Wilmington

Gas Prices Could Reach All-Time High in L.A. as Some Stations Expected to Shut Down

Southern California is an island of gas-price hell this week. One station in Calabasas is charging nearly $6 ($5.89 to be exact) a gallon for high-octane fuel, the Costco in Simi Valley has run out of regular-grade gas (with other stations expected to follow suit), and one expert tells us that all-t ... More >>

Made in L.A. 2012: Slanguage

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Mold-Immune Bread

Summer is group show season, which means lots of loosely thematic gallery exhibitions have just opened and will open soon. Some of them aren't bad. 5. The history of the earth The same year Robert Smithson made his 1,500-foot Spiral Jetty, a pile of mud, salt crystal and rock that spiraled out from ... More >>

Black Riders Liberation Party's General TACO Visited by Authorities After May Day Rally

Members of the Black Riders Liberation Party, self-described as the Black Panthers for the modern era, say their Watts headquarters was raided by authorities today in retaliation for the group's participation in Tuesday's raucous May Day rallies in L.A. A spokesman for the state parole agency says ... More >>

St. Patrick's Day Drunk Patrols, Checkpoints in Full Effect in L.A. Starting Tonight

As if we need another beer holiday St. Patrick's Day, the drunkest of such occasions, is upon us. And, of course, your friendly, neighborhood police officer is fully ready to haul you into jail. On top of that, St. Patrick's Day this year falls on a Saturday (this Saturday), which should fuel the a ... More >>

Meldrick Melgoza and Carolina Ramirez, Teen Couple, Shot Dead in Wilmington

Last night during the Oscars, an unknown suspect walked up to 16-year-old couple Meldrick Melgoza and Carolina Ramirez and shot them dead, according to City News Service. The couple, whose friends call them "Steam" and "Pinky" (respectively) on Twitter, were near the intersection of F Street and Ba ... More >>

Facebook Stokes Rumors of Serial Killer on The Loose in L.A. Harbor Area Following Cristian Alvarez's Murder: Cops Say it Ain't so

Edmond Yeo​There's a phantom serial killer on the loose in the L.A. Harbor area. He's so stealthy, in fact, that he doesn't actually exist. It is true that the body of 28-year-old mother Cristian Alvarez was found Jan. 2 in Wilmington. Then the Facebook page Life in Wilmington stoked rumors t ... More >>

Burritos at Isaac's Cafe: Or, Give Me The Kind Jones Gets

ProfessorSalt.comCarne asada burrito at Isaac's Cafe​Stop by Isaac's Cafe on any given morning, and you'll end up sharing breakfast burritos with the stevedores that work the nearby docks of Wilmington and San Pedro. And those burritos? Some of the best in L.A. Despite an unlikely industrial ... More >>

Joe Buscaino, Dark Horse

200,000 reasons why a cop is L.A. City Council District 15's sleeper candidate

Teenagers Shot After Summer Night Lights Anti-Gang Program That Villaraigosa Planned to Show Off to U.S. Conference of Mayors Tonight

YouTubeSummer Night Lights.​Two teenagers were shot in Wilmington following a Summer Night Lights event, a program that is a cornerstone of L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's anti-gang efforts. In fact, Villaraigosa is the newly elected head of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, and he planned to ... More >>

Lacrecia Hill: Young Woman's Body Found Among Refuse at Wilmington Trash-Sorting Facility

​Update: KTLA News ID's the woman as 24-year-old Lacrecia Hill of Long Beach and says she was last seen May 15. The body of a woman in her 20s was found in a trash-sorting facility in Wilmington over the weekend, Los Angeles police said Monday. Problem is, the trash that comes into the locat ... More >>

Jesse Marquez: Thorn of Industry

DUI Checkpoint In Los Angeles: Welcome To The Weekend

firemonkeyfishThese guys in your rearview.​Ah, it wouldn't be a gloriously sunny winter weekend in SoCal without drunkards behind the wheel and the good cops who bust 'em. Thanks to the LAPD, which thinks that letting you know in advance about checkpoints can reduce driving under the influenc ... More >>

Be Thankful For This Guide To LAPD Holiday DUI Checkpoints

Dystopos​So you have a lot of things to be thankful for? A job, maybe? The fact that pot is still at least halfway legal in California? A mild winter that will probably see some nice beach days (we know, it's been crappy lately). Be thankful your ass isn't in an LAPD drunk tank, too. Just to ... More >>

LAPD Plans To Frighten You Over The Weekend With DUI Checkpoints, Patrols In Hollywood And Beyond

halloweencostumes4u.comYou wish.​If one of the spookiest things you'll ever see on Halloween is a black-and-white patrol car in your rear view, than you know you should probably take a cab home from your fright-night festivities. Because the LAPD will be on big time party-blocker patrol this ... More >>

Greens Vs. Big Oil and Prop. 23

To save California's global-warming law, a 23-year-old finds his rage — and 60,000 friends

Sweeps in Los Angeles Suburbs Create Fear, say Anti-Police Brutality Activists

San Gabriel Valley TribuneWilmington raids net 41 suspects​ Probation violators received some unexpected guests on Thursday after county probation officers, along with state and federal agents, descended upon multiple locations throughout Covina, Glendale, Monrovia, Pasadena and San Gabriel, ... More >>

Brandon Lincoln, L.A. Homicide No. 180: Jewelry store owner shoots armed robbers in Wilmington

​A suspect who was fatally shot by a Wilmington jewelry store owner in a robbery gone awry August 18 has been identified as 20-year-old Brandon Lincoln. The store owner also shot another robbery suspect. A third suspect was arrested and a fourth remained at large. The botched robbery attempt o ... More >>

L.A. Firefighters Battle 32-Hour Blaze

Pick Your Part​While you were enjoying the warm weekend barbecuing, hanging out at the beach and watching the Lakers, 250 firefighters were busy battling one of the more stubborn blazes in memory: A junkyard fire in Wilmington lasted 32 hours, 10 minutes. Shortly before 8 on Sunday night a Los ... More >>

Guillermo Huitron, L.A. Homicide No. 128: Man Found Fatally Shot in a Yard in Wilmington

A 22-year-old man who was fatally shot in a yard in Wilmington June 5 has been identified as Guillermo Huitron. Huitron was found dead about 11 p.m. Friday in the 1200 block of West D Street, near Mar Vista Avenue. He had been shot twice in the chest.

Brandon Hanson, L.A. Homicide No. 110: 34-year-old Man Fatally Shot at Wilmington Bar

A man who was fatally shot at a bar in Wilmington May 18 has been identified as 34-year-old Brandon Hanson. View Larger Map The shooting occurred about 10:40 p.m. Monday at the Foc'sle Bar at 400 N. Avalon Boulevard.

L.A. Buys $200,000 Worth Of Guns

​Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced over the weekend that a gun-buyback program netted more than 2,500 firearms, beating last year's effort by 800 weapons. The program paid out nearly $200,000 in Visa pre-paid cards and Ralph's gift cards for the weapons; $100 worth of plastic w ... More >>

Ask Mr Gold: Stuck in the Middle With You

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: I should probably be sent to therapy for attempting this in the first place, but I'm going on a first date with someone from Orange County. Since I pack a passport when I have to go east of the 405, obviously there is no way ... More >>

L.A. Council Rejects Home Buffer Zone For Pot Shops

​Considering its long-awaited ordinance to get a grip on 545 largely unregulated medical marijuana retailers in L.A., the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday rejected a proposed 500 foot buffer zone between the shops and homes and instead drafted language that would prohibit the businesses f ... More >>

Long Beach's Bubblin' Crude Could Be Worth $280 Million To City

​An oil field beneath Long Beach could be worth $280 million to the city over the next 10 years. It's almost as if Jed Clampett himself shot a hole in the ground near the city's port, in an area know as the Wilmington Oil Field. The projections were reported over the weekend in the Long Beach ... More >>

Murder Was the Case: L.A. Homicide No.'s 294, 295, Victims Identified in Wilmington Fatal Shooting

The two men who were fatally shot in a truck in Wilmington have been identified as 26-year-old Daniel Alejandre and 29-year-old Humberto Ramirez. View Larger Map According to police, the shooter was a passenger in the rear seat of the truck when he shot the driver Ramirez and the front seat-pass ... More >>

Murder was the Case: LA Homicide No. 252, Man Shot to Death In Wilmington

The Los Angeles Police Department is asking for the public's help in tracking down the shooter who killed a 41-year-old man delivering food to his girlfriend in Wilmington October 25. View Larger Map Jose Augusto Caceros, 41, was dropping off some food at his girlfriend's home in the 400 block of ... More >>

Strip Mall Rat: Where to Get Awesome Pupusas

photo credit Matt Armendariz​For better or worse, we are a car culture; it's an inescapable fact, thanks to the geography of Southern California. One of the consequences of living in a car-laden part of America are strip malls, those nondescript and remarkably plain parking lots that house con ... More >>

Longshore Workers Remember Fallen

Seventy-five years ago Friday, longshoremen Richard Parker and John Knudsen were shot dead by private guards during a port-worker strike that had shut down L.A.'s harbor. They would soon be followed by four other men -- two of whose deaths in San Francisco ignited that city's historic general strike ... More >>

"Multicultural Man" Missing No More

Curbed L.A. has located a statue gifted a year ago to San Pedro from an Italian sister city, after there'd been some question as to its current whereabouts. The statue, bearing the oddly 1980s-sounding name, Multicultural Man (a more contemporary moniker might be Diversity Dude), is sitting in a Wil ... More >>

Today in Photographs: March 18, 1958

A Catholic priest comforts the suicidal 18-year-old man he persuaded from jumping from a Wilmington oil derrick. Photo: L.A. Examiner/USC Digital CollectionClick image to enlarge

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Polanski Loses Bid to Nix L.A. Judges The AP's Linda Deutsch reports that a three-member appellate panel has rejected self-exiled film auteur Roman Polanski's motion to bar any Los Angeles County judge from participating in his case. Polanski, who claims he has no plans to ever return to the U.S., i ... More >>

Octuplet Blacklash

It had to happen. Immediately after the birth of the Bellflower octuplets, TV anchors cooed and newspapers trembled with feelgood reports of the miraculous C-section. It wasn't long, however, for the births to reveal the fear and anger about immigration and race that simmer just below the surface of ... More >>

Two Local Strikes on the Horizon

A pair of labor disputes that could have far-reaching effects on the L.A. economy are edging into the spotlight. Tomorrow morning Local 675 of the United Steelworkers of America will seek a strike sanction from the L.A. County Federation of Labor. The union, whose local and national negotiating comm ... More >>

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The Well-Oiled Deal

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Port in a Storm

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Ports of Cash

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Pier Pressure

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An Exquisite Scar

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Distant Port

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Yo Quiero Tacos

Yeah. Drop the chalupa.