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New Arizona law bars public funds from Planned Parenthood

Last updated Sunday, May 6, 2012 - 7:39am

PHOENIX -- Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a bill barring any public money -- city, county or state -- from going to Planned Parenthood, a decision that she says closes loopholes for funding abortions.

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A police officer walks with a man who said he had a child inside of the home where five people were shot Wednesday, May 2, 2012 in Gilbert, Ariz. Police have identified one of the five people killed in a shooting in a Phoenix suburb as a former Marine with ties to new-Nazi and Minutemen groups. (AP Photo/Matt York)

White supremacist among 5 shot dead in Phoenix

Dalina Castellanos Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, May 3, 2012 - 11:51am

PHOENIX -- Five people were found shot to death, including a toddler, at a house in the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert on Wednesday afternoon.

Police initially described the incident as a murder-suicide but later backed away from that characterization. Gilbert Police Sgt. Bill Balafas told the Los Angeles Times that police had responded to reports of a domestic dispute and shots fired. When officers arrived, he said, they found four bodies and a mortally wounded young girl. The child died later at a local hospital, he said.

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Warren Jeffs follower gets 10 years in prison for bigamy

Dalina Castellanos Los Angeles Times

Last updated Friday, March 30, 2012 - 4:29pm

A West Texas polygamist who authorities said had multiple "celestial marriages" was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison.

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Rev. Paul Keener, Rev. Milton Glass and Rev. Anthony Ware lead participants during a march to the steps of the Federal Courthouse Wednesday, March, 28, 2012, in Texarkana, Ark. Demonstrators gathered to call for justice for slain teenager Trayvon Martin, who was wearing a hoodie and getting candy when he was shot and killed by a community watch volunteer last month in Florida. (AP Photo/The Texarkana Gazette, Evan Lewis)

'Stand your ground' law cited in another case

Dalina Castellanos Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 11:02am

When a burglar carrying a bag of stolen car stereos swung it at Greyston Garcia's head, Garcia swung back with his fist -- in which he clutched a kitchen knife.

Garcia recovered the bag, which held his own stereo, and went home thinking he'd seen the burglar run away uninjured.

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Two people, a suspected gunman and a victim, were found dead inside a burned home in the East Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on Thursday, February 16, 2012. (Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Hollywood shooting, fire leaves 2 dead, 3 injured

Dalina Castellanos, Richard Winton Los Angeles Times

Last updated Friday, February 17, 2012 - 11:00am

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- A shooting and fire Thursday afternoon at a house in East Hollywood left two people dead, including the suspected gunman, and three others seriously wounded.

Authorities said the incident was the result of domestic violence. The wounded, two women and a man, all in their 30s, were all shot in the upper torso. They were hospitalized in serious condition, but officials said all three are expected to survive. All were conscious and able to talk, police said.

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With portraits of school children behind him, Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent John Deasy takes his seat following a closed-door meeting of the Board of Education in downtown Los Angeles Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. Prosecutors have filed a lewd-acts complaint against the second of two teachers removed from a Los Angeles-area elementary school, and the Board voted to fire him in the closed-door meeting. On Monday night Deasy said that more than 120 staff members at Miramonte Elementary School — everyone from the principal and teachers to the cafeteria workers — were being replaced because a full investigation of the allegations will be disruptive and staffers will require support to get through the scandal. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Distrubing letters from teacher's aide to pupil being investigated

Dalina Castellanos, Howard Blume Los Angeles Times

Last updated Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 11:28am

LOS ANGELES -- In June 2009, the mother of a fourth-grader made a discovery that is now the latest incident under investigation at Miramonte Elementary School: a teacher's aide was allegedly writing love letters to her 11-year-old son.

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