Bad news, meth heads: The feds just took the good stuff off the streets of the San Gabriel Valley. After 16 months on the trail, with a little help from the DEA and the ATF, a gigantic task force of investigators from the FBI, the Pasadena PD, the L.A. County......
A young man wanted for questioning by the L.A. County Sheriff's Department after he apparently left the scene of Katie Wilkins' fatal drug overdose in Malibu last spring was arrested on the Pepperdine University campus today, where his father, Andrew Benton, reigns as university president. Sheriff's investigators told LA Weekly......
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After years of criticizing the every move of Los Angeles County's five-member governing board, gadfly extraordinaire Eric Preven -- known by county supervisors as the pesky mosquito who's never missed a meeting -- finally gets his crowing and legitimizing moment this week with a juicy expose on the board's V.I.P......
Repeated attempts to lend a hand at a hectic accident scene in the San Fernando Valley went south last night, City News Service reports. After a big white Chevy SUV lost control while trying to make a turn at Magnolia Boulevard around 8:25 p.m. -- knocking over a street lamp,......
On a blistering August day in suburban El Monte, sweating in his straw hat and slacks, San Marino orthopedic surgeon and self-made hospital mogul Dr. Matthew Lin rings another doorbell. Juan Gomez, the middle-aged man on the other side of the screen, doesn't quite understand what Lin is saying —......
A 44-year-old man named Scott Basko, who goes by "Scott Hollywood" on Facebook, was banned from the Glendale Galleria yesterday for allegedly perving on a group of teen girls -- while allegedly wearing the perviest outfit in the history of mall creepers, according to a report in the Glendale News-Press......
Thank god for nostalgic Hollywood fanboys in the Upper Midwest! As the Associated Press revealed last Wednesday, if it weren't for Minnesota artist and memorabilia hoarder Bill Mack, the original "Hollywoodland" sign, erected in 1923 and replaced in 1978, might have ended up a pile of scrap metal in a......
Breastfeeding: So hot right now! While supermoms like TIME covergirl and L.A. resident Jamie Lynne Grumet are fighting the good fight to breastfeed their toddlers in public (through radical nurse-ins called Boobie Paloozas; we kid you not), the female employees and visitors at L.A. City Hall would like to do......
How many elementary schoolers can say that four TV news vans and 16 psychiatric social workers showed up to their campus on the first day of the school? Welcome to the strange life of a Miramonte Elementary School student. After a horrifying sex scandal rocked the South L.A. campus last......
