Drugs

Speeding Cannabis Resentencing with Digital Technology

March 21, 2019

Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas recommended leveraging technology to reach more people whose lives have been hampered by prior convictions for now-legal acts. ... read more »

FDA to more aggressively tackle disruptive drug shortages

July 19, 2018

Most shortages involve low-profit generic pills and injections ... read more »

City Attorney Sues South L.A. Church for Health and Safety Violations

June 15, 2017

The City Attorney's Office sued a South Los Angeles church Monday in an effort to halt alleged drug, gang and firearm activity at a home owned by the house of worship. ... read more »

LADA to Train Law Enforcement on Prosecuting DUI Cases Involving Marijuana, Other Drugs

March 2, 2017

The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office has created a new unit dedicated to training law enforcement personnel on how to investigate and prosecute driving under the influence cases involving marijuana and other drugs. ... read more »

California releases plan to use 1 drug in executions

November 12, 2015

California proposed on Friday November 6, to allow corrections officials to choose one of four types of barbiturates to execute prisoners on death row depending on what’s available, ... read more »

Lamar Odom Recovers from Overdose

October 22, 2015

After being in a hospital in Pahrump, Nevada for almost a week, the two-time NBA Champion and former Sixth Man of the Year Lamar Odom is scheduled to be transported to a Los Angeles hospital via medical helicopter, ... read more »

Drug inmates with long rap sheets among those freed early

October 15, 2015

In this Sept. 16, 2015, photo, Kenneth Evans holds a composite of photographs of his son Tuan Evans, as he poses for a photograph at his home in Temple Hills, ... read more »

Bill Cosby Admits He Acquired Drugs So He Could Give to Women For Sex

July 9, 2015

Bill Cosby finally lets the truth be known that he acquired drugs for the purpose of giving them to women so that he could sleep with them. ... read more »

Jill Scott no longer supports Bill Cosby, ‘I was Wrong’