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CHP officers arrested a Lancaster corrections officer on suspicion of DUI after his blood-alcohol level was allegedly 3 times the legal limit.

Signal Staff Writers Prosecutors with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office are reviewing the case for a midday shooting in a gated Sand Canyon neighborhood involving a retired Sheriff’s Department official and a man suspected of crashing his way into the upscale east side enclave. The case has been presented to the D.A. regarding the Jan. 11 incident and, in the case presented, charges were recommended for the person shot and not the shooter, according to Lt. Charles Calderaro with the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Bureau. Witnesses of the shooting and previous ...

Some said their deaths marked the end of an era. Others said it was the beginning of a new one.  “With each passing, the torch is being passed,'’ Dorie Ladner, 78, who helped register Blacks to vote in her native Mississippi, told me recently. “We’re mindful of the fact that there is so much work to do for the next generations to come.” Thousands of “foot soldiers’’ challenged segregation in the Deep South and across the country during the turbulent 1950s and 1960s. Over the years, I've interviewed countless veterans, including some who worked with the Student Nonviolent Co...

Circumstantial evidence but no real proof is leading people to accuse somebody of something horrendous “Those issues fascinate me. What is it about Seattle in the 1970s that led to a Ted Bundy? What is it about West Memphis and Arkansas in that particular time that allowed three teenagers to be accused of Satanic ritual murders? What is it about South Boston, for example, that produced a very particular kind of Irish gangster in Whitey Bolger in the Winter Hill gang?” Over the course of Crime Scene, an internet community forms around Elisa Lam’s Tumblr posts and her final di...

First Nations People Rock! Sadly there are no Pow Wows in the UK where I live, but many years ago I was privileged to attend a Pow Wow in Northampton which is twelve, (12), Miles from where live. I had a fantastic time. The visiting tribe had flown in from Germany. They held a Pow Wow for First Nations People serving, (military personnel), in Germany & decided to stop over in Northampton UK. Love & Peace to you all. André