Jim Crogan

Photo by Ted Soqui After an opening round that has proved him unpredictable, if not surprisingly conservative, Democratic Governor Gray Davis has flunked a test of his commitment to core liberal values of prison reform and press freedom. That test was embedded in Assembly Bill 1440, one of approximately 2,000......

After shooting five people at a San Fernando Valley Jewish day camp, hijacking a woman’s car and murdering U.S. Postal worker Joseph Ileto, self-professed neo-Nazi and alleged shootist Buford O. Furrow went shopping. Furrow was the subject of intensive media attention and a manhunt involving hundreds of LAPD officers and......

Photo by Jim Crogan Donna Warren, a former Defense Department auditor, didn’t need Gary Webb’s three-part 1996 San Jose Mercury News series alleging connections between the CIA, Nicaraguan contras, convicted cocaine trafficker Ricky Ross and L.A. street gangs to understand how this insidious drug trade had savaged families in South-Central......

How many cops does it take to make an LAPD bomb squad? Want to know who's on the department's 10-most-wanted list? How can you commend an officer for a job well done, or report police misconduct? Now you can get your answers - along with hot links to sample a......

Less than two months ago, L.A. County seemed poised for a major retreat from General Relief, a program that provides temporary, subsistence-level aid for the destitute. In April, the Board of Supervisors approved time limits that reduced GR from nine months to a five-month-on/seven-month-off program. Next year the entitlement would......

"I’m taking on the last bastion of unbridled power in America: the press. So I knew I’d get criticized by them." Indeed, Steven Brill has been getting hammered in the weeks since he launched his new media-watch magazine, Brill’s Content. Brill, the media-savvy founder of American Lawyer magazine and Court......