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Sep 2009

About face! Former pet shop owner makes the grade with LAPD

Since embarking on his new career path in March, Curt Logan has been called "the old man" or even "grandpa." Officer Curt Logan used to own a pet store in Granada Hills, but given the state of the economy, he decided to get into law...

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Sep 2009

Many say LAPD's new chief should come from within

As the city considers hiring a successor to departing Police Chief William Bratton, the consensus at a public meeting Thursday night was the ideal candidate would follow Bratton's examples and would come from within the department. The...

10

Sep 2009

Firefighters urge the L.A. mayor and city council to stop cost-cutting measures

A dozen firefighters descended on City Hall Thursday to deliver about 5,000 mailer responses from the public, asking the mayor and City Council to rescind a cost-cutting measure which takes 15 fire trucks and nine ambulances out of service...

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Sep 2009

Bratton: 'Blow Up Parker Center'

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES-More adventures with Downtown News photographer Gary Leonard. He says, "I took another tour of police plaza yesterday (after taking one with Councilmember Jan Perry last week) because it's one of our last public views...