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The complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court provides graphic details. Audon Felix Garcia, 41, became sick July 2008 after loading grape boxes into a truck in 112-degree heat from morning to early afternoon in Kern County. He had 15 years of experience in the fields and, according to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fatal Sunshine: The Plight of California's Farm Workers | 8/8/2009 | See Source »

Los Angeles was stunned at the news. L.A. Police Department chief William Bratton was stepping down, less than halfway through his second term, to take a job in the private sector. Even Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who Bratton has partnered with so successfully to lower the city's crime rate, only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why is Los Angeles Losing Its Police Commissioner? | 8/8/2009 | See Source »

Bratton is largely credited for turning the beleaguered police department around - a department marred by antagonism with minority groups, charges of racial profiling and excessive force, and beset by scandals including the Rodney King beating and Los Angeles riots in 1992, as well as the Rampart corruption case, which initiated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why is Los Angeles Losing Its Police Commissioner? | 8/8/2009 | See Source »

However, given Bratton's perceived ambitions, some have wondered whether the move might be motivated by other reasons, including a desire to eventually take on a national law enforcement role. When asked by TIME if part of the reason he took the post was to be better prepared should such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why is Los Angeles Losing Its Police Commissioner? | 8/8/2009 | See Source »

The Los Angeles County coroner's office has seen a surge in the number of bodies not claimed by families for cremation or burial because of economic hardship, according to the Los Angeles Times. At the county coroner's office - which handles homicides and other suspicious deaths - 36% more cremations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death in the Recession: More Bodies Left Unburied | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

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