Christine Pelisek

ALTHOUGH MEMBERS OF A LATINO street gang were convicted in federal court last Tuesday of committing a string of deadly hate crimes intended to drive blacks out of Highland Park, the predominantly Latino neighborhood just north of downtown is far from free of gang-fueled strife. Even as the trial was......

The three African-American men had just spent another evening at the Lodge, a popular gay bar in North Hollywood. It had become a ritual for 38-year-old Kenneth Kurry Wilson, his nephew, Dewayne Williams, 29, and their friend Frank Eubanks, ever since Williams moved into Highland Park, the predominantly Latino neighborhood......

A FRESNO MAN NAMED AS A SUSPECT in a string of 10 prostitution-related killings in Los Angeles has been cleared by DNA tests. Sixty-five-year-old Roger Hausmann, who remains in a Fresno jail on unrelated kidnapping charges, is no longer a suspect in the cases dating back to 1985. “It is......

sing computers and comparing notes, L.A. County coroner’s investigators last year began sorting through 800 autopsy and investigative reports involving the deaths of women since 2002. They made a separate list of those who had been dumped in alleys or on the sides of roads or in fields. Some of......

Stanley Tookie Williams didn’t go alone. On December 13, the same day he died, more than 50 people met with less ceremonious deaths in Los Angeles County. Here are accounts of some of their passings, taken from the annals of the Los Angeles County Department of the Coroner. Michael Edward......

A cross made of white and blue carnations stands next to a sandstone-colored coffin. A young woman cries loudly as Father Greg Boyle speaks from a podium about 30-year-old Saul “Chato” Garcia. Father Greg reads a handful of prison letters he received from Garcia as homeboys quietly listen in the......

A HANDFUL OF FLOWER ARRANGEMENTS are propped up against the wall of the Koreatown apartment. A black skateboard, its wheels removed in memory of a young tenant, sits in front of a temporary wood door at unit 357. The smell of smoke and burned flesh is still thick. It has......