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Sep 2009

Republican state lawmakers will appeal prison ruling

A group of Republican state lawmakers plan Thursday to appeal a federal court order that would force the state to reduce its prison population by 40,000 inmates, the legislators said at Capitol news conference. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger,...

01

Sep 2009

Councilman wants "duress system" at ATMs in wake of teen's murder

Los Angeles City Councilman Greig Smith today called for the installation of a PIN "duress code" system at bank ATM machines throughout the city, saying such a system might have saved the life of a teen murdered after a robbery attempt...

01

Sep 2009

Bill authored by Yee may give cops more money to fight human trafficking

A new law that should be ready for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's signature this week would allow state courts to seize human traffickers' assets and funnel the money raised by their sale to the local law enforcement agencies that work to...

01

Sep 2009

Kidnapping suspect's prison term raises questions

Some wonder why Phillip Garrido, accused of taking Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991, served only 11 years of a 50-year federal sentence for a similar 1976 crime. As details continued to emerge about Jaycee Lee Dugard's alleged kidnapper,...