Los Angeles teacher charged with lewd acts

LOS ANGELES (MCT) — In the fall of 2010, a drugstore photo technician was running a batch of 35-millimeter film when a disturbing image tumbled out of the machine — a child, blindfolded with a white cloth and gagged with clear packing tape. From that first photograph, detectives spent the next year following a trail that led them to a South Los Angeles elementary school.

Ex-Los Angeles elementary teacher's bail raised to $23 million in molest case

LOS ANGELES - Bail for a former Los Angeles elementary school teacher has been raised to $23 million in a case where he's accused of taking bizarre photos of children in his classroom for a sexual thrill.

Los Angeles teacher charged in molestation of 23 kids

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Detectives say the elementary school teacher told the children it was a game. Once inside his third-grade classroom, he blindfolded them, gagged them and set cockroaches crawling on their faces.

Police nab Mexican drug boat north of Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Police seized a motorboat packed with more than a ton of marijuana north of Los Angeles and arrested three Mexican men, the latest seizure as traffickers try to beat tougher border security by taking to the waves, authorities said on Tuesday. U.S. Border Patrol agents intercepted the open-topped "panga" style vessel packed with plastic-wrapped bundles of marijuana at ...

Kirk Stewart Joins IA Interior Architects in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IA Interior Architects (IA) is pleased to announce that Kirk Stewart has joined the firm as Project Director. He will be based in Los Angeles.Kirk has over 20 ...