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The Informer
3:59 pm
Apr. 5, 2013
Los Angeles News
Republicans Head To Los Angeles For Spring Meeting, Face Culture Shock The Republicans are coming to Los Angeles next week. They must be from out of town because they'll be the only red dogs around these parts. Which makes us wonder: Why the hell did they chose L.A... More >>
The Informer
2:18 pm
Apr. 5, 2013
Los Angeles News
Alleged Northridge Kidnapper Tobias Summers Crossed Into Mexico; Search Is On There Tobias Summers, the man wanted for the shocking abduction of a 10-year-old Northrdige girl, was seen crossing the border into Mexico, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck told reporters today. The search has... More >>
The Informer
12:13 pm
Apr. 5, 2013
Los Angeles News
Two New Polls Show Dead Heat In Mayor's Race; But Are They Believable? Today we have two new polls in the L.A. mayor's race, and both show Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel in a statistical dead heat.The Garcetti campaign dismissed the numbers, while the Greuel campaig... More >>
The Informer
10:08 am
Apr. 5, 2013
Los Angeles News
Los Angeles Traffic Sucks The Worst (Again) From the Department of Tell Us Something We Don't Already Know we bring you Tom Tom's latest "congestion index" data. This particular breaking news involves the GPS company's round-up of North A... More >>
The Informer
9:08 am
Apr. 5, 2013
Los Angeles News
Korean Sex Workers Exploited In L.A.; 'Madam' Eun Suk Sun Faces Charges In Korea So get this: Eun Suk Sun allegedly ran a house (or, rather, apartment) of prostitution right here in L.A.'s Koreatown. But it isn't American authorities who want to take her down for it. Nope, i... More >>
The Informer
8:05 am
Apr. 5, 2013
Los Angeles News
Weekend DUI Checkpoints Start Tonight In Hollywood, Silver Lake April showers bring May flowers. Sure. But an April DUI will only bring you misery for months and years to come. The AAA of Southern California now estimates that the cost of a DUI conviction is ... More >>
The Informer
7:03 am
Apr. 5, 2013
Los Angeles News
Christopher Dorner Video Sought By San Bernardino Authorities The manhunt for Christopher Dorner was arguably the most expansive in Southern California history, involving thousands of law enforcers and even hundreds of journalists and citizen bloggers who d... More >>
The Informer
1:27 pm
Apr. 4, 2013
Los Angeles News
5 Takeaways from the Dodgers' Season-Opening Series That was just so Dodgers. From the pomp, circumstance and exhilaration of Opening Day to the shoulder dropping, ground ball dropping of back-to-back losses to the rival San Francisco Giants. H... More >>
The Informer
1:21 pm
Apr. 4, 2013
Los Angeles News
Roger Ebert, Hollywood's Most Famous Film Critic, Dead at 70 Roger Ebert, the nation's highest-profile movie critic, is dead at age 70, his longtime employer, the Chicago Sun-Times, announced this afternoon. He died today in his hometown of Chicago follow... More >>
The Informer
12:58 pm
Apr. 4, 2013
Los Angeles News
Marijuana: For the First Time, a Majority of Americans Say Legalize It For the first time in four decades, a majority of Americans say legalize it. That's according to the latest Pew Research Center poll, which says 52 percent of us favor making marijuana legit. Th... More >>
The Informer
12:01 pm
Apr. 4, 2013
Los Angeles News
New Eric Garcetti Super PAC May Not Be So Super: Committee Has Modest Fundraising Goals A new super PAC has formed to support Eric Garcetti in the May 21 mayoral runoff. The Committee for a Safer Los Angeles filed paperwork this week to start raising money.The committee is being org... More >>
The Informer
9:03 am
Apr. 4, 2013
Los Angeles News
Dogs & Cats Won't Have to Be Left Home Alone at L.A. Shelters Under New Proposal Labor and animal rights activists joined hands to fight a proposal that would leave cats and dogs home alone overnight at L.A. city shelters. The proposal to end overnight supervision by animal ... More >>
The Informer
8:07 am
Apr. 4, 2013
Los Angeles News
'Illegal Immigrant' Could Be on the Chopping Block at Los Angeles Times, Too This week the Associated Press declared it would no longer use the term "illegal immigrant." It was big news in journalism, because the AP Stylebook's usage guidelines are the ones followed by m... More >>
The Informer
7:04 am
Apr. 4, 2013
Los Angeles News
LAPD Warns Real Estate Agents to Lock Up Vacant Homes in Wake of Northridge Abduction We know who the suspects are in the horrific abduction of a Northridge 10-year-old last week. But one accomplice has gone unnamed: an empty home somewhere in the West Valley where atrocities aga... More >>
News
12:00 am
Apr. 4, 2013
Los Angeles News
A Gay Leader Emerges in the 'Hood Asked if being poor, black and gay hurt him at the start of his career, author James Baldwin famously replied that his situation "was so... More >>
Letters
12:00 am
Apr. 4, 2013
Los Angeles News
Baseball Economics and Hit-and-Run Horrors: Readers Respond The Business of Baseball Who's paying for Major League baseball? Increasingly, as Pete Kotz reported in our March 29 issue, it's cable... More >>
The Informer
4:12 pm
Apr. 3, 2013
Los Angeles News
Tobias Summers, Alleged Northridge Kidnapper, Faces 3 Dozen Sex-Crime Counts Updated at the bottom with horrific details. Warning: Not for the faint of heart. First posted at 3:19 p.m. Tobias Summers, the at-large gang member wanted for the shocking abduction of a Northr... More >>
The Informer
3:46 pm
Apr. 3, 2013
Los Angeles News
Diddy's Toluca Lake Home Gets Swatted See also: Diddy's Son Justin Combs Gets Full Scholarship to UCLA as Many Students Struggle. The swatting phenomenon hit the home of one Sean "P. Diddy" Combs today. Police told the Weekly an a... More >>
The Informer
1:18 pm
Apr. 3, 2013
Los Angeles News
Feds Back Off Controversial Threat To Deport Barking Dog Owner Ruth Montano There are some bad immigrants out there, from ecstasy dealers to robbers to murderers, and deporting them is probably the least we could do. But being booted out of the country for barking dogs?... More >>
The Informer
12:27 pm
Apr. 3, 2013
Los Angeles News
Brian Banks, Jailed On False Rape Charge, Sees Dream Come True As Atlanta Falcons Sign Him Brian Banks, the former Long Beach high school football prodigy falsely accused of raping a classmate, today got a second chance at his NFL dreams. After spending nearly a decade fighting the ch... More >>
The Informer
9:01 am
Apr. 3, 2013
Los Angeles News
Police Car Replica Stolen In Norwalk Weeks After L.A. Gang Reportedly Wanted One This is kind of scary. The L.A. Sheriff's Department this week says a car set up to look just like an official police cruiser was stolen from a cop equipment store in Norwalk. This following a r... More >>
The Informer
8:03 am
Apr. 3, 2013
Los Angeles News
John Clarke Gable, Film Legend's Son, Arrested In Alleged DUI Destruction In Malibu One way to get cops' attention is crash into six parked cars. In Malibu. Yeah, that's what deputies say John Clarke Gable, the 52-year-old son of Hollywood legend Clark Gable (1901-1960), did ye... More >>

From the Print Edition

A Gay Leader Emerges in the 'Hood A Gay Leader Emerges in the 'Hood

Asked if being poor, black and gay hurt him at the start of his career, author James Baldwin famously replied that his situation "was so outrageous ... you had to… More >>

Baseball Economics and Hit-and-Run Horrors: Readers Respond

The Business of Baseball Who's paying for Major League baseball? Increasingly, as Pete Kotz reported in our March 29 issue, it's cable subscribers, forced to pay fat premiums even as fewer… More >>

How the Dodgers' New TV Contract Exemplifies Major League Baseball's Problems How the Dodgers' New TV Contract Exemplifies Major League Baseball's Problems

Police in riot gear guard the dugouts, preparing for the worst, with German shepherds at heel. This is Philadelphia in 1980, after all. It's the bottom of the ninth. Two strikes.… More >>

Hit-and-Run Blowback on LAPD Hit-and-Run Blowback on LAPD

The hit-and-run driver of the minivan that struck bicyclist Damian Kevitt one morning near Griffith Park must have felt and heard the impact. He probably saw Kevitt caught on his… More >>

Who's to Blame? Readers Contemplate a Deadly Fire and Wells Fargo's Typo Who's to Blame? Readers Contemplate a Deadly Fire and Wells Fargo's Typo

Death of a Firefighter As Gene Maddaus reported last week, when faulty construction led to a fire that claimed the life of a 36-year LAFD veteran, architect Gerard Becker was charged… More >>

Architect Gerhard Becker Faces Manslaughter Charges After a Firefighter Died Trying to Save His Home Architect Gerhard Becker Faces Manslaughter Charges After a Firefighter Died Trying to Save His Home

Edward Watters could smell the fire before he saw it. It was after 11 p.m. as Watters maneuvered his engine up Sunset Plaza Drive, a narrow, twisting road that leads… More >>

Rich Kids and Wizards: Readers Weigh in on Steve Aoki and James Franco

Steve the Showman How did Steve Aoki become the biggest thing in EDM? In last week's cover story, Dennis Romero cited, among other things, the tricks of Benihana, the marketing skills… More >>

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