Simone Wilson

The night of October 31/morning of November 1 are inevitably rough on the crime front -- something about unlimited Skittles and slutty schoolgirls brings out the evil in any community. This year was no exception in L.A., with a slew of messy shootings and even more deadly road rage than......

Mayor Villaraigosa and the Subway-to-Sea dreamers aren't the only ones with pricey public transportation on their lists this holiday season. The Pasadena Star-News reported yesterday that city officials and Pasadena businesses have set their sights on a shiny new trolley that would run a one-way, two-mile loop, connecting the city's......

A man fatally shot around 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 26, has been identified as 38-year-old Marlin Harvey. The shooting took place on the 1300 block of West 95th Street, between Vermont and Normandie Avenues, according to City News Service......

Do the math, CNNE: Miami's population might be 20 percent more Latino than ours, but Los Angeles is bigger -- so in the end, we have close to a quarter million more Latino residents than that other palm-tree postcard city, way over there on the muggy side of the continent......

Who cares if it won't de-congest traffic, as promised by L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa back when he needed taxpayer support? The extension of the L.A. Metro Purple Line (why does that sound so gay) another 12 minutes west was approved by the Metro board of directors today. The agency did......

The Weekly has long had an eye on sketchy billboard deals throughout Los Angeles. In 2008, we reported that 4,000 of the city's 11,000 billboards were illegal, built without permits or earthquake regulations. Then came the Westside "Mad Men," fat-cat entrepreneurs who were skirting the law to erect supergraphic billboards......

After 48-year-old Laura Finley died last Saturday from a suspicious tumble down the 1920s-era Millenium Biltmore Hotel's grand stairwell, the Mayfair Hotel -- a few blocks to the west, on the other side of the 110 -- had a bizarre meltdown of its own last night. "We were watching a......

Some of the highest-paid utility workers in the nation -- those lucky enough to work for the L.A. Department of Water and Power -- are not about to let their retirement benefits near the drain of the current economic downturn. Hundreds of passionate DWP employees swarmed outside the L.A. City......

Halloween (and Election Night) couldn't come soon enough for a group of hooligans in East County yesterday. Just after the last couple customers had moseyed out, five masked men descended upon an El Pollo Loco branch at 1212 Huntington Drive in Duarte, helping themselves to $4,000 from the company safe......

This just in: There was an unforeseen wrench thrown in Republican senatorial candidate Carly Fiorina's campaign this morning. Fiorina has been hospitalized due to an infection related to the reconstructive surgery she received after surviving breast cancer......