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John M. Glionna

Retired ’Cowboy Sheriff’ of Las Vegas still holds sway

Last updated Wednesday, July 25, 2012 - 9:23am

LAS VEGAS - The first thing you notice about Sheriff Ralph Lamb is that voice - the low, gravelly growl of a former five-pack-a-day Marlboro man. Even at age 85, Lamb still uses the plain-spoken utterances of an old-school lawman.

On his disdain of firearms: "Sometimes we had to use our guns, but sparingly. If a guy shot at me, I’d shoot back."

And on his public image: "The church-goin’ people in town, the good people, they liked my brand of law and order - keepin’ things cleaned up."

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Theater shooting suspect a mystery despite intriguing details

John M. Glionna, Matt Stevens, Michael Landsberg Los Angeles Times

Last updated Sunday, July 22, 2012 - 8:18am

AURORA, Colo. - The robot snaked methodically through the apartment, creeping past wires, bottles, fuses and volatile shells. One day after a mass shooting that claimed 12 lives, bomb technicians used the remote-control device to disarm and preserve dangerous evidence that might help explain - and convict - the enigma at the center of an explosion of violence.

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Blind man's suit alleges surgeon carved 'KKK' in stomach

John M. Glionna Los Angeles Times

Last updated Tuesday, July 17, 2012 - 5:21pm

It could be akin to those cases in which believers see the face of the Virgin Mary in a taco shell or a suburban tree trunk, but a American-Indian lawyer in South Dakota doesn’t think so: He filed a federal lawsuit this week on behalf of a man who says surgeons carved the initials KKK into his stomach during heart surgery.

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Mexican gray wolves suffer setbacks

John M. Glionna Los Angeles Times

Last updated Tuesday, July 17, 2012 - 10:42am

LAS VEGAS - As Tom Buckley tells it, the Mexican gray wolf recovery program in Arizona and New Mexico has suffered some rotten luck in recent years.

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The body of a male chimpanze lies on the ground after being shot by police in Las Vegas, Nev., Thursday, July 12, 2012. Las Vegas Metro Police shot two chimpanzees on the loose killing one and tranquilizing the other. Metro spokesman Officer Marcus Martin said the chimp that was killed was shot by an officer after it appeared the chimp was headed toward residents, including children, who had come outside to watch the chase. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus)

Chimps get loose in Las Vegas; 1 killed, other tranquilized

John M. Glionna Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, July 12, 2012 - 3:58pm

LAS VEGAS - Police here took a brief walk on the wild side Thursday, tracking down two escaped chimpanzees - shooting and killing one animal and tranquilizing the other, officials said.

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Sin City bakes in hellish heat

John M. Glionna The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, July 11, 2012 - 10:15am

LAS VEGAS - Clutching his car-wash advertising sign, Alecio Daniels pranced in the punishing heat on a suburban street corner here, feeling like a chicken roasting in the oven. He eyed passing cars, the feverish air shimmering in the near distance blurring his vision.

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John Brigham, booking photo from the Scottsdale Police Department. (November, 2011)

Naked carjacker leaves destruction in his wake

John M. Glionna Los Angeles Times

Last updated Friday, July 6, 2012 - 2:29pm

Justice is blind, and that’s good, or she might be embarrassed by the case of a Phoenix-area man who stripped naked during a recent madcap skein in which he caused crashes that injured seven people in suburban Scottsdale, closing several roads and causing witnesses to cover their eyes.

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Members of the Mongols Motorcycle Club ride into Boulder City, Nev. Friday, June 22, 2012. Members of several biker clubs have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in Nevada, alleging that they've been systematically harassed by Las Vegas and North Las Vegas police. The lawsuit filed Monday, June 25, 2012, in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas alleges that over the last two years, police pressured a Las Vegas hotel and several bars into dropping scheduled events with members of the Mongols and Vagos, improperly detained a member of the Stray Cats, defamed a Bandidos member who was fired from his job as a paramedic and falsely arrested another Bandidos member. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, John Locher)

Biker groups sue Las Vegas police

John M. Glionna Los Angeles Times

Last updated Wednesday, June 27, 2012 - 9:47am

LAS VEGAS - They have names such as the Mongols, Stray Cats, Vagos and Bandidos, and they’re fighting mad.

Several biker groups have sued Las Vegas and North Las Vegas police over civil rights violations in federal court, alleging systematic harassment by police.

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Nevada town braces for Mongols invasion

John M. Glionna Los Angeles Times

Last updated Friday, June 22, 2012 - 10:49am

BOULDER CITY, Nev. - Out among the desert scrub brush, this quiet Las Vegas suburb is already sweating the coming weekend invasion - not high-plains wanderers or tourists per se, but leather-clad, tattooed motorcycle riders. Hundreds of them.

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From left, Nate Sackett, 25, of Salt Lake City, Utah, friend Andy Kunz, 35, of Las Vegas, Nevada, brother Connor Sackett, 22, of Brooklyn, New York, and friend Dylan Jones, 22, of Salt Lake City, Utah, strike a pose while having their photograph taken by a friend in front of the sign welcoming visitors to Las Vegas, Nevada, on April 21, 2012. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Vegas sign a tourist attraction in its own right

John M. Glionna Los Angeles Times

Last updated Monday, May 21, 2012 - 10:43am

LAS VEGAS -- It sits along a stretch of median on the less-glamorous south end of this city's glitzy gambling Strip, a stubborn holdover from another era. Yet, as the days turn to night and back into day, it beckons as many tourists, human tumbleweeds and adventure-seekers as any newfangled casino.

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Governor Gary Herbert speaks during the ribbon cutting ceremony for the Falcon Hill ICBM Building at Hill Air Force Base on Monday, March 12, 2012. The ICBM Building is the first of many buildings to be built as part of the Falcon Hill project. (KERA WILLIAMS/ Standard-Examiner)

Utah ready to lead Western land war

John M. Glionna Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 5:04pm

Anticipating the bitter battle to come, governors from five Western states will meet in Salt Lake City on Friday to devise strategies to persuade Washington to give them more control over federal land within their own boundaries.

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Pyongyang citizens grieve as they visit a portrait of late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on display in the plaza of the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011. (AP Photo)

South Korea questions story of Kim Jong Il's death

John M. Glionna Los Angeles Times

Last updated Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - 11:02am

SEOUL -- In life -- and now even in death -- Kim Jong Il's whereabouts have always been a guessing game.

Is he here, or over there? No! Wait, there he is! Poof!

Inside his Hermit Kingdom, press pictures released of Kim were always undated. Live-television images of the "Dear Leader" were pretty much verboten.

Now, South Korean intelligence officials are even casting doubt on Pyongyang's official story line that the 69-year-old Kim died of a heart attack while working aboard a moving train Saturday morning.

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Matt Douma/Los Angeles Times/MCT
A lonely watchdog protects a deserted stable in a farming region outside Seoul that has been hit by animal foot and mouth disease. The government has responded to the outbreak by burying many animals alive, enraging activists.

South Korean livestock culling takes emotional toll on farmers

John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, February 3, 2011 - 3:18pm

CHANGMANRI, South Korea -- In this farming town an hour outside Seoul, the stalls sit eerily empty of animals, helter-skelter hoof marks in the mud the only reminder of once-thriving operations.

The animals are all dead, swept away by a fast-moving outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease that has seen the government come up with a grisly solution to save money and time: burying many pigs and other livestock alive.

"Having to bury little baby pigs alive is ... there's no way to describe how I suffered inside," sobbed the wife of one farmer who said she was so ashamed she declined to give her name. "It still breaks my heart to think or talk about what happened here."

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