West Los Angeles Shooting Claims Life Of One, Injures Another On Playboy Crip...
One person was killed and another was injured in a shooting in West Los Angeles a couple miles south of Beverly Hills today. The attack in an alley near South Garth and Cadillac avenues was re...
View ArticleAndrea Alarcon Resigns From Public Works Following DUI, Child Endangerment...
See also: *Andrea Alarcon's Rise and Fall. After she was accused of drunk driving with her child in the car and then had to be tracked down after allegedly letting her child roam the City Hall ...
View ArticleWatch Downtown Los Angeles Building Disappear (VIDEO)
The commercial real estate listing service Loopnet made a downtown Los Angeles building disappear live in front of a wowed audience. And we have the video (after the jump) to prove it. Okay, s...
View ArticleAndre Lowe: Vigil For Teen Shot Outside Empire Club In Hollywood
A vigil for 19-year-old Andre Lowe, fatally shot outside Hollywood's Empire Club last weekend, was scheduled for 5:30 tonight. Organizers state that he was not a gang member and had just passed...
View ArticleAlpine Village Shooting Takes Life Outside Aggression, Circle One Punk Show
A Torrance-area punk rock show featuring regional bands Aggression, Circle One, Dirty Rebels and others ended in violence, with one man fatally shot and another injured from a stabbing, authori...
View ArticleSanta Monica Beach Sex Attack Suspect Described
It happened again: A man recently grabbed a woman on the beach in Santa Monica and attempted to sexually assault her. In fall a jogger was chased down by a man and raped, police said, but in th...
View ArticleSuccessful People Cope With Rejection Better, Says California Study
Successful people didn't get where they are by sittin' on ass. A new study suggests that folks in positions of power are far less fazed by rejection. In fact, UC Berkeley researchers found, the...
View ArticleAngel Serna Mancilla: Man Fatally Shot Outside Eastside Taco Truck
Cops were searching for the suspect who shot 27-year-old Angel Serna Mancilla outside an Eastside taco truck over the weekend. The attack near Monterey Hills, in the 5100 block of Huntington Dr...
View ArticleMikel Ruffinelli: World's Biggest Hips Might Just Be Right Here In Los Angeles
L.A. resident Mikel Ruffinelli sidesteps through doorways and shimmies into her shower stall. That's because she has nearly 100-inch-wide hips, perhaps the largest in the world. And she's proud...
View ArticleCalifornia's Latino Demographic Takeover Starts In Summer, Says Gov's Office
This is the year Latinos will overtake whites as the largest ethnic group in California. (Pete Wilson is turning in his grave. Wait, he's still alive?!). So says the office of Gov. Jerry Brown...
View ArticleMike Kubeisy Honored For Rescuing LAPD Officer 19 Years After Northridge Quake
When the "big one" hits, who will rescue the rescuers? Nearly 20 years ago that job went to Mike Kubeisy, a neighbor who pulled LAPD Officer Joseph Jordan, his wife and three other residents ou...
View Article2013 Mayoral Race: Underdog Jan Perry Courts Pet Vote in Odd Campaign Video
If you were a pet in Los Angeles and could vote, you'd probably pick mayoral candidate and City Councilwoman Jan Perry. In an odd campaign video, Perry lays out an "ambitious" pro-pet agenda wit...
View ArticleMarijuana Remains 'Schedule 1' Outlaw Under Federal Court Ruling Today
Despite growing evidence that marijuana is more than just a buzz-drug, a federal appeals court rejected an attempt to reclassify pot as a medically recognized substance. The United States Court...
View ArticleAlejandro Razo Accused Of Having Sex With Dead Woman At Sherman Oaks Hospital
A Reseda man was arrested on suspicion of having sex with a dead woman, police say. The Los Angeles County Department of Coroner planned an autopsy on the body as part of the investigation, but ...
View ArticleByron Adams, Bill Rosendahl, Stevie St. John and L.A. Gay Equality Warriors...
From revered gay UC Riverside professor and brilliant classical composer Byron Adams to Spectrum L.A. gay blog editor Stevie St. John, prominent Los Angeles-area lifelong fighters for equality ...
View ArticleMarijuana Dispensary Controls Coming To L.A. May Ballot
It looks like you'll get to vote on at least two initiatives that seek to regulate L.A.'s booming medical marijuana business. The L.A. City Council today gave its initial approval to to competi...
View ArticleCrime's Up In One Westside L.A. Neighborhood: Del Rey
Despite news out of City Hall this month that crime was down in 2012 for the 10th-straight year, there's a felonious hot-spot of ill behavior right in the middle of the Westside. The community ...
View ArticleAndre Lowe, 19, Had Been At 21+ Empire Club In Hollywood Before His Murder...
The 19-year-old gunned down outside the Empire Club in Hollywood two weekends ago in violence caught on tape had been inside the venue despite its 21-and-older policy, police tell the Weekly. B...
View ArticleSorry, Porn Industry, But Americans Are Just Fine With Condom Sex, Study Says
One of the arguments heard in the porn industry's fight against mandatory condoms is that they're uncomfortable and can help create harmful friction during sex. Nina Hartley has been the most ...
View ArticleWill Cardinal Roger Mahony Face Charges for Sex Abuse Cover Up? SNAP says Yes
On the front page of this morning's Los Angeles Times, the paper notes that several legal experts suspect Cardinal Roger Mahony will not face criminal charges for covering up clergy sex abuse du...
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