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Los Angeles Times By: Tony Perry Lawsuit alleges that a drunken Andrew Moonen shot the man for no reason after becoming lost after a Christmas Eve party in Baghdad. Reporting from San Diego — Lawyers for the widow and young sons of an Iraqi man allegedly killed by a drunken employee of the former Blackwater…

Daily Journal By: Keith Rohman Before it came to Disneyland, the “It’s a Small World” ride was a featured exhibit at the 1964 World’s Fair in New York. I was 7 years old when I first took the ride, and the world seemed anything but small to me as my family toured the fair that…

NPR All Things Considered By: Dina Temple-Raston Abdul Wahhab,(left) a computer technician at the Trade Bank of Iraq, was driving near Mansoor Square on Sept. 16, when he was shot in the arm, allegedly by Blackwater security guards. Ali Kahlaf Salman (right) is a traffic officer who was working in Mansoor Square in Baghdad on…

Daily Journal By: Keith Rohman Politicians, legal experts and journalists have professed to be appalled and scandalized by Hewlett Packard’s recent boardroom antics. In truth, their expressions of surprise are more akin to the reaction of Capt. Renault in “Casablanca” when he tells Rick, “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in…

Los Angeles Times By: Patrick McGreevy The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s contracting came under increased scrutiny Tuesday as the city attorney turned to private investigators to look into possible overbilling by the public relations firm Fleishman-Hillard and as the department’s own auditors found flaws in its supervision of a contract with a…

CNN Anderson Cooper 360 COOPER: In the movie “Runaway Jury,” Gene Hackman played a ruthless consultant who’s paid to learn everything about prospective jurors, pick which ones will help his client and even blackmail them to voting his way. But how much of the movie was simply Hollywood and how much really happens? With jurors…