Dennis Romero

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials announced on Thursday they seized 600 illegal Barbie dolls worth nearly $24,000 dollars. It wasn't clear if the undocumented Barbies were from Mexico, so hold off on the illegal bashing. (Besides, Mexican Barbies are high-maintenance and would only come here to steal your man,......

Some African-American parents aren't happy with Mattel and the El Segundo toy giant's "So in Style" toys, its first line of black dolls, which have the size and shape of its Barbie line. While parents of all backgrounds have debated about the anorexic shape of Barbie, some black parents say......

Charlie Beck had a public swearing in as the 56th chief of the Los Angeles Police Department Thursday, and it was his father, retired LAPD Deputy Chief George Beck, who pinned the top-cop badge on his son for all to see in the plaza of the new Police Administration Building......

Rumors of a third Tiger Woods mistress gained momentum Thursday as Life & Style magazine reported that "Kalika Moquin ... a marketing manager for The Bank nightclub in Las Vegas, hooked up with Tiger more than once at his Las Vegas hotel during the weekend of Oct. 23." Woods this......

A woman was struck and killed by a limousine that then dragged her body through the streets of Skid Row for a mile, at one point passing the Los Angeles Police Department's Central Division station, alerting officers to the crime. The alleged homicide happened about 1 a.m. at East Eighth......

Los Angeles City Councilman Ed Reyes says the city isn't likely to see a law limiting the city's burgeoning medical marijuana trade until next year. While that's less than a month away, it's another sign that the City Council doesn't have the fortitude to grapple with an issue that has......

Gloria Allred canceled a press conference scheduled for Thursday that was to showcase Rachel Uchitel's denials of an affair with golfer Tiger Woods. TMZ managing editor Harvey Levin stated on KNX 1070 (AM) Newsradio this morning that Uchitel had an ongoing affair with Woods and was even on the phone......

At this point Moses himself could descend from the mountaintops with a declaration that thou shalt not sell freakin' pot in retail storefronts and the Los Angeles City Council would move ahead with its ordinance to allow cash-for-marijuana in L.A. This week a superior court judge ruled that sales of......

Former Los Angeles CIty Councilman Joel Wachs on Wednesday endorsed Hollywood Christine Essel in the highly contentious, high-spending race to fill the second district council seat left open by Wendy Greuel, who became City Controller in July. Wachs has been fairly quiet since leaving politics in 2001 after an unsuccessful......