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• 12 Dead at Fort Hood, 31 Wounded

  I’ve put up a live twitter freed about the ongoing Fort Hood story, in the box to the right. Terrible stuff. This morning I was talking to a south LA mother friend about her worry about her son. Earlier in the week, the kid had been stopped and “hit up” by [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 2:52pm EST
  by Celeste Fremon

• USC’S Neon Tommy Reporters Tackle the Swine Flu

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  One of the models being talked about for its importance to journalism’s future is the collaboration between journalism schools and public news organizations, particularly non -profits. Today, Thursday, Neon Tommy, one of the student run online publications coming out of the Annenberg School of Journalism demonstrated a case in point with [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:16am EST
  by Celeste Fremon

• Did Florida’s LWOP 13-year-old Get a Fair Trial?

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  Amy Bach, author of Ordinary Justice: How America Holds Court, has a troubling article in Slate about the question that no one seems to be asking regarding one of the juvenile life cases that will soon be heard by SCOTUS: Namely, did the kid even do the crime that got [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 2:06am EST
  by Celeste Fremon

• Meet the New Chief-to-Be

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  Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa invites you personally (plus all your closest friends and associates) to meet Charlie Beck, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Nominee, on Thursday November 5, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. at a Community Town Hall. The Town Hall will take place at the El Sereno Senior Center located at [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 1:44am EST
  by Celeste Fremon

• Choosing Charlie Beck: The Spin Factor & the Future

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  Most who closely tracked the selection of, at first, 13-candidates, then three finalists, and finally Deputy Chief Charlie Beck as the yet-to-be confirmed new chief of the LAPD, have likely read the article by Joel Rubin and Phil Willon in Wednesday morning’s paper, an account of the last minute wrestling [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 1:04am EST
  by Celeste Fremon