Dennis Romero

Author Phillip Lambro, who worked as the composer on Roman Polanski's 1974 masterpiece Chinatown, is recycling allegations he's made against the director in order to re-energize sales of his Hollywood tell-all, Close Encounters of The Worst Kind. Lambro says in a press release issued this week that Polanski was attracted......

The city of Los Angeles' credit rating was downgraded on Tuesday by Fitch Rating, which cited an expected budget deficit that would amount to nearly one-tenth of revenue next year. According to Bloomberg, the lowered score covers nearly $3 billion in debt. And, although that might not be much for......

In yet another sign of the print media meltdown the venerable Washington Post newspaper on Tuesday announce it's closing its Los Angeles bureau along with its outposts in Chicago and New York. Some of the Posts top journalists (John Pomfret being one) made career stops at the L.A. bureau, and......

Los Angeles had been safe from the ACORN scandal until now: Conservative activist James O'Keefe recently released the second in a series of videos that portray him and a prostitute visiting local offices of ACORN and asking for business help starting up a child-sex operation. The nonprofit group has been......

A woman was in jail today after she allegedly shot another woman about a block from the Los Angeles Police Department's Central Division, a Skid Row station so close that a cop who happened to be out front nabbed the suspect as witnesses chased her down, police say. Michelle Cato,......

It looks like production of the 2011 Tesla Model S is coming to Los Angeles County. The District Weekly in Long Beach and the Downey Patriot report that Tesla is setting up shop for the new, moderately priced sedan at a former NASA facility in Downey. "We're very close to......

Los Angeles, home to a near 14 percent unemployment rate, could be in the midst of "a two-year, jobless recovery," Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Larry Frank told Reuters. That's some hard medicine to swallow, but the city has received about $44 million in federal stimulus funds intended to train workers......

A Los Angeles man who works as a DJ and grew up as an adopted child in the Midwest recently revealed that his father is convicted killer Charles Manson, who, along with his "Manson Family" followers terrorized L.A. 40 years ago. Matthew Roberts, 41, told the U.K.'s Sun newspaper that......

We told you about a redheaded student being attacked at a Calabasas middle school as part of "kick a ginger day." Well, it turns out there were four other carrot tops who got kicked and hit as part of a coordinated redhead attack that was promoted via Facebook. The anti-redhead......

New Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck took less than a week as the city's top cop to rearrange his command staff. While you might rightfully have a sharp eye on what he plans to do with his fellow challengers for chief, Deputy Chief Michel Moore and Assistant Chief......