After a long, frantic month of combing hundreds of caves throughout Anza-Borrego Desert State Park for any signs of missing UC San Diego graduate Guillermo Pino, Jr., 25, he was discovered dead last S...
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Hipster racism we can handle. But cuddly kitten racismr There is no god!
L.A. animal shelters went public with this disturbing trend (sometimes called Black Dog Syndrome) last year, revealing to Time...
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For months, rumors have been rippling through the Venice real-estate crowd that Google might be buying up the iconic Gold's Gym on Hampton Drive, and possibly the Digital Domain building next door.
A...
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George Shatford, a 61-year-old resident at the Pasadena Residential Care Center, was apparently strangled to death on Monday evening, just around dinnertime.
Pasadena Police Department spokeswoman Tr...
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Let's see. What's the most unpopular budget solution that L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa could possibly propose during his city's disastrous $238 million shortfallr
Aside from reinstate that evil fl...
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Awkward timing: Almost one week into a student hunger strike across the California State University system, in which 12 students are drinking only vegetable juice until CSU presidents lose their "hous...
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Updated at the bottom: Fisher requests a three-month leave of absence, saying he needs to focus on his "health and personal wellbeing." The board accepts, but local civil-rights leaders (and L.A. porn...
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Don't let the lovely "cupola" being built atop the Little White Chapel in Burbank fool you: T-Mobile plans to fill it with robot guts.
The Burbank City Planning Board just approved T-Mobile's wireles...
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We're tickled, of course, that CNN thinks "L.A. Is a Heavenly Place." We do, too!
But as so many L.A.-ophiles discovered upon actually reading the meat of the article, writer Jennifer Wolfe thinks of...
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The University of Southern California isn't just for strapping young scholars anymore. Today and tomorrow, the USC Price School of Public Policy begins an ongoing series of classes that will school cu...
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Back in February, after the world found out what Miramonte Elementary School teacher Mark Berndt had allegedly been feeding his blindfolded third-graders (hint: his semen), the Los Angeles Unified Sch...
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Ever since the LAPD started enforcing a strict curfew along the Venice boardwalk, the homeless hangout on 3rd street (located a few blocks inland) has blossomed into a bona fied bum party.
The stretc...
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They've been warning administrators since last Friday that they'd do it, and the moment of truth has arrived:
Four brave students from Cal State Northridge began their hunger strike against rising tu...
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Update: Headline has been changed to include the victim's name, Myron Chisem, as provided to the Associated Press by his "friend," Shawn Butler. The same friend tells KPCC that the suspected shooter "...
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There was always something remotely hip-hop about Sesame Street. Elmo, Big Bird, the Count, Oscar the Grouch -- especially Oscar the Grouch -- looked like they'd really seen some shit in their eterna...
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Update: "Skyy Fisher Will Not Be Fired From Compton School Board for Offensive Comments; He'll Have to Be Recalled by Voters."
Could the Compton Unified School District get any sleazierr
A concerned...
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Update: From the start, Civic Park has been more of an expensive tourist draw (and cement carpet) than a people's hangout. See LA Weekly print stories "Funny Math on Downtown L.A. Civic Park" and "Los...
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The classic conservative sneer about Occupy Wall Street (and its L.A. faction) is that the protester base is primarily white hipsters/hippies too lazy to get a job.
And a new survey out of Loyola Mar...
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Isaac Chavez, a supervisor at the L.A. Department of Water and Power, was arrested on April 25 in Van Nuys for drinking and driving on the job.
But unlike those other DWP deadbeats famously arrested ...
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And the mother of all conspiracy theories hits the rightblogosphere:
Fans of the late Andrew Breitbart are speculating as to why a forensic technician from the L.A. County Coroner's Office would sudd...
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The trial for Pedro Espinoza, illegal immigrant accused of murdering 17-year-old footballer Jamiel Shaw Jr. in March 2008, finally got underway today.
It's been highly politicized thus far -- delayed...
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With their powers combined, "cars and bikes, occupiers and unions, community orgs and organic communities" will be descending upon the downtown L.A. financial district from all sides this May Day.
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Like the "Teflon Sheriff" he is, Lee Baca has been doing his darndest to slip his good name off an inmate-stabbing lawsuit that names Baca as a defendant.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals turned him ...
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Update: "Katie Wilkins May Have Overdosed on Heroin With Chris Benton, Pepperdine President's Son."
A young graphic designer described by her father as "well-liked" was found dead in the garage of he...
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While we were talking to LA Weekly photographer Ted Soqui about his coverage of the L.A. Riots, he mentioned that he'd only recently realized how much riot footage was up on YouTube.
"I didn't get to...
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