Dennis Romero

A Congressional Research Service report into the controversial voter-registration work of nonprofit group ACORN -- which has long been a target of conservatives -- suggests that a right-wing video sting against local ACORN offices and those elsewhere could have been illegal. The sting involved a pair of activists going into......

This guy had more charges than an iPhone and shadier friends than Tom Sizemore, but George Torres, founder of the Numero Uno markets and onetime alleged racketeer, is off the hook. Feds earlier this year withdrew RICO charges against him, and now they're down to one count. Torres, who sold......

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation filed a petition last week with the state Occupational Safety and Health Standards board asking it to enforce condom use at porn-industry shoots and noting that the state already regulates the transmission of blood-borne pathogens in medical settings. "In our view the current regulation, which is......

While Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was jetting around Europe for a $120,000, taxpayer-funded trip this month, City Controller Wendy Greuel was counting the city's money, and what she found isn't not even half has pretty as Copenhagen in December: The city is now looking at a 98.1 million deficit for the......

A lawsuit that aimed in part to get the county of Los Angeles health department to force the local porn industry to require condom use on-set was rejected by a judge. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the plaintiff in the case, stated it would appeal. The county Department of Health Services,......

In his announcement this week that he would put 130 officers back on regular patrols, Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck failed to emphasize that the move would break up an effective, mobile, crime-saturation unit that has been used to target gangs and problem areas in the city. Those 130......

The union representing rank-and-file Los Angeles police and the chief of the San Francisco Police Department are urging Attorney General Jerry Brown to appeal a state appellate judge's ruling that overturns a state ban on body armor for violent ex-convicts. They want to see the case taken before the California......

Understandably, 2009 will go down as a crap year. Unemployment, sub-prime loans, yada yada yada. But Hollywood is ballin' like it's 1999. Annual North American movie-ticket sales are expected to pass the $10 billion mark for the first time, according to reports that quoted research by Hollywood.com. In fact, the......