Dennis Romero

An alleged white supremacist practiced his anti-minority skills mostly in Nevada, but it was a little trip to one of the most diverse cities in the world that got him in hot water with federal authorities. Ross Hack, 38, drove to Los Angeles in the summer of 1998 to get......

. Friends of the Southwest Museum Coalition say the Autry National Center in Highland Park plans to close the Southwest Museum of the American Indian on Dec. 31. The Southwest Museum, the Women of the West Museum and the Museum of the American West (formerly the Autry Museum of Western......

City fire union president Pat McOsker called on the City Council on Wednesday to reinstate full staffing at the Los Angeles Fire Department, the lack of which, he argues, could have contributed to two recent deaths. In August the council imposed what the union calls intermittent, fire-company "brownouts," which take......

The death of Roy E. Disney Wednesday marked the end of the line for members of his family working at the Burbank-based entertainment giant created in 1923 by his father Roy O. Disney and by his uncle Walt Disney, a Disney spokesman confirmed to the Weekly. Although Roy E. Disney......

Media crews from around the world were camped outside Cedars-Sinai Medical Center this week as they kept tabs on the man we call the "French Elvis," 66-year-old Johnny Hallyday. We're not sure what's stranger -- that Americans don't know the first thing about Hallyday, or that the media keep putting......

The city of Los Angeles might be facing a $400 million deficit, but a tide of red ink much larger than that confronts its pension funds, according to CityWatch LA. Combined deficits at the city's two major pension funds amount to a near state-of-California-sized budget hole: $11.5 billion. What's more,......

A man and his dog were shot in a Laurel Canyon home-invasion robbery that led to a car chase, with officers ultimately arresting four suspects in the Mid-City area, Los Angeles police said. Police responding to a call of a robbery in progress in the 8200 block of Mannix Dr......

The city of Los Angeles might be famous for bungling its regulation of out-of-control billboards and supergraphics, but for the latter part of winter some of those outdoor advertisements around town will blossom into works of art. Sure, it's little consolation for those of you whose views are aglow with......

From the word-is-mightier-than-the-sword department: The Los Angeles Police Department this week vowed to clean up lax oversight of spending by developing a "manual" that will provide guidelines for policing its own purchases. The move comes in the wake of a critical analysis by the department's own Internal Audits and Inspections......