Dennis Romero

Waiters who sued the Pasadena-based Lawry's restaurant chain for sex discrimination because the eateries allegedly preferred to hire women to wait tables are getting a nice tip: The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission pressured Lawry's into settling the class action suit for a little more than $1 million. In addition......

Chalk up another point for the Great Recession, if you please: Sheriff's detectives say a 21-year-old man found dead in his Baldwin Park apartment had simply starved to death. Sheriff's homicide investigators were called to the 3100 block of Vineland Avenue in Baldwin Park about 9:52 a.m. Sunday to assist......

The saga of the crypt above Marilyn Monroe's resting place in Westwood added a new chapter over the weekend when it was revealed that zero bidders weighed in on the auction for the spot, which was valued at more than $500,000.Widow Elsie Poncher wanted to sell the crypt that is......

That city deal to take on Google's free email services as a cost-cutting measure will actually cost the taxpayers $1.5 million more next year than if City Hall would have stayed with its old email system.In what seems like bizarre math, Google competitor Novell points out that the cost of......

A rail-car-manufacturing deal that was touted by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa as a major job-maker for recession-ravaged L.A. fell through over the weekend, sending his go-go transportation agenda a little off track. The plan was to have Italian rail-car maker AnsaldoBreda build a 650-job factory in L.A. in order to fill......

Police who roughed-up and injured people in the so called "May Day Melee" in MacArthur Park in 2007 might have caused the city to pay out nearly $13 million in settlements but they didn't commit any crimes, the county district attorney announced today. "Although the officers involved might have used......

What promised to be a race filled with Democratic powerhouses has been handed to just one man who hasn't even announced he's running. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom today announced he's dropping out of the race to become the Democratic nominee for governor next year.The announcement was a stunner. Newsom......

News of a glow stick explosion in Texas has rocked the nightlife world. No, not really. A glow stick bracelet malfunction did injure a 13-year-old girl, who said she was playing with the accessory when it broke and squirted liquid into her eyes.The teen experienced vision problems and, she said,......

We're not the only ones who did a double take when the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority reported this week that homelessness was down 38 percent in the county compared to 2007. Let's get this straight: County unemployment, at 12.7 percent, is the highest it has been in a generation......