It was a warm Saturday morning in April when two unmarked Los Angeles Police Department cars pulled into the parking lot of the Freewill Missionary Baptist Chur...
The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously yesterday to extend its citywide billboard moratorium until June 24. The council's 12-0 vote (members Weiss, Wesson and Reyes were absent) came one day after a federal judge issued a temporary injunction barring the city from taking action against 18 unpermitted supergraphics citywide......
The Los Angeles Police Department has arrested a third suspect in the shooting death of an L.A. County Sheriff's Deputy. A fourth man remains at large. "We will bring all those responsible for the murders to justice," said Police Chief William Bratton at a 1 p.m. press conference at Parker......
Lobbyists, union members and representatives of business owners in Los Angeles provided a unified front yesterday in their opposition to the city's proposed sign ordinance. "A business without a sign is no business," said Gary Toebben, president of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce. Toebben argued that businesses are......
A bill that would authorize advertisements on freeway signs used for Amber Alerts and other emergencies in California is headed for a state senate committee hearing next week. Called the "State Highway Operation and Protection Program Emergency Funding Act," the bill would allow Caltrans to turn over maintenance of highway......
Until last week Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa had remained mum about L.A'.s billboard fiasco. At a town hall meeting hosted by the Westside Regional Alliance of Councils, Villaraigosa pretty much proved that he was completely out of touch with the hot button issue that has rankled residents from Boyle Heights to......
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The L.A. Weekly interviewed nationally known criminal profiler and CNN/Fox News correspondent Pat Brown to learn her thoughts about the Grim Sleeper - the longest operating serial killer west of the Mississippi. The Grim Sleeper has killed mostly African American women in South Los Angeles since 1985. His last known......
San Diego Superior Court Judge Cynthia Bashant ruled today that former California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez's son, Esteban, and three friends must stand trial for the stabbing death of an allegedly unarmed 22-year-old college student outside a fraternity party.Esteban NunezBashant made her decision at 12:10 p.m., declaring there was enough......
CNN reports today on the investigation by Los Angeles police of the Grim Sleeper serial killer who has killed mostly African American women in South Los Angeles since 1985. Dubbed the Grim Sleeper by the LA Weekly because of his 13-year break between killings, he is the longest operating serial......
Los Angeles County has the largest rape kit backlog in the United States, according to a report released today by Human Rights Watch. More than 50 reporters, rape kit advocates, city workers and cops gathered today at a 40-minute press conference outside Los Angeles City Hall to hear the bleak......
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