Underworld Turns

College baseball player brutally beaten outside West Hollywood bar speaks out

Barney’s Beanery is not commenting on a lawsuit filed against the West Hollywood hotspot in connection with a brutal attack outside the establishment earlier this year. The Jan. 8 assault occurred along Santa Monica Boulevard around 1 a.m., according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The victim, identified only as Matt, is a 22-year-old division 1 college baseball player with dreams of going professional who […]
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Man kidnapped from Sikh temple found dead near California lake

The body of a 57-year-old man who was kidnapped from a Central Valley Sikh temple earlier this month was located approximately 100 miles north in Napa County, according to the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office. Atvar Singh, a resident of Tracy where he worked as the temple’s head cook for 23 years, was reported missing on Feb. 17, the sheriff’s officials said in a news release. The 57-year-old lived on the temple […]
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L.A. County inmate convicted of rape killed at state prison

The death of an incarcerated man at California State Prison, Sacramento is being investigated as a homicide, with both the victim and his cellmate originally received into state custody from Los Angeles County, corrections officials said. Staff members discovered incarcerated person John Cisneros, 49, unresponsive inside his cell at approximately 9:15 p.m. on Feb. 23, […]
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