Frank Candida, 39; Covered Famous Trials
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Frank Candida, 39, a veteran courthouse reporter who covered most of the major criminal cases in Los Angeles during the 1970s and early ‘80s. Sports information director at Cal State Los Angeles since 1984, Candida had worked as a reporter at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, the Register in Santa Ana and City News Service, where he covered the trials of Patty Hearst, the “Hillside Strangler” and the “Alphabet Bomber.” In Alhambra on Friday of pneumonia.
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