Dennis Romero

The Chinese government was sued in Los Angeles court this week over its imposition of content-filtering software that is allegedly based on code stolen from CYBERsitter, LLC. The $2.2 billion suit claims that the People's Republic of China distributed "Green Dam Youth Escort" censorship computer programs that "illegally copied over......

Cops were asked by a federal judge to come to court next week and testify in a bail hearing for anti-gang activist Alex Sanchez, who has been jailed without bail on federal charges of alleged involvement in multiple slayings, assaults and extortion. U.S. district court Judge Manuel L. Real said......

Reality television star Tila 'Tequila' Nguyen is likely to be interviewed by police about late socialite Casey Johnson's possible prescription drug use, according to Fox News. The 30-year-old Johnson & Johnson heiress was found dead in her home near West Hollywood Monday morning, and Los Angeles police have opened a......

We've been lamenting the losses handed to us by New York lately, specifically its claim that it gets twice as many international tourists as L.A. Well now we have something we can hang our hat on: Los Angeles beat New York and every other city in ... job losses. Yay......

Lawyers for Roman Polanski requested Wednesday's much-anticipated court hearing in Los Angeles, the District Attorney's office indicated, and they might ask that their client be sentenced in absentia. The move comes in the wake of a state appeals court ruling in December that opened the door for Polanski, who fled......

A virtual flash mob of food trucks that successfully gathered at a Santa Monica parking lot (and raked in the dough) Monday was quashed Tuesday after the city announced that the mobile food court was illegal. While the owner of the lot, car dealership owner Steve Taub, was okay with......

A number of LAX security workers were fired in December after they were allegedly discovered to have been using drugs, CBS 2's David Goldstein reported Tuesday night. On a day when Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was calling the airport's security "ahead of the curve" in the wake of the attempted bombing......

Police on Tuesday announced the arrest of 25-year-old Jose Fructoso on suspicion of murdering Fountain Theater director Bennett Bradley, who was found stabbed to death in his Koreatown apartment Saturday. Police said the Mexican national was the 59-year-old auteur's lover. "We did a surveillance of the residence and we found......

The Los Angeles Coroner's office completed its autopsy of Casey Johnson, who died in Los Angeles at the age of 30 Monday morning, but it deferred any conclusions until toxicology tests, which usually take six to eight weeks, are completed. The coroner's office reported that Johnson's body showed no signs......