Dennis Romero

The claimant in a suit against first AME Church and its head pastor, Rev. John J. Hunter, put her cards on the table this week, including one lascivious greeting card from the preacher that states he pleasured himself to thoughts of her. Brenda Lamothe claims that she was coerced into......

Ah, Vegas. Sometimes we envy your laissez-faire ways. Sometimes we just shake our heads in disgust. We're not sure what to do with this one: You're letting minibuses displaying exotic dancers cruise up and down the strip. Really?I mean, we Californians can't even glance down at a mobile phone at......

The saga of the church lady versus First AME Church's Rev. John J. Hunter took another turn today as the plaintiff appeared before television news cameras and claimed that the pastor "used his position and his spiritual authority to intimidate bully and coerce me into a sexually relationship." Rev. Brenda......

While most of us would run at the sound of gunshots coming from a bank, a mother's instinct prompted one woman to head toward the danger: 48-year-old Kathleen Khalid ran into the bank because her son was there cashing a check. Upon her arrival she found a security guard struggling......

A study of those red-light cameras in the city of Los Angeles found that at most intersections where they were examined accidents had increased six months after they were installed compared to the previous six months. The cameras were installed with the promise of increasing safety by encouraging drivers not......

While the city runs without a permanent police chief, a law to address the 800-and-growing pot-dispensary industry or a fully staffed fire department, the city council has cleared its calendar for the rest of the week. It's not exactly midsummer or even Thanksgiving. But for some reason, City Hall is......

If you like your tattoos like you like your drinks -- fast and cheap (and, frankly, you might need both here), then Broken Art Tattoo in Silver Lake has a deal for you: Get a tat for $20 ($10 for additional tats inked in the same session) and be a......

As we reported previously, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's pro-density housing policy took a hit when the state Supreme Court ruled last month that the city could not require the kind affordable housing units it tried to attach to otherwise upscale developments like Geoff Palmer's west-of-downtown Piero II.In an analysis of the......

The Los Angeles Marathon's new Westside-bound route, designed to showcase "the best Los Angeles has to offer," is called the Dodger "stadium to the sea" course -- and that sounds suspiciously similar to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's most-beloved pet project, the planned "subway to the sea." Though not a blueprint by......