Mark Cromer

It’s Friday evening and as dusk settles across the gritty streets of Pomona’s south side, two things quickly become apparent: who is on the street and who is not. Hundreds of small children flit about front yards and along sidewalks, invigorated by a cool evening breeze and carefree in the......

Dr. Peter Kerndt is hoppin’ mad. Even over the phone it is clear that L.A. County’s epidemiologist and point man for HIV is pacing back and forth, his voice revving louder and tone sharpening, his words firing faster as he zeroes in on the porn moguls who call the shots......

When two Claremont police officers rolled into the parking lot of Howard Johnson’s Express Inn early last week, it sounded like just another routine call. The motel’s desk clerk had reported a stoned, agitated man in the lobby claiming his car had been stolen. Just another duster who wandered up......

In one of the salient moments during testimony to the Meese Commission, porn sage William Margold remarked wryly to the commissioners that they need not worry about, or waste taxpayer dollars investigating, the adult-entertainment industry. ”Just leave us alone,“ Margold noted ruefully, ”and we‘ll destroy ourselves.“ Well, not quite. In......

It was early Saturday evening when I first caught a moment of the accident flashing across the television screen at my mom‘s home, where I’d stopped by to help her move some furniture. I recall hearing something about a teenager losing control of a sports utility vehicle and slamming into......

Photo by Sophie Olmsted Cheerful wouldn’t be the word to describe how porn star Tony Montana looks as he comes bouncing through the door at Leisure Time Entertainment’s compound in Van Nuys. No, the man looks downright happy. Sporting a leather biker jacket emblazoned with the American flag, gray jeans,......

When the word began filtering through the Daily Bulletin’s newsroom in September that the Los Angeles Times was about to launch a daily edition in the Pomona Valley, editors felt a collective sense of dread. It seemed the big boy from downtown was finally coming over Kellogg Hill looking for......

It‘s pushing past 10 o’clock on Friday night, and smoke from a barrage of fireworks still lingers above the historic grandstand at the Los Angeles County Fair. The crowds that pack the broadway jostle for the exits and that last, vain dash to the beer stands that these days are......

Photo by Walt Weis As deranged Vietnam vet Manuel Babbitt slipped into oblivion Tuesday inside San Quentin’s death chamber, his execution meant different things to different people: a cold and futile night for protesters demonstrating outside the prison walls against the death penalty; the taste of justice for those across......

Photo by Terry Pierson Last Wednesday, the nearly 200,000 readers of the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin awoke to find a color mug shot of a man staring smugly back at them from the paper’s front page. Spread across his face was a wide, tight-lipped grin. Like a Cheshire cat who......