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Cord Jefferson · 06/24/13 04:00PM
The L.A. coroner's office has ruled the death of a woman found in a hotel cistern as an accidental drowning with "other significant conditions, being bipolar disorder." The Toronto Sun reports authorities didn't explain how Elisa Lam got into the tank, from which guests drew water for days before she was found.
Gruesome Video Appears to Be Aftermath of Michael Hastings' Car Crash
Cord Jefferson · 06/19/13 05:10PMLos Angeles Boys Have Eating Disorders Thanks to Channing Tatum
Hamilton Nolan · 06/14/13 08:56AMPlane Crashes Into Hangar at Chino Airport
Max Rivlin-Nadler · 06/13/13 09:23PMSeven Killed, Including Suspected Gunman, in Santa Monica Shooting
Max Read · 06/07/13 02:27PMIn Shocker, Technocratic Centrist-Democrat Elected Mayor of Large City
Max Rivlin-Nadler · 05/22/13 09:21AMWomen Accidentally Shot by LAPD Won't Get New Truck, Despite Promises
Cord Jefferson · 03/12/13 11:44AMThousands Possibly Exposed in a Tuberculosis Outbreak Among LA's Homeless
Cord Jefferson · 02/22/13 02:45PMThe largest California outbreak of tuberculosis in a decade is happening in Los Angeles right now, and the Centers for Disease Control has finally dispatched a team of scientists to help LA-area authorities try to control it. The locus of the outbreak, which involves a strain of TB unique to LA, is the city's notorious Skid Row, the small constellation of streets in downtown where Southern California's most downtrodden citizens—homeless people, prostitutes, heroin addicts, combinations of all three—congregate in such close quarters that a disease outbreak was probably inevitable. Since 2007, 11 people have died of TB in LA County, according to the LA Times. In the latest outbreak, 60 of the 78 cases reported to authorities were homeless people living on or near Skid Row.
Guests at L.A. Hotel Spent Weeks Drinking Water Contaminated by a Dead Body
Taylor Berman · 02/20/13 11:45PMWhen a maintenance worker at L.A.'s Cecil Hotel opened the hotel's rooftop water tank to investigate low water pressure, he found something unexpected: a dead body. Investigators believe the remains of Elisa Lam had been inside the tank since January 31, when the 21-year-old was last seen. As police work to determine if her death was the result of foul play or "a very, very strange accident," the LA County Department of Public Health is investigating a more urgent matter: the potentially contaminated water, which hotel residents had, for several weeks, used to bathe in and brush their teeth.
Terrifying Video of 'Killer Cop' Gun Battle Caught by Reporter
Max Read · 02/13/13 10:52AMChristopher Dorner Believed Dead; LAPD Denies Reports That His Body Was Recovered in Burning Cabin
Cord Jefferson · 02/12/13 04:09PMLAPD Suspect Christopher Dorner May Have Had Help in Trying to Escape to Mexico
Cord Jefferson · 02/12/13 02:20PMAs LA's killer cop manhunt drags into its sixth day, police are learning ever more about Christopher Dorner, the man suspected of killing three people and wounding two others on a revenge mission against the LAPD. Dorner apparently purchased scuba gear two days before allegedly killing his first two victims, and police now believe him to be using burner cellphones to maintain contact with friends and allies. What's more, one of those allies tried to help Dorner flee to Mexico, according to new criminal charges filed in US District Court late last week.
Angelenos Now Using Signs to Ask LAPD to Not Shoot Them Amid Manhunt
Cord Jefferson · 02/11/13 04:46PMFaced with a police force that has already fired on three innocent citizens in pursuit of suspected murderer Christopher Dorner, LA residents are taking it upon themselves to warn area cops that they are not, in fact, the so-called "killer cop" everyone is looking for. Rather, they're just bald black people or people driving pickup trucks.
Alleged Killer Cop Found and Returned Thousands of Dollars to a Church in 2002
Cord Jefferson · 02/09/13 02:11PM'A Man with Morals': The Alleged Killer Cop's Growing Online Fan Base
Cord Jefferson · 02/08/13 06:15PMIn the day and a half since ex-cop Christopher Dorner allegedly went on a vengeful killing spree that's left three dead so far, the search for the 33-year-old former Navy reservist has reached rabid heights. Cops eager to catch Dorner have already shot at a few innocent people thinking it was their man, and police units have fanned out to towns up and down California's southern coast in a manhunt that went through the night.
The Alleged Killer Cop Sent a Weird 'Exonerating' Package to Anderson Cooper Last Week
Cord Jefferson · 02/07/13 07:05PMChristopher Dorner, the alleged killer ex-cop currently being hunted—sometimes poorly—by the LAPD, reportedly mailed a package to CNN's Anderson Cooper that arrived last week, on February 1. Cooper's assistant opened the package and found inside two smaller parcels: One was a souvenir medallion sometimes given out by LA Police Chief William Bratton. The medallion had been damaged by bullet holes and a note attached to it read, "Thanks but no thanks, Will Bratton." The second parcel was a DVD ostensibly containing an interview with Christopher Gettler, the schizophrenic man Dorner claimed a fellow officer kicked unnecessarily during an arrest in 2007. Dorner was later fired after an LAPD board ruled his allegations were false and refused to give weight to the ill Gettler's testimony. But in the manifesto he posted to Facebook earlier this week, Dorner wrote, "During this [LAPD Board of Rights] hearing a video was played for the ... panel where Christopher Gettler stated that he was indeed kicked by Officer Evans." On the DVD, Dorner had written, "Chris Dorner Exoneration."
Here Is the Alleged Killer Cop's Whistleblowing-Complaint Appeal Document
Cord Jefferson · 02/07/13 04:41PMPart of ex-cop turned murder suspect Christopher Dorner's rambling manifesto, which touches on everything from his feelings about gay rights to his opinions about the actor Christoph Waltz, delves into the matter that seems to be at the heart of his breakdown. In 2007, Dorner, then a probationary employee with the LAPD, accused his training officer, Teresa Evans, of kicking a schizophrenic man with dementia unnecessarily during the course of the arrest. Dorner omitted the kicks from the arrest report immediately following the incident because he says he was "unsure what to write about the incident on the arrest report, so [Officer] Evans completed the report." But approximately two weeks later, he ended up telling an LAPD captain what he says he witnessed.
The Killer LAPD Cop's Facebook Manifesto Has A Little Something For Everyone
Max Read · 02/07/13 12:54PMChristopher Jordan Dorner, the 33-year-old ex-LAPD officer who allegedly killed a young Los Angeles couple on Sunday in revenge for his termination from the force, is only getting started, according to a rambling manifesto, alternately terrifying and bizarre, that he posted to Facebook earlier this week.
LAPD Shooting Innocents in Incompetent Manhunt for Killer Cop
Cord Jefferson · 02/07/13 11:38AMTwo women delivering newspapers in Torrance on Thursday morning were shot by Los Angeles police officers searching for Christopher Jordan Dorner, the ex-LAPD officer allegedly on a revenge killing spree over his 2009 firing from the force. A third person who filmed the shooting is also said to have been shot