Email Author Simone Wilson

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

  "Culture of Cruelty"

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2012 Stories by Simone Wilson

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  Oscar Duncan Murder in Venice Sees 2 Arrests: Kevin Dwayne Green and Hopeton Bereford Parsley

  published Jun 12, 2012

  [Update: Gang member Kevin Dwayne Green, 28, will be arraigned later today at the LAX courthouse, according to the D.A. He's charged with Oscar Duncan's June 4 murder (with gang enhancement), along wi... More >>

• Pair of Lungs Found Discarded on L.A. Sidewalk; Homicide Detectives Investigating

  published Jun 12, 2012

  Update: A coroner's official tells the L.A. Times the lungs were from an animal. First posted at 8:30 a.m. Monday. Another possible chapter in the 2012 Zombie Apocalypser A pair of lungs was discove... More >>

• East Valley High Teacher Reportedly Mistakes Sulfuric Acid for Nitric Acid; Chaos Ensues

  published Jun 11, 2012

  The entirety of East Valley High School in North Hollywood was evacuated this afternoon when a science teacher reportedly got her chemicals confused. According to Brian Humphrey at the L.A. City Fire... More >>

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  Catharine Whelpley, Northridge Mom, Allegedly Aided Girls in Anti-Semitic Poop-Smearing Spree

  published Jun 11, 2012

  Remember the Northridge "Mean Girls" who allegedly scrawled swastikas on their classmates' front walkways and smeared poop on their cars in Aprilr Well, according to the L.A. city attorney, they had ... More >>

• Roberto Garcia, Glendora Palm-Tree Trimmer, Suffocates to Death in Freak Frond Accident

  published Jun 11, 2012

  A 35-year-old tree-trimmer named Roberto Garcia was about 40 feet up a palm tree in Glendora on Saturday when tragedy struck: A ring of dead fronds, which he had been trying to sever from the trunk, ... More >>

• Fire at BeauRivage: Malibu Restaurant Goes Up in Flames, Shuts Down PCH

  published Jun 11, 2012

  Update, 8:45 a.m.: The fire has been extinguished, but firefighters remain on scene to douse "hot spots." And to help ease the traffic nightmare, one eastbound and one westbound lane have been opened ... More >>

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  Marijuana Dispensary Ban Passed by L.A. Committee: Only One Vote Left Before Pot Shops Wiped Out

  published Jun 08, 2012

  Update, June 21: Word is that the L.A. City Council will postpone tomorrow's vote -- an apparent ploy to wear down the opposition. You've heard it before: The L.A. City Council is trying to ban all m... More >>

• Jose Lucero, 22-Year-Old Stagehand for MTV Movie Awards, Dies in Scaffolding Fall at Universal CityWalk

  published Jun 08, 2012

  Updated at the bottom: Cal/OSHA confirms that Lucero was taking down the MTV Movie Awards set, and says he may not have been wearing fall protection. Originally posted at 1:05 p.m. A young man who s... More >>

• Confirmed: Lindsay Lohan Is a Really Shitty Driver

  published Jun 08, 2012

  Lindsay Lohan was reportedly involved in another car crash around noon today. According to TMZ, who is ON IT, the recovering party girl smashed her black Porsche into the back of a semi while heading ... More >>

• Huntington Park Has the Fattest Kids in California; Manhattan Beach Has the Skinniest

  published Jun 08, 2012

  As we're sure you've heard, childhood obesity levels are not doing so good in America. Though they've leveled off overall, our lowest-income cities are still stuffing over 50 percent of their young wi... More >>

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  DesertXpress: High-Speed Train Will Run From Vegas to Palmdale, Serve Booze

  published Jun 08, 2012

  A high-speed rail from SoCal to Vegas is every party girl and businessman's dream, obviously. But up until now, DesertXpress Enterprises' proposed route, nicknamed the "bridge to nowhere," has been l... More >>

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  Vanessa Tsakrios, 24-Year-Old Substitute Teacher in Oxnard, Allegedly Sexted 17-Year-Old Student

  published Jun 08, 2012

  Another teenage boy's wet dream in Oxnard! Right when students might finally be coming down from the vision of Haydock Intermediate School teacher/porn star Stacie Halas getting railed on the Internet... More >>

• UC Engineers Want to Base Military Armor on Three-Layer Supershell of Mantis Shrimp

  published Jun 07, 2012

  UC Riverside just got 20 times more impressive. Engineers at the oft-overlooked UC campus are reportedly thinking up a new type of body armor that would be one-third the weight and capable of deflect... More >>

• Kenny Flye, Alleged Weed Hookup for Hella Glendale High Schoolers, Busted by Drug Cops

  published Jun 07, 2012

  Sorry, young stoners of west Glendale and beyond: The cops just jailed your (alleged) hookup. Kenneth Flye, a 20-year-old Glendale resident who used to live in Burbank, was arrested on Tuesday night ... More >>

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  HipSwap, Craigslist for Rich L.A. Hipsters, Will Deliver Your Used Louboutins in Pink Van With Mustache

  published Jun 07, 2012

  No, that is not the tour bus for Echo Park's ironic new K-pop girl band. Somehow, it's even more perfect than that. The pink van driving around L.A. with the groovy font and the mustache -- as of thi... More >>

• AD 39: Alarcon Is Trailing Bocanegra Because He's Lost Touch With 'Comadre Network' in Northeast Valley, Says Political Consultant

  published Jun 06, 2012

  Richard Alarcon is in trouble. After easily winning various elections in the San Fernando Valley area over the last 20 years -- hopping from the L.A. City Council to the State Senate to the State Ass... More >>

• LAPD Bracing for L.A. Kings Riot at Staples Center Tonight

  published Jun 06, 2012

  Update: The Kings lost to the Devils 3-1 -- making this a sad night for L.A., but a lucky break for the LAPD. Their only concern now is making sure ecstatic New Jersey fans can get out of the Staples ... More >>

• Paul Porter Allegedly Stabs Simi Valley Teacher Janice Somple to Death -- Then Dies From Heart Attack During Getaway

  published Jun 06, 2012

  The brutal murder of retired high-school teacher Janice Somple last Thursday was only the second murder in quiet, suburban Simi Valley over the last two years -- but it was also one of SoCal's strange... More >>

• L.A. City Council Bans Camping in Public Parks; Occupy Declares It a War on Civil Rights

  published Jun 06, 2012

  Local politicians keep insisting that their new ban on camping in city parks was not in reaction to Occupy L.A. That's insanely hard to believe, considering they're smack-dab in the middle of a makeo... More >>

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  Torture in L.A. Burbs Looks Like La Eme

  published June 7, 2012

  For five sunny days in May, in a blue garage 10 houses down from a popular preschool on Pico Rivera's clean, middle-class Clarinda Avenue,... More >>

• Prop. 28 Passes With Flying Colors: How California Legislators Tricked Voters Into Extending Their Term Limits

  published Jun 06, 2012

  Update: Philip Blumel with the group U.S. Term Limits tells us Prop. 28 was "the most deceptive referendum that I've ever seen." More at the bottom. Like Big Oil-backed Prop. 26 in the 2010 election,... More >>

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  Paper-Mache Surfer Rides Los Angeles River -- Part of Ongoing Street-Art Project Downtown

  published Jun 06, 2012

  A street-art duo consisting of New York transplant Calder Greenwood and an anonymous accomplice have been leaving little paper-mache presents all over downtown L.A. They started with the now-famous s... More >>

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  Assembly District 39 Election Results: Richard Alarcon Humiliated by Early Triumph for CSU Professor Raul Bocanegra

  published Jun 06, 2012

  Update: At final count, Bocanegra raked in 9,201 votes and Alarcon only 6,818. Update: As of 1:15 a.m., with 73 percent of precincts reporting, Bocanegra holds his lead even more firmly than before. ... More >>

• Did Malibu Lagoon Activists Issue Death Threat to L.A. County Workerr

  published Jun 05, 2012

  The unshakeable activists who've been fighting the Malibu Lagoon "restoration" project since it was proposed 20 years ago have always been passionate. But have some waxed a bit overzealousr LA Observ... More >>

• LAX Evacuated, Flights Delayed Over 'Suspicious' Microphone in Suitcase

  published Jun 05, 2012

  No, funny people of Twitter, the suspicious package that shut down Terminal 6 at LAX this morning was not the Stanley Cup. But the item that did rouse the suspicion of luggage inspectors just after 7... More >>