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Oct 2012

Sacramento Bee Editorial: Outside bucks seek to swing two ballot props

Supporters of Proposition 32 claim that their campaign finance initiative "cuts the money tie between special interests and politicians." It's a lie. And an $11 million donation from a shadowy Arizona nonprofit illustrates why. Proposition...

23

Oct 2012

Gang member gets life in prison for killing L.A. sheriff's deputy

Deputy Juan Abel Escalante.(L.A. County Sheriff's Department) A gang member pleaded guilty to murder Tuesday in the fatal shooting of an L.A. County sheriff's deputy in 2008 and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility...

22

Oct 2012

Prison reform one year later

The brutal beating of Brandy Marie Arreola - allegedly by a man released from jail just days before the attack - has become a key example for critics of a law shifting responsibility for thousands of convicted felons from the state to the...

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Oct 2012

'Paranoid' bank exec told officer he used bath salts, police say

Brian Mulligan (Chelsea Lauren / Getty Images) After he was badly injured in May by two LAPD officers, top Deutsche Bank executive Brian C. Mulligan alleged that police manufactured a report that painted him as a snarling, thrashing...