Simone Wilson

This out-of-control heat wave, combined with our usual traffic mayhem, has made it hard out there for a pool guy on the streets of L.A.: Brian Humphrey of the L.A. City Fire Department says that over the last week, two separate car crashes involving pool-service vehicles have resulted in dangerous......

Deutsche Bank's head of media and entertainment investing here in Los Angeles doesn't have too much in common with the 99 percent. But his recent allegations against the LAPD make him out to be an average Occupite: According to TMZ, bank executive Brian Mulligan claims he was forced into a......

Just call us the Bleeding Heart State: Yesterday, leading up to a U.S. Supreme Court decision in Texas that will determine once and for all the constitutionality of considering race in university admissions, California Attorney General Kamala Harris joined the nation's most prestigious public university system -- the University of......

Rebecca Weiss, a 50-year-old businesswoman from Marina Del Rey, left to go freediving in Rancho Palos Verdes on Saturday morning, says her husband Alan -- and never came home. According to reports, the couple often goes diving off the Palos Verdes Peninsula at Terranea, a luxury oceanfront resort. Alan Weiss......

One labor organization's doomsday scenario for a Wal-Mart invasion of L.A. County is starting to look less and less outlandish. Late last week, Wal-Mart officials announced plans for two new "neighborhood markets" in the L.A. area: One is set to open in a deserted party-supply store in Downey, and the......

As is tradition after big American achievements or tragedies (such as, earlier this month, Michael Phelps' 19th Olympic medal and the Sikh community's tragic loss), President Obama reached out to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory this morning over telephone. You'd think the big White House phone call could have upgraded to......

As L.A. City Hall and the LAPD lean further and further left on immigration policy -- following in the footsteps of the DREAMy, Latino-friendly state Legislature -- the L.A. County Sheriff has yanked even harder to the right. Compared to his liberal peers, "Teflon" Sheriff Lee Baca is turning into......

A Metro bus was involved in a dramatic three-vehicle crash near downtown Culver City around 5:45 p.m., according to the L.A. City Fire Department. "Holy shit!" Tweeted L.A. resident Victor Flores. "Just seen some dude cause an accident then drive into a bus." KTLA footage showed the nose of a......