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A former inmate at California Institution for Women filed a lawsuit last month against a correctional officer, whom she says raped and sexually assaulted her on a daily basis over a six month time period. DeEtta Williams (sometimes called 'Dee') claims Officer Michael Ewell had also previously sexually assaulted a......

The hippest street corner in America's hippest neighborhood may be under threat. A group of concerned Silver Lake-ians fear that a proposed hotel at the junction of Sunset and Santa Monica, across the street from Intelligentsia Coffee, the famous "Sunset Junction" sign, and all that is holy, will spell the end......

The wardens for both of California's female-only prisons "retired" on Friday. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is calling it a coincidence. But prisoner advocates say it's a housecleaning. "They appear to be forced retirements," says Colby Lenz, a legal advocate with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners. The two prisons –......

There was much excitement and ballyhoo when Phase 2 of the Expo line opened in May, allowing L.A.'s nascent rail network to stretch its tracks to within blocks of the salty Pacific Ocean. But there were also complaints that the trains were too slow and that the line that had......

Angelenos who show up to vote this November will be met a very long ballot. The Vogue September issue-size booklet will open, astonishingly enough, with Donald Trump running for president (still can't believe it) and go on to include a cavalcade of ballot measures — at least 17 statewide propositions,......

Erika Rocha spent her 35th birthday — her last birthday — at California Institution for Women (CIW), the smaller of the state's two female-only prisons. In the yard of the Chino Valley facility, about an hour east of downtown L.A., her friends threw her a Tinker Bell party. "For two......

Across the street from City Hall, Black Lives Matter is settling in. They've been protesting for a week, sleeping in tents, and they say they're staying until Mayor Eric Garcetti fires LAPD Chief Charlie Beck.  "We’re gonna be there until they fire Chief Beck, until he’s gone," says Black Lives......

As if there weren't enough reasons for people to hate on notorious L.A. developer Geoff Palmer, who's brought the city such architectural atrocities as the Orsini and the Da Vinci, Palmer has given a Donald Trump Super PAC a cool $2 million, according to a Federal Election Commission quarterly report filed......

Coyotes, man. They're everywhere. That's what people say, anyway, if you go on social media or websites like Next Door. Even City Councilman Joe Buscaino, who wants the city to revise its Coyote Management Plan, said, in a motion: Despite the efforts of the Department of Animal Services, problems with coyotes......