More than two and a half years ago, Christian Hornburg was attacked by a man with a metal pipe at a Santa Monica train station, and he still is suffering physically and mentally from the incident. The man who assaulted him, Job Taylor, yelled racial slurs ...

When former Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner entered a federal diversion program to avoid prosecution last month, she was the beneficiary of the exact type of program she let fall to pieces in her own office. Diversion programs are designed to attack the root ...