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Hearing Set for Ex-School Cop Convicted in Shooting Hoax
KTLA NewsLOS ANGELES, Calif. (KTLA) -- A post-sentencing hearing is scheduled Wednesday for the former LAPD campus police officer who staged his own shooting. Jeffrey Stenroos, 31, has already paid the L.A. City Council $309,000 in restitution for the bizarre...Tags: Fakes, Hoaxes, and Impostors, Juvenile Delinquency, Crime, Law and Justice, Dennis P. Zine, Prisons
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LB Woman Gets Probation in Abandoned Baby Hoax
KTLA NewsLONG BEACH, Calif. (KTLA) -- A woman accused of lying to police about finding an abandoned newborn at a gas station has been sentenced to three years of probation. Sonia Hernandez, 52, pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of filing a false police...Tags: Fakes, Hoaxes, and Impostors, Martin Luther King Jr., Downstream Oil and Gas Activities, Prosecution, Abusive Behavior
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Alleged Cannibal Arrested After Police Find 'Human Stew' in Fridge
KTLA NewsMOSCOW -- A suspected cannibal is behind bars after being arrested in connection with the discovery of dismembered body parts that were scattered around Moscow. The suspect, identified as Nikolai Shadrin, was taken into custody after police found a...Tags: Human Body, Human Interest, News Agency, Crime, Law and Justice, Moscow (Russia)
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Spooky Science
Gayle Anderson was live in Santa Ana at SPOOKY SCIENCE, a Halloween related event at the Discovery Science Center. No magnifying glass needed here! These bugs are larger than life! Experience giant bug animatronics, a world-class insect collection, and...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Health, Water, Health and Medical Professionals, Santa Ana
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Deadly Hit-and-Run Ends with Mob Beating Man Trying to Help
KTLA NewsHAWTHORNE (KTLA) -- Police in Hawthorne are investigating a bizarre incident in which a mob beat a man as he was trying to help a pedestrian who he had hit with his car. That pedestrian was herself trying to help a man who had been run over by two hit-...Tags: Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Human Interest, Crime, Law and Justice, Los Angeles Times
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Colombia Plane Crashes in Thunderstorm, 130 Survive
Associated PressBOGOTA, Colombia -- A Boeing 737 jetliner carrying 131 people crashed in a thunderstorm and broke apart as it slid onto the runway on a Caribbean island on Monday. The region's governor said it was a miracle that only one person died. Colombian Air...Tags: Health, Health and Medical Professionals, U.S. Embassy, Executive Branch, Disasters and Accidents
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911 Hoax Sends Norwalk Deputies Scrambling
KTLA NewsNORWALK -- The emergency 911 call to the L.A. County Sheriff's Norwalk office sounded real -- a man told the dispatcher he shot a woman on the spot. Gunshots could be heard in the background. But, the frantic call was a hoax and authorities say they're...Tags: Fakes, Hoaxes, and Impostors, Human Interest, Crime, Law and Justice, Disasters and Accidents, Chinese Restaurants
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Accused Serial Killer Calls Himself 'Crossbow Cannibal'
KTLA NewsLONDON -- A doctoral student researching murder was accused of being a killer himself Friday, appearing in court on charges of killing three prostitutes in northern England. In a case whose details have startled the country, Stephen Griffiths is...Tags: Archery, Crime, Law and Justice, London (England), Death, Crossbow Shooting
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Monstrous Star Discovered Near The Milky Way
KTLA NewsCAMBRIDGE, MA -- A monstrous star - perhaps the mother of all stars - has been discovered deep in the Tarantula Nebula by astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The massive star is called R136a1, an understated name for a mass of...Tags: Astronomy, Science and Technology, Science
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Manson Family: Murder and Madness 40 years Later
Associated PressLOS ANGELES -- Forty years ago, they were kids. Vulnerable, alienated, running away from a world wracked by war and rebellion. They turned to a cult leader for love and wound up tied to a web of unimaginable evil. They were part of Charles Manson's...Tags: San Francisco, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers, Gerald Ford, Celebrity Parents
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Judge Throws Out Conviction in Deadly MySpace Hoax
KTLA NewsLOS ANGELES -- In a stunning move, a federal judge has tentatively decided to reverse a jury's verdicts and acquit a Missouri woman who had been convicted of computer fraud charges stemming from an Internet hoax that prompted a teenage girl to commit...Tags: Fakes, Hoaxes, and Impostors, Missouri, Josh Evans, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice
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