Dennis Romero

The state legislature passed a bill that would open cell doors for 17,000 prisoners as a way to reduce California's budget by $300 million. The deal, part of a compromise that back-stepped away from a more-radical proposal to revamp sentencing and let even more prisoners finish their time outside correctional......

Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Chairman Jay Rasulo today added details to announced plans to upgrade the Disneyland-adjacent California Adventure. The biggest part of the plan is to add a 12-acre theme area, Cars Land, named for the animated hit Cars. With features including the Radiator Springs Racers, destined to......

Celebrations for the city's 228th birthday last week got us thinking. Most thumbnail histories say the city was officially founded by the Spanish on Sept. 4, 1781. It was, in fact, forged and claimed by Spain, which wanted a pueblo in the area. But many of those first settlers, Los......

Yesterday we told you how we had our doubts about Tila "Tequila" Nguyen's claims that her boyfriend, Charger linebacker Shawne Merriman, choked and restrained her during a spat in San Diego's North County last weekend. The local district attorney's office seemed to have similar doubts, and declined to pursue a......

One of the bigger ironies surrounding Jay Leno's primetime debut Monday is that NBC, he says, wanted him out as host of The Tonight Show even earlier than planned. In today's New York Times, the comic says the network approached him in 2004 with a plan to replace him as......

A day after a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power spokeswoman told the Weekly that all the subterranean water-system carnage that's happened over the week is "normal," another pipe burst, closing Melrose Boulevard near Fairfax Avenue and sending water rushing into a nearby -- gasp! -- Ed Hardy shop......

Is anybody surprised that the San Diego County District Attorney today declined to press charges against NFL linebacker Shawne Merriman after reality television's Tila "Tequila" Nguyen reported that he had choked and restrained her?It all went down last Sunday in the city of Poway in San Diego's North County after......

The city of Los Angeles' budget-fixing cutbacks for the city fire department could harm a tool firefighters across the region have relied on for years -- mutual aid. City fire union President Pat McOsker says that with 15, four-person engine companies and nine ambulances taken out of duty each day......