Chris Vogel

Instead of a lush bouquet of flowers, coupons to mow the lawn, or yet another greeting card, why not get your mother what she really wants for Mother's Day? What is it? A tummy tuck and fake tits, apparently......

All-star NFL player Dwight Freeney is gonna need to lawyer up. A group of restaurant managers are suing the Indianapolis Colts defensive stud and several of Freeney's business partners over a contract to operate the Rolling Stone LA restaurant near Hollywood and Highland. Freeney is the primary investor in the......

When it comes to medical research on animals, one thing is certain: lots of folks don't like what's going on at UCLA, and the school doesn't much appreciate the more extreme animal activists. Over the years, faculty members and researchers have been the target of bombs, letters filled with razor......

What do Newt Gingrich and the NAACP have in common? Starting today, it's a new billboard in town. The latest addition to LA's sea of giant-ass signs is on Century Boulevard, compliments of the NAACP, and states that in the past 23 years state spending on jails has risen 20......

You'd think the homeless, pushing around shopping carts piled high with garbage bags and crumbling electronics, would be fairly low on the list of people to steal from. But there is one group of folks who supposedly can't stop taking and destroying their stuff. The LAPD......

After spending more than 25 years in prison, Bobby Joe Maxwell, aka "the Skid Row Stabber," had his conviction overturned near the end of 2010 because federal court judges determined that a prosecutor in the Los Angeles DA's office messed up big time and committed misconduct. Earlier in the year,......

The town of Casmalia, about an hour north of Santa Barbara and just a few miles from the Pacific Ocean, is best known as home of The Hitching Post restaurant, one of the best steak joints in the country and winner of the 2010 National Beef Backer Award. But the......

A little more than two years ago, Carson Starkey, an 18-year-old freshman at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, was found dead in the utility room of a fraternity from alcohol poisoning. Starkey had been pledging Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and during a ritual hazing dubbed, "Brown Bag Night," he and......

If you're a saleswoman and get sexually assaulted while making a sales call, you'd like to think your boss wouldn't make you go back to that customer again. But according to Southern California woman Carletta Beakes, she was not afforded that luxury. Now she's suing her former employer, the telephone......

Michael Grubbs was walking through a residential neighborhood in Chino one morning last August when he stupidly snatched a pair of black Vans sneakers that were sitting out on a front porch. He had no idea that inside the home were two off-duty LA County sheriff's deputies. And he had......