles City Councilman Gilbert Cedillo (Ret.) Most people find the subject of redrawing political boundaries based on census data as boring as watching paint dry. In Los Angeles, though, a year-old, illegally-recorded conversation about the subject touched off a political firestorm. On the tape, City Council President Nury…

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By Joshua Goodman and Terry Spencer WASHINGTON — A former Miami congressman who signed a $50-million consulting contract with Venezuela’s socialist government was arrested Monday on suspicion of money laundering and representing a foreign government without registering. David Rivera, a Republican who has been marred by scandals dating back to his days…

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LOS ANGELES – A rapper who boasted in a YouTube music video about getting rich quickly by scamming a COVID relief program was sentenced today to 77 months in federal prison. Fontrell Antonio Baines, 33, a.k.a. “Nuke Bizzle,” of Memphis, Tennessee, was sentenced by United States District Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald,…

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By: ANDY MONSERUD A Detroit man employed by the FBI as an underaged drug informant in the mid-1980s filed suit against the federal government Friday, claiming state and federal law enforcement abandoned him to be attacked and arrested at 17, talked him into informing again throughout the 1990s, and went back on…

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By: Kerry Nenn According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, roughly 10-20% of college students have an alcohol use disorder. Nearly 55% of full-time college students between the ages of 18 and 22 drank alcohol in the past month. More than 33% of college students of the…

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