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Today's front page Daily News prominently features a Q and A with Tennie Pierce, the former firefighter who sued the city of Los Angeles over a prank in which he was fed dog food, conducted by the paper's award-winning reporter Beth Barrett. Normally, Barrett is a great digger and reporter,......

It’s the season for journalism awards, and over the past two weeks L.A. Weekly has emerged with a significant number of fresh honors in four different contests. In the AltWeekly Awards, jointly administered by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, L.A. Weekly came away......

Two more firefighters rake in fortunes – this time for reverse discrimination Two fire captains who were suspended after black firefighter Tennie Pierce was fed dog food (See L.A. Weekly story here) during a station house prank were awarded a total of $1.6 million in damages today by a Los......

The fresh-looking rookie firefighters, decked out in black hats, pants and shirts, pose by a hook-and-ladder truck, smiling broadly at a crowd of graduation-da...

Heat-Releasing MissivesMy cousin, a Los Angeles city fireman, just e-mailed me Christine Pelisek’s article about the Tennie Pierce incident [“What Really Happened at Fire Station 5?” March 16–22]. When he and I first spoke about this after it became public, he was shocked to find me outraged about it, and......

On and Off With Jesus Seven McDonald’s “You’re On With Jesus” [March 9–15] was an absolutely fabulous article! I could not stop reading. I listen to the show, and now it will be so much more for me! Seven’s writing style made it worthwhile; looking forward to reading more. Cookie......