Tessa Stuart

An intact skeleton was discovered in bushes by a loading dock back behind a shuttered Wal-Mart in Lancaster on July 5 of last year. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, seeking information about the mysterious remains, released this forensic reconstruction today......

Updated at the bottom with responses from Chancellor Block, Athletic Director Dan Guerrero and Coach Ben Howland. First posted at 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 29. UCLA is already defending its basketball program from a Sports Illustrated cover story that doesn't hit newsstands until Monday. The piece, which describes a culture......

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced Monday that, effective immediately, dogs will be permitted to join their owners on restaurant patios and in outdoor cafes. The agency previously prohibited canines from county eateries. Guidelines were established after numerous requests from dog owners and the owners of dog-friendly......

Life is like a burrito--you never know what you are going to get. One day it could be carnitas; the next it could be black tar heroin or a meat thermometer. One LAUSD student was the unlucky eater of a thermometer burrito served up by her school's cafeteria. Yesterday, the......

Detective Cliff Shepard has served with the Los Angeles Police Department for 37 years and 13 days. He retires today, bringing to a close a career spent tracking and catching some of the most notorious serial killers in L.A.'s history. There was Rodney Acala, the handsome and charismatic UCLA graduate......

Just hours after a post on this very blog reported on a rumor that construction was set to begin on Sunset Gordon, the controversial 23-story skyscraper, bulldozers were brought in to demolish the property's existing structure overnight. Sunset Gordon was the brainchild of Portland-based developer Gerding Edlen, who bought the......

If you are going to close a street in L.A., you better have a good excuse or an effective strategy to mollify enraged drivers. One group's answer? Polka dots. Griffith Park Boulevard between Sunset Boulevard, Maltman Avenue and Edgecliffe Drive closed Sunday, The Eastsider LA reports, and it will remain......

The latest chapter in a six-year Hollywood development saga starts next week when money-bags real estate conglomerate CIM Group will reportedly break ground on a controversial project that has already eaten up millions of dollars of city money in a protracted legal fight with perturbed neighbors. In 2008, Sunset Gordon......

The White House debuted its 2013 fiscal year budget Monday, and buried in the 250-page document is one line item could have big ramifications for L.A. County jails--the federal government slashed funding for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program by two-thirds compared to the previous year. Ten years ago, the......