Dennis Romero

The Lakers can add ad another crown to their collection as Forbes magazine on Thursday proclaimed the squad the most valuable team in the NBA. Hot off last season's championship, the magazine valued the franchise at $607 million, which topped the New York Nicks (#2; $586 million), the Chicago Bulls......

Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Thursday approved a light-rail line that would run down the "Crenshaw corridor" from Exposition Boulevard to LAX. The line, which could open in 2018, would run through parts of Inglewood, Hawthorne and El Segundo as a much-needed north-south transit line, "potentially providing relief......

He's an utterly ambitious career politician with the $2,000 suits, million-dollar smile and billionaire friends, but you all know him simply as Mayor V. Observers have wondered what Antonio Villaraigosa was going to do next after letting the gubernatorial race pass him by. One pundit thinks he has the answer:......

Sheriff's officials on Thursday said the shooting death of prominent attorney Jeffrey A. Tidus was a homicide, putting to rest, at least for now, the possibility that the high-profile litigator killed himself. Sheriff's Sgt. David Infante said "detectives have determined that Tidus was murdered." It's a scary prospect. If true,......

A Los Angeles police officer who died in a motorcycle crash last week had blood-alcohol content "well over" the legal limit for driving and had been imbibing at a bar at the Los Angeles Police Academy in Elysian Park as part of longstanding "payday Wednesday" festivities at the campus, police......

Former Los Angeles police Detective Stephanie Lazarus was ordered to stand trial for the 1986 murder of her ex-boyfriend's wife. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge, however, said she was not eligible for the death penalty. Judge Robert J. Perry on Thursday said there was not enough evidence to support......

Police on Thursday said they were looking into the possibility that the suspect in the brutal rape and murder of a pregnant woman in Venice could be linked to other crimes. KNX 1070 Newsradio states that police are double checking unsolved crimes in the area to determine if the suspect,......

In this edition of "Really?!," we take a look at the recent stances of Los Angeles city Councilwoman Jan Perry. This week Perry voted against allowing the LAPD to train and hire 11 much-needed officers, complaining that the city did not have the $6.2 million dollars to fund the move......

A woman 18-weeks pregnant with twins was raped and fatally stabbed in her Venice home, police reported late Wednesday. A 22-year-old suspect from Culver City, identified as Boneetio Kentro Washington, was spotted running from the scene by responding officers who stopped him and made an arrest. The crime happened Tuesday......

Boy, those were the days. Million-plus-dollar homes in Culver City (Culver City!), Mar Vista (at the bottom of the hill) and Venice (away from the beach) were the rage only a few years ago. The flip side to all of that madness, however, is that Los Angeles now leads the......