Word: freeway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this recantation--as unusual as it was--did not knock the struts out of the story entirely. Ceppos noted that Webb's reporting was "right on many important points." The series did, for example, establish a link between one of the most notorious L.A. drug dealers--"Freeway Rick" Ross--and Nicaraguan suppliers who were admitted supporters of the contras. And while strongly hinting at CIA knowledge of the drug connection, the story never explicitly made that claim...
...Skirball Center Drive, just off the freeway ramp, the body sprawled next to the Mercedes convertible might have been just another victim of random murder and robbery in Los Angeles. Then a strange recognition took place, and America shuddered. The video image was banished from CNN only 20 minutes after it first aired--too horrible to gaze upon, too terrifyingly intimate to contemplate. The body on the roadside was Ennis William Cosby, 27, the only son of Bill Cosby...
Ennis Cosby died in one of the safest areas in Los Angeles. The northbound Mulholland Drive exit off of the I 405 freeway, which connects West Los Angeles to the San Fernando Valley, leads down onto a quiet access road landscaped with rolling hills of green shrubs and small trees. The eastbound road leads to Bel Air, where maps are sold on street corners for tours past the homes of some of Hollywood's biggest stars...
This is why Kay, 32, insists that she was convinced Jackie was coming to kill her when he knocked at the door of her trailer the night of June 28, 1992. "It's like going down the freeway, and you see these cars piled up, and you're going at a certain speed, and you know you'll hit the cars," she says during an interview at the South Central Regional Jail in Charleston, where she is serving a 5-to-18-year sentence for murder. "It's just something that a battered woman knows." The Boone County prosecutor...
...yearlong investigation, the stories allege that a San Francisco Bay-area drug ring, headed by Danilo Blandon and Norwin Meneses, two men with close ties to a CIA-sponsored Nicaraguan contra group known as the FDN, sold tons of coke to a notorious Los Angeles-based dealer named Freeway Rick Ross. Millions of dollars, according to Webb, were then sent back to the secret war against the leftist Sandinista regime. Webb provides a plethora of court documents, recorded interviews and photographs, all of which have been posted on the Mercury's site on the World Wide Web www.sjmercury.com/drugs/)...