Antelope Valley

Upskirt Perv Victimized More Than 100 Women in Antelope Valley, Cops Say

It's upskirt season is Southern California. The sun comes out, and so do the pervs. Our latest suspect is Mylyn Corniche Johnson (yes, he shares his middle name with a Rolls- Royce model), a 29-year-old whom cops say was taking upskirt cellphone video at a Lancaster Target over the weekend. He was ... More >>

Lucky to Be Alive

A couple's devastating encounter with Lee Baca's COPS HIT deputies

We Attended the KCRW Pledge Drive - And Lived to Tell the Tale!

It's pledge drive time again at KCRW. twice a year, the station -- one of the pre-eminent public radio stations in the country -- interrupts regular programming to ask for money. But this isn't your typical "send us five bucks and we'll mail you a bumper sticker" pledge event. No no, this one has Co ... More >>

DUI Checkpoints Tonight, Tomorrow For L.A., West Hollywood, Long Beach

As a small warm-up for the massive DUI crackdown scheduled to harsh your mellow New Years Eve, police around the L.A. area are planning DUI checkpoints. Locations include West Hollywood, Long Beach and the San Gabriel Valley. Think of this as practice for Monday, the ultimate amateur night. We'll ... More >>

10 Best Ways to Get in Shape in L.A.

See also: *Our Best of L.A. issue and our Best of L.A. app *Top 10 Gyms in L.A. *Top 10 Bars With the Hottest Women in L.A. You see the flab. You want the flab gone. You want it gone now. There's no New Year's resolution. There's no wedding dress to fit into. It's just getting in shape time. Becau ... More >>

Heat Wave Comes to Southern California: 126 Degrees Expected in Death Valley

Updated at the bottom with Southern California Edison urging us to conserve energy. First posted at 7 a.m. The June gloom sticking to our coastline well into August had you down, and you were waiting for summer to finally arrive? Better late than never: The National Weather Service this week issu ... More >>

The Dirty Projectors' David Longstreth on Wearing a Haz-Mat Suit in the Largest Landfill in the Country

To listen to Swing Lo Magellan is to hear David Longstreth holding something back. Released on July 10 on Domino Records, Magellan is the seventh full-length album Longstreth has recorded as the Dirty Projectors, and the third since 2007's Rise Above, an idiosyncratic interpretation of a Black Fla ... More >>

Anthony Wayne Smith, Former Raider, Serial Killer?

Former Oakland Raiders defensive lineman Anthony Wayne Smith has been with charged with three unsolved murders, the LAPD announced today. That makes the number of killings he's accused of committing four: He's currently being retried in the 2008 homicide of Lancaster mechanic Maurilio Ponce. Doe ... More >>

Blacks, Latinos Faced Housing Discrimination in The Antelope Valley, But Not in Palmdale, City Says Proudly

​Discrimination is an ugly thing (says the guy who gets keys tossed at him at the valet stand), so it's important we don't accuse innocents. The city of Palmdale today announced that, in fact, that was the case when the California NAACP and The Community Action League brought a suit against i ... More >>

Palmdale Seeks Injunction Against California High Speed Rail Authority To Stop I-5 Study

​The city of Palmdale came out swinging on Tuesday, filing a motion in federal court that seeks a temporary injunction to keep the California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) from spending certain funds for a study of a rail line along Interstate 5. "Again we're asking why are we wasting ta ... More >>

'Phonehenge West' Builder Alan Kim Fahey, OG Desert Rat, Arrested After 30 Years of Ignoring L.A. County Building Codes

SavePhonehengeWest.orgFahey with his masterpiece​[Update: A friend of Fahey's named Cristina Warren tells us that his entire estate was raided today -- his entire extended family allegedly kicked out, their farm animals impounded (turkeys, dogs, cats, the works) and electricity cut off to Phon ... More >>

Gloria Allred Blasts Army For Losing Track of Palmdale's Daniel Brazelton, Accused of Raping 15-Year-Old in L.A. County

Daniel Brazelton.​The U.S. Army got the Gloria Allred treatment Monday after a suspect in its custody who was wanted for the L.A.-area rape of a 15-year-old Antelope Valley girl escaped before being captured over the weekend. The teenager, identified at a news conference as Jamie, was alleged ... More >>

L.A. Road Closures, Wednesday Edition: Where Not To Drive

PHOTO BY TED SOQUI​I punish thee with hella traffic​Updated after the jump: The beginning of the end FLASH FOOD warnings until 6 p.m. (this includes downtown L.A.). Constantly updated with traffic conditions, evacuations and the best in emergency rescues. Originally posted at 8:30 a.m. ... More >>

Across the Great Divide

Via small-form films

Jeff Gorell Wins* California State Assembly District 37 In Election 2010, Beating His Manly Chest To The Tune Of Opponent Ferial Masry's Bitter Tears

​We're calling it: Jeff Gorell (R) of Ventura is your next representative for California State Assembly District 37. He beat opponent Ferial Masry (D) by a landslide. *OK, so we fibbed in the headline. The final results aren't in and the polls haven't closed. But thanks to sleazy incumbent f ... More >>

Cameron Smyth Wins* California State Assembly District 38 In Election 2010, His Triumphant Warcry Shattering The Very Soul Of Opponent Diana Shaw

​We're calling it: Cameron Smith (R) of Santa Clarita is your next representative for California State Assembly District 38. He beat opponent Diana Shaw (D) by a landslide. *OK, so we fibbed in the headline. The final results aren't in and the polls haven't closed. But thanks to sleazy incum ... More >>

Reyna Chicas, Leader Of 'Cult-Like' Group, Under Psychiatric Evaluation After Fears Of Mass Suicide Pact Prove False

​Updated after the jump with children of group leader being put in protective custody. It was a weird weekend in Palmdale, where authorities were on the lookout for a breakaway Christian church group that was feared to have undertaken a suicide pact. When the 13 people were found at a local p ... More >>

It's Gettin' Hot In Herre, Los Angeles

jamie h via Flickr​June gloom overstayed its welcome, but it's going out with a bang: A heatwave is expected to hit the Los Angeles basin Wednesday and last until at least the weekend, according to the National Weather Service. "The unusually cool beginning in July will come to an abrupt end l ... More >>

Did Feds Cause the Station-fire Disaster

Ugly allegations that fire officials reduced air support, tankers and backup crews

Is L.A. Unfairly Taxing Unincorporated-Area Businesses?

As the financial crisis tightens its grip on California, the pressure to squeeze out more local revenue is causing rifts between the city and county governments -- and the results are not pretty. Last week the County Board of Supervisors unanimously supported a letter proposed by Supervisor Gloria M ... More >>

Northrop Grumman-U.S. Agreements: Cause and Effect?

Nuclear aircraft carrier T. Roosevelt​Call it robbing the Pentagon to pay Paul. Wednesday  defense-contracting giant Northrop Grumman announced it had won two bids with the Army and Navy worth nearly $6 billion -- then Thursday the Environmental Protection Agency said it had reached a settlem ... More >>

No Days of the Condor: Will Tejon Ranch Doom the Birds?

The Tejon Ranch is 270,000 acres of golden grassland and brooding oaks that were once part of an Army Fort before falling into the hands of the L.A. Times' Chandler family a century ago. For decades the land, which stretches from the Antelope Valley to the Tehachapis, has glowed pristinely on either ... More >>

"High Desert Rapist" from Los Angeles gunned down in Ohio -- Grim but not the Grim Sleeper

Updating our blog from yesterday, a team of FBI and Columbus, Ohio cops gunned down the alleged Los Angeles serial rapist who cops here had dubbed the "High Desert Rapist." It all went down in a bizarre series of events after he was released from Los Angeles County jail on a huge bond -- $3.4 millio ... More >>

Boyz II Men: A Philadelphia Story

The only thing these guys didn't do was cater

Pedro Guzman's Return

Wrongly deported to Mexico, a developmentally disabled man is found safe

Peddling Smart Growth

Call your project “smart” — even when it isn't — and get millions in public funds.

The Cardboard Scalawag's Guide to Pirate's Cove

Best nudie masquerade

Prospecting for Beauty

Treasure map to the best park bench in Southern California

Everything Counts in Large Amounts

11 secrets of swarm success

Everything Counts in Large Amounts

11 secrets of swarm success

Almost Green

Nature talks, an exile listens

Fight of the Condors

Can the giant birds survive Tejon Ranch development?

B as in Betrayal

Loss of King-Drew trauma unit upsets residents who voted for Measure B

Mean Genes

Werewolves of Hollywood

Edited by Kateri Butler

Letters

Birth of a Notion

High Desert Test Sites realizes Andrea Zittel’s dream of an explorable, alternative art space

Legends Looking for L.A.’s Bigfoot

Life of Busboy

Sickness and Subways

Time to treat the county's health disaster as a national issue

To Live and Skate in L.A.

Tweakers in The Salton Sea and the wild boys of Dogtown

Report From the Holiday Front

Animal Nature

Can Marcia Mayeda save county animal control?

Commence

Mayor of Mayors?

The newest county-government reform could benefit a political old-timer

Letters

Sugar 'N' Spikes

Captain Beefheart: The Mirror Man as mere man

The Arroyo Special

The Blue Line is a damned good idea — that costs too damned much

Taste Globally, Picnic Locally

The Eleventh Plague

Torrent of shit threatens Lancaster