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Aug 2009

After a recent upsurge in anti-Semitic violence, including the shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in June and a failed bomb plot targeting New York synagogues in May, Los Angeles city officials and community leaders are on...

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Aug 2009

Injunction Creates Gang-Free Zone Around Los Angeles School

Fighting to protect students facing "wanton gang violence," Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. and Los Angeles City Attorney Carmen Trutanich have won a court-ordered preliminary injunction creating a 1.4 square-mile gang-free zone...

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Aug 2009

Orange County supervisors revive challenge to deputy pensions

Orange County will attempt to revive its landmark lawsuit seeking to rescind generous retirement benefits granted to deputy sheriffs in 2001, supervisors decided Tuesday. The board voted 4 to 1 to appeal a superior court decision against...

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Aug 2009

Savannah Police Chief Michael Berkow Resigns

After less than three years on the job, Savannah Chatham Metro Police Chief Michael Berkow submitted his resignation on Friday. Berkow says leaving is difficult, but he has missed three years of his son's life, and a new opportunity will...