Email Author Simone Wilson

Awards

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published December 16, 2010

  "Culture of Cruelty"

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2010 Stories by Simone Wilson

• How Did L.A.'s New Solar-Powered Parking Meters Rake In $230,000 For The Month Of September Aloner

  published Oct 15, 2010

  Embittered parking-enforcement officers all over Los Angeles are being outperformed by a steely army of 15,000 one-legged cash cows, KPCC radio reports. The new solar-powered parking meters accept cr... More >>

• Take That, SNL: The New, Improved Gloria Allred Represents Marginalized Families Of Murder Victims, Not B-List Whorebags

  published Oct 15, 2010

  Though she's best known for representing man-star libido victims such as Amber Frey (mistress of wife-killer Scott Peterson) and both Joslyn James and Rachel Uchitel (quenchers of Tiger Woods' infamou... More >>

• LAPD Officers Stumble Upon 21 Guns (Yeah, Like The Green Day Song, You Cheese) In Search Of Much Lesser Prize

  published Oct 15, 2010

  At a West Valley raid on Wednesday, part of the LAPD's optimistically titled "Operation New Horizons," officers stumbled upon a cache of ridiculously illegal weaponry to make the little gangsters in t... More >>

• Phillip Pelayo, L.A. Homicide No. 202: 31-Year-Old Man Stabbed By Older Brother, Who Then Flees For Mexico

  published Oct 14, 2010

  A 31-year-old Latino man was fatally stabbed by his 42-year-old brother around 4:15 p.m. on Sunday, October 10, police said. The two were arguing at their shared Hollywood apartment in the 1500 block ... More >>

• Augustine Calderon, L.A. Homicide No. 201: 23-Year-Old Man Gunned Down in South L.A.

  published Oct 14, 2010

  A Latino man fatally shot at 12:25 a.m. on Sunday, October 10, has been identified as 23-year-old Agustin Calderon. The shooting occurred at South Broadway and West 70th Street, according to LAPD's Ne... More >>

• Jade Rizo-Soto, L.A. Homicide No. 200: 41-Year-Old Woman Killed In Westlake

  published Oct 14, 2010

  Updated after the jump with details of Rizo-Soto's murder. First posted October 14 at 4:26 p.m. A Latina female who died from blunt force trauma on Monday, October 11, has been identified as Jade Riz... More >>

• Raul Vergara, L.A. Homicide No. 199: Man Shot Dead Near Exposition Park

  published Oct 14, 2010

  A Latino man fatally shot on Wednesday, September 29, has been identified as Raul Vergara. The shooting occurred near the corner of West Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard and South Hoover Street, accord... More >>

• James Davis, L.A. Homicide No. 198: 18-Year-Old Man Shot Down By Police In Watts

  published Oct 14, 2010

  A black man was fatally shot by LAPD officers just after 5 p.m. on Thursday, October 7, at 2048 East 114th Street in Watts. He has since been identified by the coroner as 18-year-old James Davis. Acc... More >>

• Perez Hilton, Los Angeles Unified School District Join Hands In The Good Fight Against Gay Bullying

  published Oct 14, 2010

  In an unlikely twist of solidarity, the Los Angeles Unified School District has arrived at a similar solution to a troubling spree of gay teen suicides as the true maestro of L.A. youth -- celebrity b... More >>

• 'Coach' Scarves From Counterfeit Capital Of The World Detained At Los Angeles Seaport By Homeland Security Heroes

  published Oct 14, 2010

  Well-dressed patriots rejoiced and broke consumer whores wept this morning, when a giant shipment of 24,000 "Coach" scarves from China was stopped in its tracks at the Los Angeles/Long Beach Seaport. ... More >>

• Compton School Board Votes To Fire Superintendent Kaye Burnside For Throwing Around The Company Card

  published Oct 14, 2010

  Compton Unified School District Superintendent Kaye Burnside was finally dropped from her five-month wait of shame Tuesday night, when the district board voted 4-2 for her permanent departure. Back i... More >>

• Westside Los Angeles Eateries Cat-Fight With Local Homes Association Over Precious Neighborhood Parking Spaces

  published Oct 13, 2010

  The current parking fiasco on West 3rd Street in Los Angeles, just east of Beverly Hills, might just out-drama tomorrow night's "Real Housewives" premiere. Ah, the problems of the rich and famous. Th... More >>

• Largest Fire In L.A. History Could Have Fizzled Sooner, If Not For Mystery Slacker

  published Oct 12, 2010

  More than a year after the Station Fire spread from Angeles National Forest to wipe out 89 homes and take the lives of two firefighters, the U.S. Forest Service still can't point to a culprit for its ... More >>

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  Rudy Martinez, Star Of "Flip This House," Drops $150,000 On Surprise Los Angeles City Council Campaign

  published Oct 12, 2010

  Updated after the jump: Competitor Jose Huizar one-ups Martinez. Originally posted at 1:52 p.m. Finally -- an L.A. City Council candidate who can rack up airline miles on his own credit card, instead... More >>