Jill Stewart

In his first big move to address a campaign promise, City Attorney Carmen Trutanich today sent one of his top attorneys to persuade the Los Angeles City Council to enact a flat-out, no exceptions ban on new billboards in Los Angeles, the capital of the illegal billboard industry.In an emergency......

If you are among the 100 people left in Los Angeles who did not hear about Newsweek's special True Crime issue (now on the stands, published on Monday), check out their piece, "Eleven and Counting," about the intertwined quests of L.A.Weekly investigative reporter Christine Pelisek and LAPD Detective Dennis Kilcoyne......

Who will succeed LAPD Chief Bill Bratton, who is leaving to work for his former boss Michael Cherkasky at Kroll Associates (but in this incarnation, these two old friends will now run Altegrity)?Bratton announced his plan to leave following months of rumors -- rumors the chief fed by traveling almost......

Corrected to include Laura Ling's name:Award-winning investigative reporter Eric Longabardi over at The Enterprise Report has a troubling scoop about how Laura Ling, Euna Lee and Bill Clinton were brought back to the United States on a big jet owned by major Democratic Party donor and ultimate silver-spooner Stephen Bing,......

Bill Clinton used his old silver tongue during a surprise trip to Pyongyang today, and the egotistical despot Kim Jong Il promptly announced he is pardoning journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee -- who some experts had predicted faced many years of hard labor in a horrific North Korean prison......

UPDATE: I missed this really funny Los Angeles City Council agenda list published today by Mayor Sam blog's Petra Fried, showing the council's time today is being dominated by post-Jackson explanations, probes and studies. One interesting agenda item: trying to explain how the city spent a fortune on 3,500 boxed......

The news from Politico of the passing of longtime broadcaster Walter Cronkite is bound to bring forth a lot of memories from people who watched him as children, back when the network nightly news shows played a major role in shaping American culture and politics, unlike their far more diminished......

Updating our blog posts from the last few days, the bizarre killing by Columbus Ohio police of suspected High Desert Rapist Abram Bynum gets ever more convoluted. Columbus Dispatch reports that at least some time elapsed while Bynum, who veered into a big rig in a desperate suicide attempt (or......