11-Year-Old Killed by Stepfather in Westlake, Cops Say
An 11-year-old boy was fatally stabbed over the holiday weekend, and his stepfather was suspected of doing it. The Monday morning attack shocked a Westlake neighborhood west of downtown L.A. It...
View ArticlePerv Stalks Tujunga School Girls, Tries to Kidnap One, LAPD Says
Cops are on the lookout for a brazen perv who followed a group of girls near Tujunga's Mountain View Elementary School over the weekend and then allegedly tried to kidnap one of them. It happen...
View ArticleMarijuana Decriminalization Means More Kids Getting Pot Accidentally
Medical marijuana might have endowed your life with many benefits, not the least of which is no longer having to call for delivery from a dealer named Murder. But in places where it's quite eas...
View ArticleLAPD Cop's Attorney Says Client Didn't Molest Girls
It was a story that was so shocking it was almost hard to believe. An LAPD officer with six years on the force one day decided to lure two girls under the age of 10 into his Castaic-area residen...
View ArticleJC Penney 'Hitler Billboard' in Culver City Sparks Controversy
It's been a bad year so far for JC Penney. It had a CEO, Ron Johnson, who worked as a top executive at ultra-cool Apple, Inc. But he didn't get this kind of retail and proceeded to alienate the ...
View ArticleTwo Dodgers Going in Completely Different Directions
In deference to Clayton Kershaw, let's separate the "best player" from "best position player" label, shall we. Adrian Gonzalez is L.A.'s best position player. He's their MVP. And you might sa...
View ArticleCamera Tripod "Rifle" Sets Off Chaminade School Campus Lockdown
Chaminade High School in West Hills was on a three-hour lockdown this morning after police received reports of a man possibly with a gun near campus. The man in question turned out to be a stu...
View ArticleWalmart Guilty of Crimes Against Environment, Must Pay $110 Mil
Walmart has fewer friends in Los Angeles than the Tea Party. While local lefties usually decry the retail Godzilla for its non-union, low-paying ways, they have new reason to hate: An investiga...
View ArticleDisneyland Toontown Blast Was Scary Prank
See our latest here: A Disneyland insider has been arrested in connection with the blast. A minor blast inside a Disneyland trash can scared the bejesus out of tourists and locals alike and had...
View ArticleVagina Pat-Down at SoCal Airport Goes Viral (VIDEO)
If you hate the Transportation Security Administration and its ridiculous rules and searches en route to your favorite destination, it doesn't take much to shame its agents. Privacy proponent A...
View ArticleL.A. is a Top American City For Living Car-Free?
Los Angeles is America's City of Cars, the town built around four-wheeled transportation, the birthplace of custom-auto culture and couture. But what if our traffic were so bad that it actually...
View ArticleSwatting of Celebrities Like Justin Bieber Could Bring Jail Time Under Calif....
Swatting is the must-have accessory in Hollywood, more necessary than a reality show, porn tape or Third World baby. But one L.A. state assemblyman has been working hard to keep these victims -...
View ArticleInsider Arrested in Disney Toontown Blast
When it comes to crimes against the tourism industry, SoCal cops work fast. Anaheim police today announced an arrest in that scary blast yesterday inside the Mikey's Toontown section of Disneyla...
View ArticleFBI Can't Find Girl Enduring Ongoing Sex Abuse in SoCal
It's the kind of nightmare scenario you see on the big screen or television: A child somewhere in Southern California is being subjected to sexual abuse as we speak. That, at least, is what inve...
View ArticleDodger Stadium to Host -- Gasp! -- Soccer?
Walter O'Malley, who moved the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in time for the 1958 season, might be turning in his grave. He helped develop Dodger Stadium, and it was one of Major League ...
View ArticleMoms are Key Breadwinners in Record 40 Percent of American Families
Gone are the days of stay-at-home moms. Trending now is dads doing housework and changing diapers at home. Moms are the sole or primary source of income in a record 40 percent of all families...
View ArticleLAX Expansion Could Be Grounded by Union Lawsuit
LAX's runway expansion plans were already facing legal action by community groups and even neighboring governments (Culver City, for one). Now comes the Service Employees Union United Service Wo...
View ArticleMarijuana: America Will Never Turn Back to 'Just Say No'
The full legalization of marijuana might not be inevitable, like, say, the institutionalization of same-sex marriage, but we will never turn back to the days of public support for full-on crimin...
View ArticleL.A. Is Fat, Ranks Low Among America's Fittest Cities
L.A. is where all the fitness trends seem to start, from Tae Bo to P90X, from stripper pole workouts to marathon partying with Lindsay Lohan. Schwarzenegger started out at Gold's Gym in Venice, ...
View ArticleNot 1 But 2 Blasts at Disneyland, OC Prosecutors Say
There were not one but two blasts at Disneyland this week. So says the Orange County District Attorney's office in its prosecution of employee and suspect Christian Barnes, 22. The previously u...
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