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Top Story: Rescue on the rocks of Catalina

Rescue on the rocks of Catalina

As they walked up the hill overlooking the ocean, the Topanga couple only wanted to test the ham radios they’d been trained to use in a disaster. Instead, Karl Tso and Deborah Ava ran into a real-life emergency on Catalina. Their quick work one night late last month helped save the life of a man who was half-conscious... [Read more]

Community Law Enforcement
Innovative probation/police teams cut valley gang crime

Innovative probation/police teams cut valley gang crime

The LAPD and the county’s Probation Department joined forces for the first time more than two years ago to battle the San Fernando Valley’s rising tide of gang violence. The idea: to embed a deputy probation officer in LAPD gang details in six Valley stations to provide a missing dimension to gang enforcement. The result, according to police and probation... [Read more]

Justice and the Courts
Jail phone calls ring up big bills

Jail phone calls ring up big bills

Responding to complaints about the high cost of telephone service in Los Angeles County jails, the Board of Supervisors has moved to open up bidding on the multi-million dollar jail phone contract in an effort to lower the cost of calls while still providing key funding for jail programs. The jail phone contract with the Sheriff’s Department governs the rates... [Read more]


• Van Nuys courthouse opens child-friendly waiting room
Disaster Readiness and Relief
Malibu octogenarians get their goats—and safer homes

Malibu octogenarians get their goats—and safer homes

Just what was that herd of goats doing munching grass on the steep hillsides of Malibu’s Horizon Hills earlier this year? They were hired hooves. Hoofing it to work in Horizon Hills (photo: Wolfgang Knauer)Venturing easily to slopes too vertical for weed-whacking men to climb, the sure-footed grass-eaters were hired as part of a fire grant program engineered... [Read more]