A black man was fatally shot by LAPD officers just after 5 p.m. on Thursday, October 7, at 2048 East 114th Street in Watts. He has since been identified by the coroner as 18-year-old James Davis. According to the Los Angeles Times, the officers were patrolling a housing project called......
In an unlikely twist of solidarity, the Los Angeles Unified School District has arrived at a similar solution to a troubling spree of gay teen suicides as the true maestro of L.A. youth -- celebrity blogger Perez Hilton. For the good of the children, both have promised to play on......
Well-dressed patriots rejoiced and broke consumer whores wept this morning, when a giant shipment of 24,000 "Coach" scarves from China was stopped in its tracks at the Los Angeles/Long Beach Seaport. With hound-like intuition, Customs and Border Protection officials determined there was something just not quite right about a giant......
Compton Unified School District Superintendent Kaye Burnside was finally dropped from her five-month wait of shame Tuesday night, when the district board voted 4-2 for her permanent departure. Back in May, the Compton Bulletin reviewed her credit-card records to find the following:......
The current parking fiasco on West 3rd Street in Los Angeles, just east of Beverly Hills, might just out-drama tomorrow night's "Real Housewives" premiere. Ah, the problems of the rich and famous. The Beverly Wilshire Homes Association's most recent newsletter was a call to arms against evils like "mansionization" and......
More than a year after the Station Fire spread from Angeles National Forest to wipe out 89 homes and take the lives of two firefighters, the U.S. Forest Service still can't point to a culprit for its embarrassingly slow response, which allowed a small blaze to become a monster last......
Updated after the jump: Competitor Jose Huizar one-ups Martinez. Originally posted at 1:52 p.m. Finally -- an L.A. City Council candidate who can rack up airline miles on his own credit card, instead of mooching off the public fund. With a $202,620 campaign budget -- $150,000 of which came from......
