Jill Stewart

How bizarre to see the Violence Policy Center think tank's report revealing a bloodbath of murdered young people in California, led by such picturesque and/or laid-back NorCal places as gorgeous Monterey County, pricey San Francisco County, and dusty, farming-oriented San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties. No surprise to see Alameda County......

Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina sits behind her desk ticking off what she's good at and what she's bad at — just a few days after sending a jolt through Los Angeles politics by announcing that she will take on Jose Huizar, the City Council District 14 incumbent, in......

In a metropolis of 3.8 million, where most voters barely notice L.A. City Council elections, suddenly there's a slurve in the race. (In baseball, that's a slider thrown like a curve ball, confusing the hell out of everyone.) In this case, that slurve is Jay Beeber, the folk hero who proved......

Trevor Neilson is big name in celebrity philanthropic consulting, but he's no stranger to controversy. And now he's dealing with a controversy that appears to be of his own creation — failing to fully background-check the homeless young man, Jesse Helt, before letting Helt take the mic for Miley Cyrus......

We already know that the Los Angeles Police Department, the Sheriff, and police departments including Long Beach's use rooftop vehicle-mounted cameras that have collected millions of photos of the license plates and precise locations of innocent SoCal drivers. That info sits in a databank that law enforcement can use to......

If California teachers felt a shadow pass over today, it was the fairly stunning PACE/USC Rossier Poll showing California residents are sick of "last hired, first fired" teacher union rules and oppose the nearly automatic tenure system that makes it all but impossible to fire crappy teachers. Polls show that......

Up for auction, if you've earned sufficient riches in your joyful world: a rare 48-acre estate in the Brentwood Hills (about as big as, oh, 48 football fields) once home to film stars Dick Powell and June Allyson. The elegant ranch house of 12,000 square feet comes with a lake, guest......

The most unintentionally amusing judicial race in SoCal is the June 3 election for Superior Court Office No. 48 featuring Charles Calderon and Carol Rose. The Los Angeles County Bar Association's Judicial Elections Evaluation Committee of 31 lawyers found both of them "Not Qualified." Calderon, with his savvy political machine......

Betty Yee, Ashley Swearengin and a relatively known Republican, David Evans, are pushing California Speaker John Perez into a tie for third place for California Controller in early returns, mostly absentee ballots. Evans' solid showing in absentees is somewhat unexpected in the fight to replace the popular outgoing Controller John......

Looks like California voters like the idea of helping out troubled vets with special new housing, as early returns show a strong 65.8 percent in favor of the Veterans Housing & Homeless Bond Act of 2014, with 34.2 percent of voters opposed. The proposition is being closely watched by angry......