Christine Pelisek

A federal appellate court dealt legendary litigator Laurence Tribe a bitter blow today when it ruled that Los Angeles' outdoor advertising and billboard ban did not violate an  advertising company's First Amendment right to free speech.Tribe was representing Metro Lights, whose federal lawsuit argued that the City of Los Angeles......

The Los Angeles County Coroner reported today that the son of hip hop record producer and rapper Dr. Dre died from an overdose of heroin and morphine. The drug tests had been pending for more than four months. The coroner's office wouldn't explain why it took so long for the......

Sick of years of inaction by bungling city bureaucrats and city lawyers, who have rendered all but dead a formal 2001 ban on new billboards, teams of residents roam L.A. streets, counting and documenting thickets of illegal and legal billboards in Westchester and Venice. Another group of angry Angelenos has......

For decades, the Los Angeles Fire Department has tried and failed to recruit women as firefighters, coming under intense political pressure from elected officials and women’s groups who said women were being kept off the fire lines. As L.A. Weekly reported in “Women Firefighters: The Gender Boondoggle,” in January, the......

Since 1985, a serial killer has been stalking African-American women in South Los Angeles. Amazingly, his murderous journey was unknown to the public until L.A. Weekly published an August 29 exclusive reporting that the slayer, who police believe had gone dormant for 13 years, was killing again. While local, national......

Susan Atkins, who is suffering from brain cancer, will be lucky to see the end of the year. In September, prison authorities quietly moved the 60-year-old Charles Manson follower (who has her own Web page) from an undisclosed hospital in Southern California to the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla......

Clear Channel and L.A. City Councilman Bernard Parks joined forces December 18 a second time to post a billboard in South Los Angeles that offers a $500,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the Grim Sleeper, a serial killer who has been victimizing African American women......

Who will get Hilda Solis' Congressional seat after becomes Secretary of Labor? All bets are off for now, but a squabble in East L.A. could be in the cards.Gloria Romero: Lady in Waiting?The San Gabriel Valley Tribune reported yesterday that State Senator Gloria Romero (D-Los Angeles) is aggressively pursuing  the......

The Wall Street Journal reported that President-elect Barack Obama has chosen California Democratic Rep. Hilda Solis as his Labor Secretary. "Like most Democrats, she is pro-labor," says political consultant Bill Carrick. "You would have a hell of a story if Barack Obama appointed someone anti-labor . . . She has......