Dennis Romero

A commenter who says he's the Santa Monica businessman who registered an SUV that the Los Angeles Times reports has been driven by USC star tailback Joe McKnight denied providing the vehicle the player in a post responding to to LA Weekly's own item on the matter Saturday. The writer,......

Joe McKnight, a star tailback at USC, has been driving an SUV owned by a Santa Monica businessman, an arrangement that would be against NCAA rules, the Los Angeles Times reports. The paper states that a reporter has seen the player behind the wheel at least once, and that the......

The UCLA Anderson Forecast, the president and the stock market (on some days) say the recession is over, but banks keep going bust. The latest victim was Santa Monica-based First Federal Bank, which was closed Friday by the federal Office of Thrift Supervision. Pasadena-based OneWest Bank announced that it would......

The Los Angeles District Attorney's office says that brazen home-invasion in Laurel Canyon this week in which a resident and his dog were shot was carried out in part by a 24-year-old who had been a housekeeper at the home. The suspect, Elizabeth Hernandez, was officially fingered in the caper......

The Los Angeles Country Club, protected under Prop. 13 limits and loopholes, pays an ultra-low rate of about $200,000 a year in property taxes based on 313 acres of prime Westside property that could be worth nearly $20 billion or even more if it were developed, according to the Garment......

Gentleman, start your bongs: Cannapalooza, "the international marketplace for all things cannabis," will make L.A.'s vibrant marijuana shops a virtual ghost town for three days in March as the the smoke scene heads to Vegas for this inaugural pipe dream. The convention at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center happens March......

In one of the more bizarre explanations for a public project postponement, a news organization discovered that paint caused the months-long delay of the Metro Gold Line light rail's Eastside Extension. According to Neon Tommy, the publication of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, documents it unearthed explain......

A mayoral spokeswoman confirmed to LA Weekly Friday that the mayor's trip to Europe this week to attend a climate conference and meet with world leaders and European dignitaries in Copenhagen, Berlin and London cost taxpayers "approximately" $120,000. While in Europe Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa trumpeted the city's green program to......

If your iPhone is a little slow you can probably blame fellow users are staging a protest Friday to send a message to AT&T that they're not going to be happy if the company start charging usage fees for those who use the internet and email functions of their devices......

Montreal artists Claudia Ficca and Davide Luciano, known for their eponymous series of works on potholes in their hometown and in New York are in Los Angeles this month to continue their good work. . The duo won't have to look far. As we reported Thursday, Los Angeles has the......