Gene Maddaus

Arcadia developer Henry Nunez has still not eaten anything since Sunday, as he tries to draw attention to next week's Arcadia City Council election."I'm just hurting," he said by phone today. "It's a roller coaster for me. Supporters will stop by the office to say how much they believe in......

Henry Nunez, a 51-year-old real estate developer, has a dream for the city of Arcadia. A dream of a dense, urban downtown with five-story mixed-use developments around a light-rail station. Unfortunately, it seems Arcadians do not share his dream.So he has taken a page from movement leaders like Cesar Chavez......

The announcement today that Archbishop Jose Gomez, of San Antonio, will succeed Cardinal Roger Mahony as Archbishop of Los Angeles, is indeed "an epic moment," as Mahony put it, in the history of the church.Here are five themes from today's announcement:1. First Latino Archbishop of Los AngelesOK, technically there were......

Today the mayor announced a plan to furlough non-public safety employees two days a week, starting next Monday, in order to prevent the city from running out of cash.Sounds impressive, but it won't happen. Under the contract with the Coalition of L.A. City Unions, the mayor has no authority to......

Because practically nobody covers the county anymore, the job of writing light feature stories about the nation's largest local government has fallen to... Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky's press staff.Today they turn in a nice piece on Ebony and Tahoe (pictured), two dogs that sniff packages in search of contraband vegetables. Evidently,......

Attention cast and crew of the ABC show "Lost":The L.A. County Coroner's office is trying to identify a body found last month in a wooded area in Castaic. So far the biggest clue is that the young man was wearing a "Lost" crew T-shirt from Season 2 (2005-2006). On the......

At a press conference this afternoon, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was asked about the city's top budget official, Miguel Santana, who entered treatment after being arrested for DUI last week."My heart and my prayers are with him and his family," the mayor said, adding that Santana may need some time to......

Kristen Heather is the curator at the historic Point Fermin Lighthouse in San Pedro. But not for long, as she got her two weeks' termination notice this week.Heather is the first of 4,000 city employees expected to be laid off in this round of city budget cuts. For most, it......