You might have missed this, but The Associated Press’s Erica Werner covered the annual release Monday of congressional disclosure reports, in hopes it would shed some light on that whole Congresswoman Laura Richardson (D-Long Beach) thing.
“In earlier disclosure forms filed in May, the first-term Democrat listed no liabilities, although reports emerged late last month she [...]

Opening statements were yesterday in Long Beach accountant Yasith Chhun’s trial on charges of allegedly spearheading a coup attempt in Cambodia, and jurors got a chance–so the Assistant U.S. Attorney said–to go inside Operation Volcano.
The Press-Telegram’s story today is from Greg Risling of The Associated Press.
Operation Volcano is reportedly the name of the group Chhun [...]

A great man is gone: Cambodian-born photographer and reporter Dith Pran, whose personal story of escaping the enslavement and genocide of 1970s Cambodia under dictator Pol Pot became the film “The Killing Fields,” died Sunday of pancreatic cancer.
Dith, 65, is credited with coining the terrible term “killing fields,” according to The Associated Press, whose obituary [...]