
Andrew Blankstein
Senior Investigative Reporter at NBC News
@NBCNews Investigative Reporter based in L.A. focusing on police, courts and homeland security across the Western U.S. [email protected]
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flipboard.com | Tom Winter |Jonathan Dienst |Marlene Lenthang |Andrew Blankstein
11 hours agoSEMINOLE, Texas — On a Saturday in mid-March, Dr. Ben Edwards put on his scrubs and drove to a sheet metal building in this tiny West Texas city to treat children with measles. Red spots mottled his face; Edwards was sick with measles, too. An outbreak of the disease was swelling in Gaines County, a …
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nbcnews.com | Rich Schapiro |Ryan J. Reilly |Benjamin Goggin |Andrew Blankstein
May 23, 2025, 9:46 AM EDTOn a darkened sidewalk outside the Capital Jewish Museum, he walked past the young couple, then shot them both point-blank in the back. When the woman tried to crawl away, an FBI affidavit says, he reloaded his weapon and fired at her again and again. “Free Palestine,” the man shouted after walking into the building and waiting to be arrested by police.
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telemundo52.com | Eric Leonard |Andrew Blankstein
El exvicealcalde de la alcaldesa de Los Ángeles, Karen Bass, quien fue asesor principal y enlace con la policía y las agencias de seguridad pública, aceptó declararse culpable el jueves de un solo cargo federal por realizar una falsa amenaza de bomba contra el Ayuntamiento.
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nbclosangeles.com | Eric Leonard |Andrew Blankstein
LA Mayor Karen Bass' former deputy mayor, who was a top advisor and liaison with police and public safety agencies, agreed to plead guilty Thursday to a single federal charge of making a hoax bomb threat against City Hall. Brian Williams is accused of using a Google Voice account on his personal cellphone to place a call to his city-issued cellphone during a virtual meeting on October 3, 2024, then reported to the LAPD that the call he received was a bomb threat.
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nbcnews.com | Dennis Romero |Todd Miyazawa |Joe Kottke |Andrew Blankstein
May 20, 2025, 12:37 AM EDTA hearing that could lead to freedom for the Menendez brothers, convicted in their parents' 1989 murder, was pushed back from June 13 to August, California corrections officials said Monday. A spokesperson for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said the brothers’ hearings on parole suitability will be heard instead on Aug. 21 and 22.
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