Jill Stewart

Slamming the Los Angeles City Council's bizarre 2006 "settlement" with billboard giants Clear Channel and CBS Outdoor as "poison," Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Terry Green tossed out the backroom deal that handed huge outdoor advertisers a multi-billion-dollar gift to erect more than 800 glaring, digital billboards in Los Angeles......

California taxpayers unknowingly handed a cool $50 million to braggart Al Villalobos, and now the inept leaders of the California Public Employee Retirement System are arguing that they encouraged this possible pay-to-play debacle because they needed Al Villalobos to suggest places for Calpers to invest its vast portfolio of public......

Californians finally agree strongly on something: 72 percent of Democrats, 86 percent of Republicans and 77 percent of "decline to state" voters (people who generally can't stand the two-party system), all disapprove of the California State Legislature.That's what the new Field Poll says, the lowest approvals in more than a......

Huge big-rigs are quietly vanishing from the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach regularly, their cargo whisked away by sophisticated crime teams using regional leaders, fencers, "lumpers" and drivers who hijack the entire big-rig container, each stuffed with goods worth between $12,000 -- in, say, Fruit of......

Is the Los Angeles City Council the stupidest political body currently active in Southern California? I'd be tempted to say yes after news of an embarrassing, racist, patronizing, and frankly just icky idea to ban convenience stores in South Los Angeles because its residents are too stupid to pass the......

It's pretty hilarious to see the headlines this morning after a paparazzi standing on the street corner just down from the Brentwood home of Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger caught the former newswoman again yammering on her cell phone while driving a huge black whatever SUV.On the video, which you......

It's a gorgeous high school just off the 101 Freeway, lauded a few years ago by school officials as the new face of once-rundown Hollywood and named after Los Angeles education reformer Helen Bernstein.But earlier today a girl was shot and seriously wounded when she got in the crossfire of......

So the film crew for the remake of "The Flight of the Phoenix" is down in Namibia in 2004, and during the filming this big, fake airplane weighing in at about 800 pounds accidentally crashes into the cinematographer, Ciaran Barry.Barry claims he suffered extensive injuries getting hit by the fiberglass......

Is it soup yet? Definitely. Today, although it looks beautiful and white-capped under the gloomy skies, Santa Monica Bay is teeming with toxins and filth, big-time, because a fairly heavy rain hit the city this morning following months of drought. And that rainfall washed God-knows-what kind of built-up crap off......

Bulletin on the bullet train: It's already getting mired in sleaze, and the "routes" being eyed are beginning to cause rage, fury and protests in beautiful cities like Palo Alto that would be cut in half with a huge "wall" to support the high speed rail. And this is unfolding......