Christine Pelisek

The Los Angeles Planning Commission today put off voting for a plan that would regulate all new billboards and commercial signs in the city. The decision was made after a four-hour City Hall meeting in which dozens of anti-clutter activists, sign companies, business owners and lawyers complained that the proposal......

A newly released survey conducted in Los Angeles County found that  just 22 percent of residents polled were familiar with the politics and legal mess surrounding digital billboards. Of that fraction, just six percent reported that the issue was important to them. Those are only a few of the surprising......

As the March primary election nears, L.A. mayoral candidate Walter Moore is taking some heat from bloggers who are questioning his day job. Moore, who is running for the big spot for the second time, is an attorney with Richard Hamlin Attorneys. The problem? The Los Angeles-based law firm, which......

The LA Weekly recently nabbed a copy of a television broadcast by Spanish language station Channel 22 that details the killing spree attributed to the Grim Sleeper - the longest operating serial killer west of the Mississippi. The broadcast, which aired in early January, gives us credit for breaking the......

Los Angeles' City Council voted 10-4 today to support a state moratorium on digital billboards. This will rankle billboard companies who claim that California assemblyman Mike Feuer's proposed law takes away local control just when City Hall is trying -- again -- to get a handle on billboard clutter.Four council......

A widely anticipated federal traffic study into the dangers to motorists of brightly flashing, distracting digital billboards reports that -- drum role please! -- more research is needed to figure out if they're unsafe.The 39-page report, clinically entitled, "The Effects of Commercial Electronic Variable Message Signs on Driver Attention and......

The County of Los Angeles, Department of Coroner reports today that Scott Ruffalo, who died last December from a single gunshot wound to the top of his head, had very slight traces of cocaine, alcohol and morphine in his system. "Basically he wasn't under the influence," said Assistant Chief Ed......

L.A.'s City Council put off a widely-anticipated decision on whether to support a proposed statewide moratorium on digital billboards. Instead, the council will hold public discussions next Friday on whether to back Assembly Bill 109.If passed by the California legislature, Assemblyman Mike Feuer's (D-Los Angeles) state law will halt the......