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The West Hollywood City Council is masterful at getting attention for making needless laws, from its cat-declawing ban to a prohibition on Circus animals (in a town that rarely if ever sees the circus come through).
See also: West Hollywood Bans Cir...
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Two Culver City officers opened fire on a man who confronted them ... right at their own police station.
That's the story from the L.A. County Sheriff's Department over the weekend: The suspect was fatally shot after pulling a gun on the cops in the...
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Surely there was a better process?
Did Mayor Eric Garcetti have only three files from which he chose his city commissioners, who wield influence over whether to fire bad cops, expand LAX into Westchester, push from outside for shakeups at failing ...
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It probably wasn't the classiest move when Dodgers players decided to take a dip in the Arizona Diamondbacks' home field pool after beating the Phoenix team to take the National League West title yesterday.
See also: Dodgers Finally Run it up the Fl...
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A group that tried to ban gay marriage in California is at it again. The National Organization for Marriage said today it is joining an effort to gather signatures in an attempt to put a repeal of the state's transgender equality law on the November...
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Southern California is such a wondrously diverse place that we have rave riots, surfer riots and yes, iPhone riots.
Well, perhaps "riot" is a stretch. You can call it a disturbance, a ruckus or even beef. In fact, cops say two separate incidences of...
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Our hit-and-run epidemic is well known in South Los Angeles, the East Valley and Koreatown. But the far Westside often seems to have been spared from this fatal scourge. Not this time.
See also: Chief Beck's Hit-and-Run Crisis.
Cops say a 33-year-o...
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We can think of better places than Craigslist to score drugs, especially in this age of the down-the-street medical marijuana dispensary.
But the stuff they sell on CL isn't green. It isn't even really a street drug. For the most part it appears to ...
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An early morning murder inside an Encino home shocked an upscale neighborhood where hardcore crime is rare.
The victim was said to be a religious man of about 80 years whom neighbors identified to reporters at the scene as Harvey Cohen. According to...
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After his first summer in office, it has become clear that Eric Garcetti is a different kind of municipal leader.
He actually uses Twitter (and, guys, KPCC is on it). He once tried out Google Glass (and wisely refused to be photographed while wearin...
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Baseball is a game of numbers. Let's start with these, shall we: 1974, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1988, 1995, 2008 and 2009, the numbers corresponding to years A.D. in which the Los Angeles Dodgers have been crowned champions of the National Leagu...
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The area around LAX is so developed that one neighborhood, Surfridge, has even come and gone.
But that didn't stop a Cal State Fullerton geological sciences professor from discovering a whole new species of lizard there. The pencil-like, 8- to 10-in...
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Updated at the bottom: The mayor weighs in. The city Department of Transportation says it will start regulating the rides.
The state of California today gave the formal green light to ride-share apps that compete with taxi services. This after a key...
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If you grew up today and did some of the things you did in high school, you'd be in jail.
Sneaking onto school grounds on the weekend? Toilet papering the quad? Scratching your name into your locker? Giving the local nerd a wedgie? Yeah. The crimina...
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Despite its reputation as something of a downer -- the slacker's drug, if you will -- marijuana can really screw with your sleep patterns and keep you up at night. Maybe.
Sort of sounds like that other drug, cocaine. But California researchers say i...
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Nowadays doctors can suck all kinds of stuff out of you -- fat, tumors, your last dollar.
But a 2-foot blood clot. Ew. (See the gross photo below.) The use of an AngioVac to pull the clot out of Todd Dunlap's body at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Cente...
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A motion to dismiss corruption charges against rave promoter Pasquale Rotella is being considered this week by the judge in the case.
See also: How Pasquale Rotella Built His Rave Empire.
A hearing on the dismissal request took place today. The jud...
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A group called Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which claims L.A.'s Eric Garcetti and several other Southern California municipal leaders as members, today said that buying and selling guns online represents a huge loophole in the government's attempt to...
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Even as the porn industry says an HIV-related production shut-down was scheduled to end Friday, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation today said it has confirmed that a fourth performer has come up HIV-positive.
See also: Porn's Latest HIV-Related Producti...
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Update: The LAPD today said only that "Choi has returned home to her family." First posted at 8:06 a.m. Tuesday. Headline has changed.
Cops this week were searching for a missing Koreatown teenager.
Though there was no apparent evidence of foul pla...
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