Deputy Police Chief Kenneth O. Garner Passing Tribute Some 3,000 people attended the South L.A. funeral of Deputy Police Chief Kenneth O. Garner who served the LAPD for three decades.  Garner was the second-highest-ranking black officer in the department.   National Mass Transit Costs Surge As gas prices soared, so did the use of mass [...]

BACK IN THE SADDLE  The curtain went down momentarily for two of our fav funny men over the past couple of months.  Both are back as good as ever.  YEAH!   Robin Williams mending nicely after an aortic valve replace- ment.  All went well and his reps say that he will resume touring in the [...]

Three defendants have been charged with conspiring to furnish controlled substances to Anna Nicole Smith between July 2004 and January 2007.  Smith’s long-time companion Howard Stern and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor were charged with one count of unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance, while Khristine Eroshevich and Stern were charged with unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance. Kapoor [...]

  Justin Timberlake has hit a bump of legal troubles.  It seems he and his touring entourage bowed out of a 2007 concert set for the Staples Center in Los Angeles.  Accoring to papers filed in the L.A. Superior Court, the rights to the debunked concert were held by Andrew Kim.  Kim is asking $30,000,000 [...]

Santino, a 30-year-old chimpanzee who has lived in a Swedish zoo most of his life, is the only male in a group of half a dozen females.  He shows displeasure at human observers and flings stones or bits of concrete at them, but quickly finding suitable weapons isn’t an easy task, so the chimp starts [...]

In an attempt to address the 50th anniversary of a failed uprising against China Pro-Tibet, protesters tried to break through a police line guarding the Chinese embassy.  Approximately 12 activists charged the barrier line during a march from Parliament House in support of Tibetan independence.  During the incident there was a heated argument between demonstrators [...]

China reported that a U.S. Navy ship was involved in a confrontation with some of its vessels off the southern island of Hainan.  They said the incident  violated international law.  Ma Zhaoxu Foreign ministry spokesman said that U.S. reports that five Chinese vessels harassed the USNS Impeccable were “totally inaccurate”.  China requested that the U.S. [...]

Riverside, Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties say that assessors are going to pull in the lowest numbers in property tax collections in more than 10 years—bad news for their cash-poor local governments. In the past, revenue from property taxes provided a steady source of income for cities. Assessors say that the reduction in auto [...]

Actor/comedian Dane Cook’s half brother was indicted by a grand jury for allegedly stealing millions from the funny man.  Darryl McCauley was charged with eight counts of larceny over $250 and forgery and larceny by continuous scheme.  Prosecutors said that McCauley had forged a $3 million check written from Cook’s account to himself.  Reports say [...]

Deputy Police Chief Kenneth O. Garner Passing Tribute More than 3,000 people attended the South L.A. funeral of Deputy Police Chief Kenneth O. Garner who served the LAPD for more than three decades.  Garner, the second-highest-ranking black officer in the department, passed away at his Pasadena home.  The tribute was held at the Crenshaw Christian [...]