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Even after two men were found dead in his California apartment, Ed Buck did not stop injecting gay men with walloping doses of methamphetamine. A federal judge on Thursday sentenced him to 30 years in prison in the deaths of Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean. Another man, Dane Brown, was repeatedly injected by Buck but […]

Rep. Ken Buck’s (R-Colo.) vocal criticism over a House GOP-led impeachment of President Biden is risking backlash from members of his own party.  Earlier this month, Buck voiced hesitation over an impeachment inquiry, saying in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper that he wouldn’t support the effort because he wasn’t “convinced that that evidence exists.” […]

A federal prosecutor accused Ed Buck’s defense of “despicable victim shaming” on Friday after a lawyer for the suspect in two methamphetamine overdose deaths dismissed eight men who testified against Buck as drug addicts who were lying to make money. The harsh exchanges came after nearly two weeks of searing testimony came to an end […]

Ed Buck, the prominent political donor who was arrested in connection with a pair of fatal overdoses at his home, was convicted on all nine federal charges against him Tuesday. Buck was convicted of two counts of distribution of methamphetamine resulting in death, four counts of distribution of methamphetamine, one count of maintaining a drug-involved […]

The men Ed Buck lured to his apartment for “party and play” found themselves in a situation of life and death, prosecutors said. Two men enticed by the promise of drugs for sex died. Those who survived overdoses reported harrowing encounters with a man bent on injecting them with methamphetamine and slipping them other drugs. […]

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) agrees with Democrats that the future of democracy may be at stake in the upcoming election, but in an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal he says the biggest threat is posed by liberals who want to bury democratic accountability under bureaucracy. “Across all three branches of the […]

A federal judge has ruled that Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies acted properly when they seized drugs and other evidence from the West Hollywood home of Democratic donor Ed Buck after a man was found dead there in 2017. The ruling raises new questions about why L.A. County prosecutors initially declined to charge Buck with […]

Ed Miller has attended Indiana football and basketball games since the early 1970s, and he’s never seen a fall quite like this. As the leaves change colors and flutter to the ground, and the action ramps up for one of college basketball’s true blueblood programs, everyone around Bloomington is focused on what’s happening inside the […]

Delta Air Lines is backtracking slightly on changes it previously announced in its frequent-flyer program, but it still plans to reshape SkyMiles to favor big spenders over customers who take the most flights. Delta outlined the revisions in an email from CEO Ed Bastian to SkyMiles members on Wednesday. “I have read hundreds of your […]

Every House Democrat has endorsed the discharge petition to force a vote on legislation to hike the debt ceiling and prevent a default, party leaders announced Wednesday. The signatures of the two final holdouts — Reps. Jared Golden (D-Maine) and Ed Case (D-Hawaii) — puts the total number at 213, meaning Democratic leaders still need to find […]

As the page turns on another month and lemonade gives way to pumpkin spice lattes, autumn is officially knocking on the door. One of the most obvious signs of the shifting season is the literal changing of the colors that paint our landscape. And even though California isn’t the first state most people think of […]

The public has increasingly soured on Congress — and now, some House lawmakers are starting to agree. With legislating all but brought to a halt and partisanship at an alarming high, members of Congress in both parties are running for the exits, opting out of another term on Capitol Hill to vie for higher office […]

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — The greatest moment of Scott Rolen’s 17-year career didn’t come during his 2006 World Series run with the St. Louis Cardinals or even during his outstanding first full season in 1997 with the Philadelphia Phillies, which earned him unanimous National League Rookie of the Year honors. For Rolen, one of two […]

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Kicking up a cloud of dust, the men riding bareback were in a rowdy scramble to be the first to lean down from atop their horses and grab hold of the chicken that was buried up to its neck in the ground. The competition is rarely on display these days and […]

WORTHINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Over the past generation, immigrants from Southeast Asia, East Africa and now predominantly Central America have transformed Worthington, a once overwhelmingly white farming community. Students of color constitute more than 80% of those enrolled in K-12, Spanish is most children’s first language, and soccer is far more popular than football. “Literally […]

A group of Democrats says big oil companies are enjoying their biggest windfall in more than a decade, as gas prices skyrocket.

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A judge sentenced a Michigan teenager to life in prison Friday for killing four students and terrorizing others at Oxford High School, after listening to hours of gripping anguish from parents and wounded survivors. Judge Kwame Rowe rejected pleas from defense lawyers for a shorter sentence and ensured that Ethan Crumbley, […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Legislative efforts in Missouri and Mississippi are attempting to prevent voters from having a say over abortion rights, building on anti-abortion strategies seen in other states, including last year in Ohio. Democrats and abortion rights advocates say the efforts are evidence that Republican lawmakers and abortion opponents are trying to undercut democratic […]

The Senate has bucked Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) latest effort to get his energy deal with Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) attached to must-pass legislation. The chamber blocked Manchin’s permitting reform amendment from getting onto a defense funding bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act in an 47-47 vote. Sixty votes were needed to […]

Wealthy political donor Ed Buck was charged with four additional felonies Tuesday in a new indictment alleging he lured men into interstate prostitution — including Gemmel Moore, one of the men who’s fatally overdosed in Buck’s West Hollywood apartment. Buck, 65, was arrested last September after a man overdosed on methamphetamine in his apartment, following […]

The White House is warning House Republicans that a potential impeachment inquiry into President Biden will only backfire on an already fractured conference. The possibility of an impeachment inquiry appears to be growing, with Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) giving signals recently that one could be launched as soon as September. Republicans have hammered the White […]

NEW YORK (AP) — About an hour before addressing the packed house at Citi Field, a concentrated Keith Hernandez stared in deep study at his index cards in a mostly empty interview room — his big brother sitting just a step away. Always prepared. Always a pro. Always with Gary by his side. A rock-steady […]

WORTHINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Two Guatemalans wearing traditional embroidered skirts bought coconut boba teas on an October afternoon at the bustling downtown Asian market. In decades past, the building served as this rural town’s hardware store where farmers shopped for hammers, nuts and bolts. Over the past generation, immigrants from Southeast Asia, East Africa and […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The song is simple and tinny, but that hasn’t stopped it from being embraced by former President Donald Trump and his allies in their campaign to rewrite the history of the deadly Capitol riot. The tune, “Justice for All,” is the Star-Spangled Banner, and it was sung by a group of defendants […]

PARIS (AP) — He may have died last November, but Virgil Abloh lived on at Paris Fashion Week Thursday in a high-energy runway spectacular for Louis Vuitton menswear. A Black marching band gave a rousing performance on a surreal yellow brick road installation inside the Louvre, while rapper Kendrick Lamar performed a live ode to […]

Legal cannabis in California is a multi-billion dollar industry, and many Californians are trying to figure out how to get a piece of the action. But specific hurdles and a lack of industry knowledge have made it challenging for prospective employees and entrepreneurs to break in and get their careers started. That’s why the University […]

The sisters of a gay man who died in the West Hollywood home of Ed Buck last year have filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the wealthy Democratic donor, alleging he was a drug dealer who preyed on black men and injected their brother with a lethal dose of crystal methamphetamine for his own sexual gratification. […]

Former Trump campaign director Bill Stepien and a Georgia-based U.S. attorney President Donald Trump weighed firing are among those who will testify Monday as the Jan. 6 committee works to show how the former president forged ahead with plans to remain in power despite being “told again and again that he didn’t have [the] numbers to win.”

Christopher Darden, best known for prosecuting O.J. Simpson, is now representing Ed Buck, the Democratic donor accused of supplying fatal doses of narcotics to two men who died in his West Hollywood apartment.O According to a 22-page complaint unsealed in September, Buck, 65, lured poor and vulnerable men to his apartment with promises of “party […]

Attorneys for the mother of Gemmel Moore, a 26-year-old man who died of a methamphetamine overdose at the home of Ed Buck, have filed an amendment to a wrongful death lawsuit that targets Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey and Assistant Head Deputy Attorney Craig Hum for failing to properly investigate and charge Buck […]

Holding homemade signs, a crowd has gathered in downtown L.A. nearly every Wednesday for two and a half years, screaming a familiar chant. “Jackie Lacey must go! Jackie Lacey will go!” Their mission has intensified in the wake of George Floyd’s death and resulting nationwide protests. But unlike other Black Lives Matter targets — including police brutality […]

Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey is facing two challengers in next week’s primary election who are united in their criticism of her handling of police shootings and criminal justice reform. Lacey, an L.A. native and the county’s first African American prosecutor, has touted her efforts to place mentally ill and homeless offenders in […]

Jasmyne Cannick was speaking at a Democratic club meeting Tuesday night when her phone buzzed with a text: The police were raiding Ed Buck’s West Hollywood apartment. His neighbors had been alerting Cannick, a political consultant and activist for the black LGBTQ community, about comings and goings at the location after two gay black men […]

California political donor Ed Buck has pleaded not guilty to federal drug charges in the overdose deaths of two men in his apartment. Buck entered the plea Thursday before a magistrate judge in Los Angeles as relatives of the men watched. An indictment charges Buck with distributing methamphetamine resulting in the deaths of Timothy Dean […]

West Hollywood City Councilman John Duran said Ed Buck once hung an effigy of him in a park. Some municipal employees said they refused to meet alone with him, and he unnerved two political foes so much at council meetings that sheriff’s deputies accompanied them to their cars afterward. Still, for years, Buck was a […]

A black member of Congress on Wednesday called it “incomprehensible” that after the overdose deaths of two African American men at the apartment of wealthy and influential Los Angeles area gay activist Edward Buck, a third man nearly died there before authorities arrested Buck. The men died in 2017 and early 2019 but Buck skirted […]

He said he met Ed Buck through the dating website Adam for Adam. Months later, he found himself drugged inside Buck’s apartment. Authorities said the man was able to escape, and that was key in arresting the Democratic donor and West Hollywood activist last week. But now, as national attention has focused on the Buck […]

Looming over Senate Democrats this year is a decision that could fundamentally change Congress: whether to change or eliminate the rules of the filibuster to enact President Joe Biden’s agenda. Liberal advocates have pushed hard for the change, urging the Senate to modify or eliminate rules that now require a vote by 60 of the […]

Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey told a political club Monday night that errors committed by Sheriff’s Department deputies and a coroner’s office investigator may have played a significant role in the decision not to criminally charge Ed Buck in the death of a man who overdosed in his West Hollywood home in 2017. […]

Stunning new allegations that Democratic donor Ed Buck paid at least 10 men to use drugs for his pleasure have sparked more questions from activists and others about why it took so long to uncover the longtime West Hollywood political activist’s alleged misconduct. Buck has been the subject of protests and demands for justice since […]

Detectives were able to build a case against Democratic donor Ed Buck on drug charges by following the 911 call made by a man who authorities allege was drugged at Buck’s West Hollywood home. Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said in an interview Wednesday that his department had been closely monitoring Buck after two […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Harry Belafonte, the civil rights and entertainment giant who began as a groundbreaking actor and singer and became an activist, humanitarian and conscience of the world, has died. He was 96. Belafonte died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at his New York home, his wife Pamela by his side, said publicist […]

Harry Belafonte, the barrier-breaking singer, actor, and activist has died at 96 years old at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Belafonte died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at his New York home, his wife, Pamela, by his side, said Ken Sunshine, of public relations firm Sunshine Sachs Morgan & Lylis. With […]

Harry Belafonte, the civil rights and entertainment giant who began as a groundbreaking actor and singer and became an activist, humanitarian and conscience of the world, has died. He was 96.

Two years after her son was found dead of a drug overdose at the home of Democratic donor Ed Buck, LaTisha Nixon publicly spoke out at a news conference on Wednesday, where she voiced her disappointment with local authorities that it took so long for Buck to face charges. Nixon reflected on life without her […]

Wealthy California political donor Ed Buck was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury for two overdose deaths in his West Hollywood apartment and charged with providing methamphetamine to three other men, one of whom survived two overdoses. The indictment returned in U.S. District Court charged Buck with distributing meth resulting in the deaths of […]

Federal prosecutors announced on Thursday that they have filed charges against prominent Democratic donor Ed Buck in connection with the 2017 death of Gemmel Moore at his West Hollywood apartment. Buck, 65, has been charged with providing methamphetamine to a victim who died after receiving the drug intravenously, according to a news release from the […]

Ed Buck, a prominent Democratic donor and political activist, was arrested Tuesday and charged with operating a drug house and providing methamphetamine to a 37-year-old man who suffered an overdose at Buck’s West Hollywood apartment last week, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said. Buck is charged with three counts of battery causing serious […]

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol will hold a primetime hearing on Thursday as it seeks to bring its findings to the public.  

Demonstrators gathered outside the West Hollywood home of Democratic donor Ed Buck, demanding answers about the investigation into the deaths of two black men in Buck’s apartment. Activists say Buck is getting a free pass because of his political connections. John Fenoglio reports for the KTLA 5 News at 6 on Feb. 23, 2019.

The second man to die in the West Hollywood home of Democratic donor and activist Ed Buck was unresponsive for at least 15 minutes before anyone called 911, according to the man’s autopsy report. The Los Angeles County coroner’s report, which was obtained by The Times on Friday, says that Timothy Dean, 55, died on […]

A man found dead in democratic donor Ed Buck’s West Hollywood home died as a result of an accidental methamphetamine overdose, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department said Monday. Timothy Dean, 55, was found unresponsive at Buck’s apartment on the 1200 block of Laurel Avenue on January 7 and was pronounced dead at the scene, according […]

The second deadly drug overdose within two years at the West Hollywood home of a well-known political donor remained under investigation Tuesday. The death of 55-year-old Timothy Dean at Ed Buck’s apartment on Jan. 7 has been ruled an accidental methamphetamine overdose, county officials announced Monday. Dean’s death marked the second time a black man […]

Cloris Leachman, an Oscar-winner for her portrayal of a lonely housewife in “The Last Picture Show” and a comedic delight as the fearsome Frau Blücher in “Young Frankenstein” and self-absorbed neighbor Phyllis on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” has died. She was 94. Leachman died in her sleep of natural causes at her home in […]

After the body of a black man was found in longtime Democratic donor Ed Buck’s West Hollywood apartment this week, U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu announced he will donate more than $18,000 in campaign contributions he received from Buck to LGBTQ and African American civil rights organizations. Buck’s Laurel Avenue apartment has been the scene of […]

The mother of a gay black man who died in the West Hollywood home of Ed Buck has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the longtime Democratic donor, alleging he was a drug dealer who injected her son with a fatal dose of crystal methamphetamine. The suit filed Tuesday by LaTisha Nixon, whose 26-year-old son, […]

The mother of Gemmel Moore led protesters on Friday outside Ed Buck’s West Hollywood apartment, where her son and another man died, in calling for the Democratic Party donor’s prosecution in both cases, saying he has a documented history of targeting vulnerable black men. Kimberly Cheng reports for the KTLA 5 News at 10 on […]

Yevgeny Prigozhin rose from being an ex-con and hot dog vendor to winning lucrative Kremlin contracts and heading a formidable mercenary army. But it all came to a sudden end when the private plane carrying him and others mysteriously exploded over Russia. Prigozhin’s Aug. 23 death put an exclamation point on what had already been […]

The Laurel Avenue home of a prominent West Hollywood LGBTQ political activist has been the scene of two mysterious deaths in the last two years. In both cases, African American men were found dead inside the home of Ed Buck. The first death in 2017 involved drugs, and authorities said there was insufficient evidence to […]

The attorney for Ed Buck, the longtime Democratic donor whose West Hollywood home has been the scene of two black men’s deaths since 2017, said Friday that critics have unfairly used race to blame his client for the deaths. “Some people still want us to have a race war,” attorney Seymour Amster said of Buck’s […]