Jill Stewart

Thanksgiving Week turned tragic in Los Angeles when a callous hit-and-run driver ran down Lina Andrade, 62, sending her flying 70 feet in a dense residential area of Westlake, then circling back to take a look before fleeing the scene, LAPD says. "It was a horrible thing, with this driver......

Also See: L.A. City Council Approves Meatless Mondays in Squid Ink. The Los Angeles City Council really failed a pop quiz showing how disconnected, overpaid and puffed-up its 15 elected politicians have become, when it voted 14-0 to urge L.A.'s 3.8 million residents to adopt Meatless Mondays. Would they mean......

The heat is on. Kate Anderson, an activist mom and successful attorney with political chops -- she worked for Congress members Henry Waxman and Jane Harman -- will try to oust Steve Zimmer, the Westside's man on Los Angeles Unified School Board, in March 2013. Zimmer has emerged as a......

Shortly after midnight, victorious Proposition 39 was approaching landslide status, with 59.2 percent Yes votes, and thousands of construction workers were a bit closer to getting some of their jobs back in California. The measure will raise $1 billion per year, half for the general fund and half for "energy-efficiency......

Update: Prop. 39 surged ahead as precincts began reporting from around California. See next page for more. Early returns show California voters almost evenly split on Proposition 39, which the fiar-minded, non-partisan California Legislative Analyst's Office says could pour up to $1 billion into state coffers -- and could lead......

With early results in, it looks like an embarrassing, costly, if not downright silly, re-do of California's 40 state Senate voting districts will not be required just a year after the California Citizens Redistricting Commission did a solid job of redrawing them. It all depends on how confused voters were......

Update:The judge weighs in on the Allred-Romney-Stemberg hearing. See at bottom. Will the greatest October-surprise schemer in California history, attorney Gloria Allred, who trotted out Meg Whitman's housekeeper Nicky Diaz (actually in late September) before the 2010 election and instantly sank Whitman in the polls, all but handing Jerry Brown......

In May 2011, at a final public hearing over whether to approve the tallest skyscraper in Hollywood history, the Department of Planning unveiled 231 pages of surprise "supplemental findings" backing the developer's plan. The 200,000-word, book-length document gave the L.A. City Council's Planning and Land Use Management committee an added......