Simone Wilson

A black woman found dead on Wednesday, October 13, at her home on the 12000 block of South Hoover Street has been identified as 53-year-old Denise Roberts......

A black man fatally shot on Monday, October 11, has been identified as 38-year-old Enrico Willingham. The shooting occurred on the 10900 block of South Figueroa in Vermont Vista just before 9 p.m., the Los Angeles Times reports......

A white man was shot dead by LAPD officers just after 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 28, in the 1600 block of West Temple Street in Westlake. He has since been identified as 25-year-old Jack Schlesinger......

The Weekly's cover story for March 6 -- "Black Lung Lofts," by Patrick Range McDonald -- revealed that the City of Los Angeles was allowing developers to build family housing alongside major freeways, despite glaring health risks for children. As of this morning, there's another such smog-magnet in the works......

Google wasn't the first to play god on street-level. At least, according to Pasadena company Vederi LLC, who is suing the Internet giant for infringing on five of its patents, which created a system for "creating, storing and utilizing images of a geographic location." The company was founded by Enrico......

In September, the Weekly began a hard-hitting investigation of all the ways New York City sucks compared to Los Angeles. Our findings were atrocious: Hordes of bedbugs, rats, possums and snakes ran rampant through NYC streets -- infesting backyards, toilet boils, Niketown and beyond. But if soulless rodents with scary......

As if "Avatar" didn't hit us over the head hard enough, director James Cameron is taking his devotion to Mother Nature a step further by pumping $1 million into the campaign against California's Proposition 23, the Sacramento Bee reports. The proposition would suspend the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006,......

Mother always said not to play on the tracks. It seems an undisclosed Hollywood commuter wasn't listening this morning, when he found himself wedged between a train and a platform at 7 a.m., CBS Los Angeles reports. Rescue workers quickly shut off the Metro Red Line near Hollywood Boulevard and......

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano made a highly publicized trip to Los Angeles' nearest border yesterday. She was quick and happy to tell the nation's news outlets from San Ysidro that illegal immigration has dropped 17 percent in the last year. "The manpower, the technology, the infrastructure all has enabled......

The sun may not be shining, but the University of California has more than one reason to beat its WASPy chest with pride this October. 1. Amid a slew of West Coast visits from top-billed politicians, USC snagged the No. 1 man on campus: President Obama himself. (Of course, this......