Chris Vogel

A long-standing toxic landfill in Monterey Park, 10 miles east of Downtown LA, is on the verge of getting another multi-million dollar cleanup. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it is working on a settlement with 275 former polluters who would pay $17 million toward cleaning up the......

It's perhaps no surprise that illegal turtle smuggling investigations take a long, long time. On Friday, however, a year-long federal sting concluded, netting a pair of Japanese tortoise smugglers at LAX. So far, this doesn't sound as gruesome as the whale meat scandal from last year, where a Santa Monica......

The Los Angeles Unified School District wants to build a new state-of-the-art school in northeast LA to help relieve overcrowding at Franklin, Eagle Rock and Marshall high schools. The school district already has the land all picked out and paid for - 23 acres - and is ready to go......

Among the many ideas Gov. Jerry Brown apparently has to reduce California's colossal $25 billion-plus deficit, including reductions to state parks and libraries, is to pawn state prisoners off on county jails. That may work in some counties, but it's hardly clear if LA is one of them......

When Jacqueline Getty was getting divorced from Peter Getty last year, she asked the court for more than $500,000 a month to support her habit as a former member of the Getty clan. A judge said no, and decided that the grandson of billionaire oil tycoon J. Paul Getty only......

Ninth Circuit Judge Harry Pregerson has asylum seekers backs​People seeking asylum in the United States suffered a serious blow when the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals recently voted not to review the case of a woman who had suffered genital mutilation in her homeland. That's according to Judge Harry Pregerson,......

​Several University of California schools are among the nation's best deals and offer the most bang for the buck. According to Kiplinger's annual list of the 100 best bargains among the country's public colleges, no UC school makes the top ten, but several do make the cut. Which ones, you......

​The City of Seal Beach has a couple of bad cops on its police force and refuses to do anything about it. That is, if you believe a lawsuit recently filed in federal court by a pair of brothers who claim that two police officers planted evidence and lied in......

As evening falls on southern Mexico, Sarah (not her real name) is shopping at a fruit market a block from her house. It is Friday, and her father, an investigat...