Jason McGahan

California Voters Will Decide on Whether to Approve a $2 Tax on Cigarettes and Whether Extend a Tax Bump on the 1%...

The greed of drugmakers is nowhere in dispute here, but the question is whether Prop 61 would account for it adequately....

Homelessness is high and rising in Los Angeles, and as the population grows, women are occupying a greater portion of it   In January, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority put the total number of homeless at 28,000 — an increase of 11 percent from last year. As for women, the number living on......

Residents of Elysian Valley are calling on city officials to ban cyclists from a section of the Los Angeles River Path where an elderly woman was struck by a biker earlier this month. The narrow path runs along the left bank of the Los Angeles River in Elysian Valley, also known as......

Before Angelenos head to the polls on November 8, we are breaking down the ballot into some quick reads to get you up to speed on what's up for a vote. Read more about the other propositions here. Proposition 58: Ending English Only What's At Stake:  Once upon a time,......

On October 12 at the intersection of Westerly Terrace and Sunset Boulevard in Silver Lake, the latest provocation against the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency was unveiled: it's a red, white and blue billboard inscribed, "Donald Trump Makes Me Wanna Smoke Crack." The words happen to be the title of the first......

For 10 years, police in California have significantly underreported the number of officer-involved shootings to the Office of the Attorney General, according to a study published earlier this year in the journal Criminal Justice Policy Review. As a result of the hundreds of reports omitted, the California Department of Justice is missing data on nearly......

On the night of April 25, 2014, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department dispatched three deputies to a suicide call at a home in Maywood, in southeast L.A. Earlier in the evening, a woman named Irma Hernandez had called 911, saying that her former husband, 42 year-old Salvador Palencia, was......

Just a half-block from the I-10 overpass, in the parking lot on the corner of Union Avenue and Washington Boulevard,  you'll find perhaps one of the rarest specimens of Southern California. It's a taco truck for Trump. From his Mariscos El Ostion taco truck, Mexican native Robert Patiño serves up all manner of......

LA Weekly has obtained a video showing footage of a fatal August 9 shooting in which LAPD officers fired at a teen in Boyle Heights. The boy, 14-year-old Jesse Romero, was shot and killed after a brief foot chase. At about 5:30 p.m., gang officers assigned to the LAPD’s Hollenbeck......