J. Patrick Coolican

Los Angeles Downtown News reports a Target store may be moving in to the 7+Fig mall, which, despite the pretentious name, has been struggling of late. Downtown residents, who rejoiced when the area became a bit more livable with the opening of a Ralph's grocery store in 2007, can now......

The Los Angeles City Attorney sent out 46 letters to property owners Thursday, warning them that they are suspected of operating illegal medical marijuana dispensaries and must cease-and-desist or face criminal sanctions, a City Attorney spokesman told the Weekly Friday. The City Attorney's office, which is in litigation over the......

Today is Park(ing) Day, a worldwide event during which people transform metered parking spots into mini parks, an act of civil disobedience designed to point out that we need more open space in our cities. Here's the local Web site where you can find a nearby "park." Here's Stephen Box......

Time was, police, criminals and the media all got together and came up with some great nicknames for killers, robbers and gangsters. They were evocative and descriptive, catchy and rhythmic. Sometimes elaborate, sometimes simple and elegant. So Joseph Bonanno is "Joey Bananas" and Michael DiLeonardo is "Mikey Scars." Then there's......

Police say a man with a history of alleged bank robberies hit a Bank of the West Tuesday at Valley View Boulevard and Imperial Highway in La Mirada. He's been dubbed the "Bubble Wrap Bandit." So does he wrap his face in bubble wrap to disguise himself or something? Or......

The long, strange saga of L.A.'s medicinal marijuana ordinance continues today as 121 shops -- ruled by the City Clerk as not meeting requirements for final stamp of approval from the city -- will face Judge Anthony J. Mohr, who is expected to create a time-line for allowing shop proprietors......

A guy was trying to run from police in Winnetka by jumping roof-to-roof until he got stuck in the 20500 block of Sherman Way, Jeff Collado of the LAPD's Topanga Station said. The cops say he was on drugs. You don't say......