Are Californians Safe from Their Doctors? The Los Angeles Times has reported that drugs prescribed by doctors played a role in almost half Southern California's deaths from prescription-drug overdoses over a five-year span. At least 30 patients in Southern California died of overdoses while the State Medical Board was conducting investigations. One investigation took four years, during which eight of the doctor's patients died of overdoses or related causes. That's led Democratic State Senator Curren Price of Los Angeles to co-sponsor a bill that would transfer the Board's investigative authority to the Attorney General.

Attorney General Finds 'Gross Misconduct' in Maywood PD Two years ago, the Los Angeles Times detailed a host of police abuses in the City of Maywood.  Then Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez asked for a report from Attorney General Jerry Brown, and today Brown's office demanded reform .  Scott Glover co-authored the original story .

Prosecutors Pursue Charges against Cardinal Mahony Los Angeles' Roman Catholic Archdiocese has agreed to pay $660 million to the victims of pedophile priests. But a federal grand jury is investigating Cardinal Roger Mahony on possible charges of fraud. That's according to today's LA Times.  Scott Glover co-wrote the story .

A Judge and his Risqué Web Site Alex Kozinski is presiding judge of the 9th Federal Circuit Court of Appeals which covers the western states.  Last week he was hearing a high-profile obscenity trial in Los Angeles.  Just as jury selection ended, the LA Times ran an article about pictures on a website Kozinski maintained. There is still heated dispute about whether the pictures were “obscene,” but Kozinski shut down the website and declared a mistrial.  At his request, US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has empanelled five other judges to conduct an investigation .