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Dec. 15, 2011
California
Edgar Sargsyan, who presented himself as the right hand of an Armenian crime figure, was sentenced to six months after testifying against his former mentor and others.
Dec. 4, 2023
Letters to the Editor
Taron Sargsyan overcame addiction. Now, he wants other LGBTQ+ students in California to feel supported so they don’t have to experience the pain he endured.
Oct. 6, 2023
Opinion
Watching judges and lawyers uphold basic legal processes amid the Trump show provides some reassurance, plus more from the week in Opinion.
Oct. 7, 2023
Politics
‘No way he stays,’ one California congressman wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
Dec. 6, 2023
‘Where do you go?’ U.S. District Judge Gary Klausner asked before handing Babak Broumand a six-year sentence — four years less than what prosecutors had requested.
Feb. 27, 2023
World & Nation
Armenia finds itself amid one of the worst political crises in its decades of independence following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.
Oct. 2, 2023
Azerbaijan’s forces fired artillery at Armenian positions in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Sept. 19, 2023
For a time, Edgar Sargsyan was riding high in the criminal underworld of Los Angeles. But by 2018, Sargsyan found himself in bankruptcy court.
Dec. 13, 2022