Simone Wilson

We love breastfeeding. We especially loved breastfeeding when we were small, bald and toothless. It's a beautiful thing, and no woman should ever be told when or where she can or can't breastfeed. Because when baby hunger strikes, Mother Nature abides, mmk? But what we can't figure out is why......

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, hailed nationally as a rising Latino Democrat but ridiculed locally for ignoring L.A.'s long list of street-level problems, could be heard re-telling the chilling tale of his childhood abuse at the Democratic National Convention last week. (At which he also made headlines for taking a......

A young Southern California rapper who went by the names of "Jew'elz" and "Inkyy" has been identified as one of five men in their early 20s who died in a suspected drunk-driving crash on Labor Day weekend. The San Bernardino Sun reports that Erwin McKiness, 21, Tweeted the ironic and......

Tragedy struck the seaside town of Laguna Niguel in the wee hours this morning, when friends tell the local Patch that 20-year-old Carlos Salas was killed just 400 feet from his house. Orange County Sheriff's investigators say the young victim was skateboarding home from a friend's place around 3:48 a.m......

The troubled son of esteemed Pepperdine University President Andrew K. Benton will serve two years in prison, says the L.A. County District Attorney's Office, for threatening his father at the family's on-campus home and "possession of a firearm by a narcotic addict." Chris Benton, 27, allegedly brought the stolen gun......

See also: "Report: Los Angeles Now Has More Bed Bugs Than New York" and "Women Surprised to Find Bed Bugs at $62 Glendale Motel, Sue." At least two bed bugs have been spotted at L.A. Central Library in the last month -- one on August 9, crawling across a reference......

The LAPD fears that the owner of Valleywide Driving School in Granada hills, a 44-year-old Filipino man named Joselito Valencia Danan (but known locally as "Joey"), may have a habit of coming onto his driver-ed students. A 17-year-old boy claims he was sexually molested by Danan during a driving lesson......

See also: "8.6 Quake Possible in Southern California? Caltech Suggests New 'Mega-Earthquake'." As the Westside lay its collective head to rest last night after a terribly lackluster VMA ceremony, we finally got the jolt we'd been waiting for -- in the form of a 3.5 3.4 magnitude earthquake directly beneath......