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FBI fatally shoots man being questioned in Boston bombings

Joe Mozingo

People who knew Colorado shooting suspect are baffled

Joe Mozingo, Matt Stevens Los Angeles Times

Last updated Saturday, July 21, 2012 - 7:11am

The suspect in the Colorado shooting Friday was described as a shy but polite, highly intelligent young man with a gift for science. He grew up in an affluent suburb of San Diego, played soccer and ran cross-country in high school, and graduated with honors at the University of California, Riverside with a degree in neuroscience.

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Loren Brazel waits for a customer to choose which strain of medical marijuana they want at the Avalon Wellness Center in Long Beach, California, on March 28, 2012. The store says it is struggling to make payroll. Investigators say that some marijuana dispensaries claim to be non-profit but are making huge amounts of money. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Some ’nonprofit’ pot shops making big money

Joe Mozingo Los Angeles Times

Last updated Wednesday, June 20, 2012 - 9:59am

LOS ANGELES - In the first raid, Orange County sheriff’s detectives hit a Dana Point marijuana storefront, the San Clemente home of its director and a "stash house" he allegedly maintained nearby.

In the two homes, they found cash stuffed everywhere: in buckets in the garage and attic, in an Igloo cooler in a bedroom, under a mattress, on an ironing board, in a dresser. According to a search warrant affidavit filed in November, they recovered more than $700,000.

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Diane Drinkwine (foreground) holds a baby picture of her biological daughter, Sally Blue, (background) who appears on Skype, January 26, 2011. Diane and her daughter Connie Files, along with another son Steve Inman, were re-united earlier this month (January) when Sally's daughter spotted a Facebook page posted by Steve seeking his sister who had been missing for 37 years. Sally was taken from her mother by a nanny in South Korea when she was 16 months old.

For one family, Facebook became the long-lost-sister network

Joe Mozingo, Los Angeles Times

Last updated Monday, January 31, 2011 - 2:07pm

LOS ANGELES -- One night in August, after his wife and 2-month-old boy had long fallen to sleep, Steve Inman got to thinking about family and heredity. With a rare moment to himself, he pulled a box of photo albums out of the hall closet at his home in Fontana, Calif.

He found an old picture of himself as a boy and laughed at how he and his son had the same round ears and the funny top lip that flipped up like the bow of a ship. He perused faded images of his mother as a young woman in South Korea, and then came across his oldest sister, sitting in a meadow before he was born.

She was about 8 months old then and had the same cast to her face as his boy, the same squint.

Seeing her in his own first child, he felt an overwhelming rush of sadness, a sense he had let her down. She had been missing for 37 years now. Although he had never even met her, it hit him how much a part of him she was.

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