Simone Wilson

There are places on this Earth where a little weather 'round the holidays is considered a comfort. Where good citizens of the roadway maneuver their vehicles up snowy switchbacks while whistling a jolly tune, waving g'day to their fellow motorists and texting in-laws with whatever frostbitten appendage is free. Nothin'......

We like to think it's pretty rough out here on the streets of Los Angeles. It seems like every hour we hear about another murder or robbery at gunpoint. So why, in this year's annual CQ Press crime rankings, does the City of Angels slide into a wimpy 162nd Place?......

An unidentified Black woman was fatally shot in the abdomen at 3:40 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 14. The shooting took place at Central Avenue and 51st Street in South L.A. The woman was transported to the USC Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at 12:15 p.m. the same day......

Update: Shorts was declared dead at the California Hospital Medical Center just before 6 a.m. on Christmas Day. The L.A. County coroner's office told the Los Angeles Times that "Shorts died from injuries he suffered during the shooting." A Black male who took a round of bullets while waiting in......

The young Calabassas hoodlums known as the Bling Ring -- who glamorously raided the homes of equally young, unequally loaded celebrities for whatever their hearts desired in 2008 and 2009 -- just saw their ringleader skip off scot-free. As of this afternoon, 20-year-old Rachel Lee is off the hook for......

It's the season for artistic public thieving in L.A. County. First, on Oct. 27, there was the guy with the Obama mask who stuck up an El Pollo Loco branch in Duarte with a toy knife. A week or so later, there was the scary Jason version, who one-upped Obama......

Californians want to have their cake, eat it too, but sure as hell not pay for it after the 2010 state election, a new USC poll shows. "Twenty-million-dollar deficit BAD, health care and education GOOD!," said three of every four voters in a random pool of about 1,700. The only......

Not shockingly, the Republican candidates of California are in a state of confusion after the ransacking they received on Election Day 2010. They can't understand why, when Latinos and Asian-Americans report being politically liberal at a lesser rate than whites -- and on many policies, vote more conservative -- the......

Here they are -- the eight delightfully commonplace members of the new California Citizens Redistricting Commission, tasked with what used to be the dirty-incumbent job of drawing up election boundaries. Maybe you knew it better as gerrymandering? Well, it's good 'n' pure truthmandering now, so get used to it. And......

If you don't watch "Jimmy Kimmel Live!", and you wouldn't be the only one, you probably had no clue that today was the unofficial (or official, if you ask him) house-cleaning day for Facebook hoarders everywhere. Kimmel calls it National Unfriend Day, or NUD. (We think he should have chosen......