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In this Feb. 8, 2013 photo, commuters on Santa Monica Boulevard on the Westside of Los Angeles see a digital billboard displaying a large "wanted" poster for former Los Angeles police Officer Christopher Dorner. Dorner is suspected in a spree of violence as part of a vendetta against law enforcement after being fired by the department. He is also a suspect in the shooting deaths of a former LAPD captain's daughter and her fiance, and two other shootings that left an officer dead and two others wounded. Dorner's alleged killing spree hasn't just terrorized a large section of the country _ it has captured people's imagination and attention. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Life imitates film in story of vengeful LA ex-cop

John Rogers, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) - It sounds like the plot line to a movie: He's a former LA cop on a violent, rage-filled rampage who will stop at nothing for revenge...
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Pictures provided by Los Angeles Police Department of alleged suspect Christopher Dorner are displayed during briefing on February 7, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. A former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Jordan Dorner, 33, who had allegedly warned he would target law enforcement, is suspected three police officers killing one. Dorner is also a suspect in two weekend killings of Monica Quan and Keith Lawrence who were found dead in a car inside a parking structure. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

Fugitive ex-LA cop charged with murder of officer

Gillian Flaccus and Tami Abdollah, Associated Press
RIVERSIDE, California (AP) - A fugitive ex-Los Angeles police officer with a $1 million reward on his head was charged Monday with murdering a police officer and special circumstances that could bring the death penalty...
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Former LAPD officer Christopher Jordan Dorner

$1M reward for ex-Los Angeles officer prompts tips

Gillian Flaccus and Tami Abdollah, Associated Press
IRVINE, California (AP) - A $1 million reward has prompted numerous tips to authorities seeking a fired Los Angeles police officer suspected of killing three people...
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Police stand guard near a bullet riddled Los Angeles Police Department squad car where a police officer was shot on Magnolia Ave. over the Interstate 15 Freeway on February 7, 2013 in Corona, California. Former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Jordan Dorner, 33, who had allegedly warned he would target law enforcement, is suspected of firing on two LAPD officers and ambushing two other officers, killing one. Dorner is also a suspect in two weekend killings of Monica Quan and Keith Lawrence who were found dead in a car inside a parking structure. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

LAPD stretched thin by fugitive ex-cop

Gillian Flaccus and Tami Abdollah, Associated Press
IRVINE, California (AP) — The manhunt for a fugitive ex-police officer wanted in the slayings of three people has stretched thin the ranks of the Los Angeles Police Department and put fear into southern California towns...
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This undated file photo provided by the Los Angeles Police Department shows suspect Christopher Dorner, a former Los Angeles police officer. A law enforcement official tells The Associated Press, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013, that a charred body inside the ruins of a mountain cabin that went up in flames is believed to be that of Dorner, suspected in four killings. Other agencies say a body has yet to be found. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Police Department, File)

Fired LAPD officer wanted in connection with double murder

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LOS ANGELES - Detectives are looking for a former LAPD officer, apparently disgruntled over his termination from the force, in connection with the double murder of a newly engaged couple last weekend, Irvine Police Chief David Maggard said Wednesday evening...
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A person stands next to a Church's Chicken restaurant on July 24, 2008 in the South Los Angeles area of Los Angeles, California. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

Study: NYC better than LA at cutting kids' obesity

Mike Stobbe, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - From 2003 to 2011, obesity rates for poor children dropped in New York to around 16 percent. But they rose in Los Angeles and ended at about 20 percent...
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Rapper Rick Ross performs at the Beats by Dr. Dre CES after-party at the Marquee Nightclub at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on January 10, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Isaac Brekken/Getty Images for Beats by Dre)

Rick Ross sued for allegedly stealing his stage name

Carrie Healey
theGRIO REPORT - Rapper Rick Ross is being sued for allegedly stealing his stage name from Ricky Donnell Ross, a reputed Los Angeles drug trafficker...
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Kimye mansion

First look: Kimye's Bel Air mansion

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SLIDESHOW - Kanye West and Kim Kardashian have taken another step toward becoming a family of three -- purchasing an $11 million mansion in the affluent Bel Air neighborhood in Los Angeles...
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Alesia Thomas, mother dead in the back of an LAPD vehicle

Family sues police for video after violent death in custody

Trymaine Lee, NBC News
NBC NEWS - Alesia Thomas died in police custody last July after having her hands and ankles bound together behind her back and being kicked in the genitals by an officer...
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Notorious BIG (Photo by Al Pereira/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Long-sealed Notorious B.I.G. autopsy released

Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Authorities have released a long-sealed autopsy report showing that rapper Notorious B.I.G. was shot four times in a 1997 drive-by shooting in Los Angeles that remains unsolved...
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