Christine Pelisek

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously today to ban all digital billboards in the city, an action brought before them by City Attorney Carmen Trutanich, who feared that an existing "Interim Control Ordinance" that temporarily bans digital billboards and super-graphics may soon be found invalid by a judge. "I......

Chief Bill Bratton is expected to announce today that he plans to resign from the Los Angeles Police Department to take over as the top gun of a private security firm. According to radio reports, he has accepted a job at Altegrity Inc., which is based in Falls Church, Virginia......

A Hispanic male who was shot to death August 2 while standing near the corner of 42nd Street and Central Avenue at 9 a.m has been identified as 23-year-old Francisco Cornelio.  View Larger Map According to police, two male blacks in their mid-20s approached Cornelio in a black Chrysler 300......

A Hispanic male who was stabbed to death July 31 after an altercation with a group of men has been identified as 23-year-old Santiago Morales. View Larger Map According to police, Morales and a friend got into a fight with the four or five suspects at 6:45 p.m. in the......

A man who was gunned down July 31 in what appears to be a gang-related shooting in Sylmar has been identified as 35-year-old Antonio Arenas. View Larger Map The three suspects are currently on the lam. The 10:30 a.m. shooting occurred at Roxford Street and San Fernando Road. According to......

A man who was found dead on a downtown street August 1 has been identified as 67-year-old Robert Burrus. Burrus was discovered on West Sixth Street and Fremont Avenue at 7 a.m. View Larger Map He was the victim of a "wound to his throat." Police say they have no......

A man who was fatally stabbed in South Los Angeles on August 3 was identified as 56-year-old Reginald Paris. The vicious stabbing attack occurred at 5:30 a.m. at 107th and Figueroa streets. View Larger Map Police are unsure of the motive but are looking for a man and a woman......

The 20-year-old man who was gunned down in an apparent gang-related shooting in Van Nuys on August 3 was identified as Giovanni Perez.  View Larger Map  Perez was standing on a sidewalk on the corner of Valerio Street and Lennox Avenue about 11:30 p.m., Monday, when he was approached by......

Police are looking for two Hispanic males who shot a man on a West Valley street August 3. The victim was shot several times in the upper torso in the 17000 block of Vanowen Street at 10:20 p.m.  View Larger Map Anyone with information should contact West Valley Division detectives......

A teenager was gunned down August 3 while walking down a street. Jeremy Burrell, 17, was walking in the 3400 block of West 63rd Street when he was confronted by a group of African American males who drew handguns and began firing at him, according to police.  View Larger Map......