Dennis Romero

The Los Angeles Police Commission is keeping the identities of two candidates to replace outgoing department Chief William Bratton a secret. You see, the applicants don't want their out-of-town departments to know they're going for the brass ring. But that won't prevent us from wondering aloud about the identity of......

San Francisco authorities this week said they linked DNA from Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker, to the April 10, 1984 murder of a 9-year-old girl there. They added that they are investigating possible links to other homicide cases from that year. Ramirez lived at two addresses in the area at......

If you've ever been to Beverly Hills and noticed that every other car on the street has a handicap parking permit, you're not alone. In fact, the Beverly Hills Police Department is on the case and, according to one report, your worst suspicions might be true.The Beverly Hills Courier reported......

Federal agents today and Wednesday fanned out across Southern California and the rest of the nation in what has been described as the largest domestic crime strike against a Mexican drug cartel. Twenty-four people were arrested locally and three area cells related to the La Familia cartel were targeted, stated......

It seemed like only yesterday that community leaders were still debating about where a prospective new NFL stadium would go -- Carson, Exposition Park (at a refurbished Coliseum) or the San Gabriel Valley's far-out city of Industry. The governor just cast a big vote for the latter. Today he signed......

The locally based AIDS Healthcare and Pink Cross foundations have organized a boycott of Marriott hotels over porn. The protest is not about the Mormon-founded chain's in-room, X-rated offerings. No, that's just fine. The problem, according to the groups, is the hotel company's palette of on-demand smut that features actors......

Sometimes we feel sorry for the paparazzi. Sure, most of them didn't go to Northwestern, intern for big newspapers or get bright-green LAPD press cards. They don't bring us news we can use. But they do capture an aspect of history, work their butts off, and face great bodily harm......

The expansionist era of Chief William Bratton is over, and the city is seeking to put a lid on costs stemming from policing Los Angeles. A new contract with the city that aims to reign in the Los Angeles Police Department's overtime costs was approved by the rank-and-file members of......

Emergency room visits to County-USC Medical Center are up 25 percent in recent days compared to the same time last year, a hospital official confirmed to LA Weekly today. Many patients are complaining of H1N1-flu-like symptoms, but the official did not know if they were solely to blame for the......