Dennis Romero

This has got to be the ultimate film-lover's souvenir, and you can't buy one on Hollywood Boulevard. Rather, Paramount Pictures is rolling out a website where everyday movie fans will be able to edit and then buy and download a self-selected clip from their favorite Paramount flicks. The Godfather, Top......

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Tuesday ruled that the City Controller cannot audit elected officials, including the City Attorney, whose office had sued the controller over the matter. The ruling was a victory of sorts for City Attorney Carmen Trutanich, even though he's not he one who sued......

Backers of a state proposition that would overturn the Prop. 8 same-sex-marriage ban are facing some serious obstacles, not the least of which is collecting about a million signatures in support of putting the initiative in front of state voters by April 12. The million signatures should be enough to......

Leave it to Mayor V: If there is hyperbole to be had, it shall be his. And so it was at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen Tuesday: Instead of staying home to take care of potholes, budget deficits and mushrooming pot shops, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was on a......

A car plowed into a photographer and a model on a fashion shoot in downtown Los Angeles, killing the shooter and injuring the model, police said. The collision happened at East Sixth and Mateo streets in Skid Row about 6 Monday night. Photographer Daniel Salazar Moreno, 31, was pronounced dead......

A state commission empowered with redrawing California senate and assembly district boundaries opened up to applications from everyday citizens Tuesday. Under Prop. 11, passed last year, power for redistricting shifts from the legislature to a 14-member commission that will ultimately be chosen by the state auditor. A press conference about......

Looking into a federal receiver's numbers on California's prison health-care system, KPCC (89.3 FM) found that while inmate deaths have declined for the second year in a row, the number of preventable deaths was up 50 percent. It's against this backdrop of overcrowding and poor conditions that prisons have been......

An Echo Park car wash that's been in the news repeatedly for alleged violations of workplace-safety rules and employee compensation standards is being sued by state Attorney General Jerry Brown for $2.6 million, his office announced Tuesday. The suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court today, names Auto Spa Express,......

The strange saga of Mitrice Richardson is now a murder investigation, according to sheriff's officials. The woman went missing from the sheriff's Lost Hills station early on the morning of Sept. 24 after she was detained there for allegedly failing to pay a restaurant bill in nearby Malibu. After being......

Huffington Post has gotten a lot of play out of its item about why L.A. is "the toughest town for singles." Author Alex Benzer states that the ratio of women to men is low, the city's distant expanses are difficult to overcome, everyone's social climbing instead of climbing in bed,......