Simone Wilson

Stock-market hawks saw this one from a mile away. Allergan shares jumped over 5 percent last week, after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved its anti-wrinkle housewife staple Botox for use on chronic migraine headaches. Ironic, seeing as the Irvine drug company just lost $600 million in an October......

One union supervisor working the Obama event this Friday apparently didn't get the whole "Freedom of Speech" memo. KTLA interviewed stagehand Duane Hammond at the scene, where he had just been fired from the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 33 union. According to Hammond, his supervisor told him......

Here we thought the L.A. City Council was getting cozy. But those old boys got nothin' on the five City Councilmembers of Alhambra -- a sweet stretch of suburbia just east of Glendale and south of Pasadena, population 86,000, apparently so content with itself that the November municipal elections have......

A UCSB body-boarder minding his own business just off the Vandenberg Air Force Base this morning had his leg bitten off by a shark, the Santa Maria Times reports. The unidentified 20-year-old was pulled to shore by his friend, who was surfing nearby (except on a surfboard, like a normal......

Los Angeles drivers aren't the only ones being screwed over by President Obama this Friday afternoon. The president's journey to the USC campus will also be cushioned by a blockade of air traffic within eight miles of LAX and downtown Los Angeles -- and within 10 miles of Burbank Airport......

A Latino male was fatally shot just after midnight on Saturday, October 16, on the 700 block of East 24th Street in Historic South Central. The victim has since been identified as 27-year-old gang member Alex Quintana......

A black man fatally shot outside his residence on Thursday, October 14, has been identified as 47-year-old Douglas Collins. The shooting took place on the 600 block of West 117th Street in Vermont Vista at about 10:30 p.m., the Los Angeles Times reports. LAPD Criminal Gang and Homicide Detective Scott......

A black male fatally shot in the chest on Thursday, October 14, has been identified as 19-year-old Adrien Moore, according to coroner's records. The shooting occurred at 103rd Street and Towne Avenue in Green Meadows, the Los Angeles Times reports......