Southern California LE - Former Los Angeles Police detective sentenced. by Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Stephanie Ilene Lazarus, 52, has been convicted of biting and shooting Sherri Rasmussen, 29, in her house in the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1986. Lazarus, who became a veteran art theft detective, could get parole in 22 years. Los Angeles Superior ...

Southern California LE - Website asks to boast about your mom by Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, CA (Catholic Online) - Being two week's away from Mother's Day, the website is looking for Mission Viejo's favorite mom, so they are asking any of their readers to submit Mom photos, along with a few sentences telling why Mom is so special. Mothers are the angels of ...

Home-schooled baseball player to go big
by Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Henderson was initially allowed to play high school baseball because the First Baptist Christian School allows up to half the team to be home-schooled. The team roster lists 11 varsity players, which includes the youngest of Henderson's five brothers, Chris, ...

Homeschooling doesn't mean the child always stays at home
by Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - In fact, homeschooled students don't have to go without the many positive things a public education offers, like field trips, band, club and yearbooks.Organizations at the fourth annual Home School Fair showed parents how their children can receive education at ...

More Bad News for the Legionaries of Christ: Fr Thomas Williams Admits Paternity
by Deacon Keith FournierCHESAPEAKE,VA (Catholic Online) - The Legionaries of Christ has been undergoing a major time of penance, purification and restructuring under the corrective hand of the Church. The intervention and oversight was occasioned by the scandal arising out of the immoral double life and criminal ...

Comment left on Facebook ends with demotion of Miami fire captain
by Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Captain Brian Beckmann, a 17-year member of the fire department, allegedly made remarks in reference to the Martin case, where an unarmed teenager who was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer.On Beckmann's Facebook page: "I and my coworkers could ...

Mobster's tomb at Vatican disinterred in investigation into teenager's disappearance
by Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The disappearance has never been solved and has inspired numerous conspiracy theories to this day. When Emanuela vanished without a trace nearly 30 years ago, a witness reported seeing a girl who fit her description getting into a dark green BMW near the music ...

Greeks withdraw $900 million from banks in single day
by Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - An interim government would take Greece to new elections on June 17. An attempt to build a coalition government among various parties collapsed earlier this week.  President Karolos Papoulias warned of "great fear that could develop into a panic," the ...