Dennis Romero

In what could be seen as visionary or monumental blindness, a Los Angeles-based fashion retailer is putting tweets about its brand up for all to see via LCD televisions in its 68 stores nationwide. Metropark this week announced the launch of its "Reverb" Twitter interface that allows tweets that mention......

The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday was one step closer to closing a vast majority of medical marijuana dispensaries in the city by capping the number of allowed pot shops at 137 -- the number of survivors from the days before the city's (overturned and generally ignored) 2007 moratorium......

Teachers were demonstrating outside Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters downtown Tuesday as its board was expected to vote on a budget that could layoff as many 5,000 employees, including 1,400 teachers, over two years. Despite a schools building boom -- much of that money comes from separate funding --......

Police arrested a 43-year-old woman in what they say was a plot to hire a private investigator, who turned out to be an undercover officer, to kidnap her 7-year-old son from his foster parents. Newport Beach police this week announced the arrest of Niveen Ismail on suspicion of soliciting the......

UCLA researchers this week published data that for the first time shows human blood stem cells can be engineered to attack HIV-infected cells and that the process could not only prove to be a breakthrough for AIDS patients but also for the sufferers of other viral diseases. The UCLA AIDS......

The City Council on Tuesday was taking a look at a proposed law that would essentially shut down most of the medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles. A provision that would limit a pot shop to serving 57,000 residents within a police division's area would ultimately mean the city would......

Los Angeles Police Deputy Chief backed away from comments published in an Israeli newspaper last week indicating that be believed the North Hollywood synagogue shooting Oct. 30 was "a stern warning linked to a criminal organization." Two men were wounded in the attack that he described to the Jerusalem Post......

If you were surprised to read that City Hall has once again put off the issue of whether to ask the owners of Staples Center to reimburse taxpayers for its Michael Jackson memorial show, or if you're angered after finding out that after two years of deliberations at least one......

Ah, the irreverence and pomposity of the rich and taste-challenged knows no bounds, even in these tough economic times. Take the case of this rare, 1994 Cizeta V16 douche-mobile which U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents seized on Monday not only because it had allegedly been imported illegally, but because......