In Focus: Staff photos from April 13-19
Helen Golay, right, reacts as a jury convicts her of murder. The jury also found her co-defendant Olga Rutterschmidt, left, guilty of conspiracy to commit murder in a chilling slow-motion plot to kill two homeless men for $2.8 million in life insurance. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)
American Airlines pilots demonstrate at
A utility worker shuts off the gas to a house where a twin-engine Cessna 310 plane crashed into two homes in the 500 block of West Cypress Street in Compton. The crash seriously injured the pilot, a passenger and three people on the ground. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Ann T. Harmer, co-director of the plastination lab at
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Participants at a demonstration in UCLA lie down to represent some of the 32 victims of the
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A Rufous hummingbird sips on the nectar from an
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Maribel Silva, left, Francisca Dominguez and Vanessa Zorros cheer the Costa Chica soccer team to victory at a game on a middle school field in Pasadena. The Costa Chica team is made up largely of Mexicans with cultural and racial histories going back hundreds of years to the Spanish conquistadors and the African slave trade. It has cut a winning path through the heart of an immigrant-dominated league in Pasadena, capturing three championships in two years. (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)
Jessica Ortega, 30, an alleged gang member, is arraigned in downtown L.A. in the fatal April 10 shooting of motorist Samantha Padilla, 19, an LAX baggage handler, near a freeway offramp in South Los Angeles. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)