Underworld Turns

Los Angeles man, 63, charged in 1996 cold case murder of Temple City woman

A 63-year-old Los Angeles man has been charged in a grisly 1996 cold case murder of a 23-year-old woman whose nude body was dumped in an L.A. County drainage ditch. Claudia Guevara was reported missing on Feb. 6, 1996, by her brother, who said she failed to return to their Temple City residence after work. Investigators, according to the Los Angeles County District […]
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Grossman’s attorney says murder conviction should be tossed over improper jury instructions

An attorney for Rebecca Grossman, who is serving prison time for fatally striking two young brothers in Westlake Village in 2020, argues her murder conviction should be overturned because of faulty jury instructions. Grossman’s lawyer, Lara Gressley, appeared before a three-judge appellate panel last week, contending that jurors who convicted Grossman were not given the […]
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Who Paid for the Super Bowl ICE Ad?

On Sunday during the Super Bowl, you may have encountered a particularly saccharine bit of propaganda: a pro-ICE ad describing agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement as “friends” and “neighbors”—local heroes, deporting “violent criminals” from the homeland. (Only 14 percent of those arrested by ICE, according to CBS News, have been charged with violent […]
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