Category: Crime

  • Founder of company that created LAUSD chatbot charted with fraud

    Founder of company that created LAUSD chatbot charted with fraud

    The head of an education technology startup that created a highly touted chatbot for the Los Angeles school system has been arrested and charged with fraud. Federal prosecutors, in an indictment unsealed Tuesday, accused Joanna Smith-Griffin of defrauding investors and charged her with securities fraud, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Smith-Griffin, 33, is the…

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  • Feds raise concern about maternal care for Black Cedars-Sinai patients

    Feds raise concern about maternal care for Black Cedars-Sinai patients

    Federal investigators looking into the treatment of Black pregnant patients at Cedars-Sinai Health System have found evidence that federal laws against discrimination may not have been followed, according to a “letter of concern.” “Our investigation has uncovered evidence that Cedars-Sinai may have engaged in a pattern of inaction and/or neglect concerning the health risks associated…

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  • Fresno has a homelessness problem. So why reject state-funded housing?

    Fresno has a homelessness problem. So why reject state-funded housing?

    FRESNO —  Dez Martinez greeted the homeless dwellers of Santa Clara Street on a recent October afternoon with open arms and a warm smile. As she walked through Fresno’s version of Skid Row, homeless residents waved in greeting from the tents and tarps lining both sides of the street. “I need help,” one man told her…

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  • They pretended to be from church to kidnap, rob the elderly in L.A.

    They pretended to be from church to kidnap, rob the elderly in L.A.

    For four months, two people terrorized older residents in South L.A., Boyle Heights and the MacArthur Park area, gaining their trust through friendly conversation in order to kidnap and rob their victims at gunpoint, authorities said. The Los Angeles Police Department recently arrested two suspects in connection with a serial “kidnap for robbery” scheme and…

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  • How L.A. Mayor Bass hopes to work with Trump on homelessness

    How L.A. Mayor Bass hopes to work with Trump on homelessness

    WASHINGTON —  President-elect Donald Trump has promised to arrest thousands of homeless people sleeping on American streets and move them to large tent cities on “inexpensive land,” one of several planks of his agenda that would upend a national strategy that focuses on finding people housing on a voluntary basis. “We will use every tool, lever…

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  • How the Mountain Fire hammered Ventura County farms

    How the Mountain Fire hammered Ventura County farms

    When the Mountain fire broke out more than two weeks ago, Samuel and Florentino witnessed the all-too familiar hazy, gray sky and the smell of smoke as they harvested strawberries in an Oxnard field. The men were more than 25 miles from the blaze but a combination of high winds and smoke was enough to…

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  • How California can still put an end to forced prison labor

    How California can still put an end to forced prison labor

    Proposition 6, the ballot measure that would have amended the California Constitution to prohibit involuntary servitude in prison, failed. That’s troubling. Do voters really believe forced prison labor is acceptable? The state Constitution (like its federal counterpart) has long outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude except “to punish crime.” Maybe voters thought prisoners should be made…

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  • Couple turns to bloodhounds, animal psychics to find lost dog

    Couple turns to bloodhounds, animal psychics to find lost dog

    A Southern California couple who lost their French bulldog have gone to great lengths over the last two months to find the pooch, resorting to bloodhounds, animal psychics, cash rewards and door-to-door canvasing. But the dog — Mushie — has yet to turn up and the determined couple are now having to endure scam calls…

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  • Sir Lady Java dead: Pioneering transgender performer was 82

    Sir Lady Java dead: Pioneering transgender performer was 82

    Sir Lady Java, a pioneering transgender performer and activist who boldly challenged discriminatory laws and police harassment as a star of the Los Angeles nightclub scene in the 1960s, died Saturday following a stroke, close friends confirmed Tuesday. She was 82. “It’s a big loss for the community,” said actor Hailie Sahar, who is preparing…

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  • L.A. City Council committee approves sweeping housing rezoning plan

    L.A. City Council committee approves sweeping housing rezoning plan

    A key Los Angeles City Council committee signed off on a sweeping rezoning plan Tuesday that would focus new market rate and affordable housing on commercial corridors and in existing dense residential neighborhoods. The effort is in response to state housing mandates that seek to alleviate the housing crisis by requiring the city find land…

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