Update: “LA.'s top free-speech attorney says LAFD Chief Brian Cummings' media blackout is illegal and self-serving. And the department scrambles to mak
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Update: The dead driver has been identified as 55-year-old L.A. resident Elba Escobar. More at the bottom.
Originally posted March 20 at 6:10 p.m.
A horrific crash b
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Updated at the bottom with the guy's name: Also, this might not be a murder at all. First posted at 7:08 a.m. Monday.
A rare shooting in Malibu took the life of
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Now read this: KFI is vowing to diversify its staff and programming in response to the controversy.
We thought the Whitney Houston-was-a-crack ho remark by controver
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LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy, who oversees nearly 670,000 campuses as head of the nation's second largest school district, got some more great press today fro
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Updated at the bottom: She was arrested on suspicion of DUI. First posted at 1:58 p.m.
Immigrants' rights activists are coming to the aid of Cindy Reyna, a UC Sa
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You saw Sacha Baron Cohen, in character as The Dictator, take on the Academy Awards for allegedly refusing his punk-worthy entrance to the red carpet at the Oscars S
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So L.A. Unified School District has had a few alleged bad apples that only it and, in some cases, police knew about.
Despite what we've been told about federal T
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An insane car crash in Westlake last Thursday was overshadowed by two other big L.A. crime stories that day: the guy who shot up a Hollywood apartment before setting
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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 con
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Could L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca finally be turning the Sheriff's Department on its head, in an effort to save whatever scraps of reputation he has left after
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L.A. City Attorney Carmen Trutanich made it official this morning, announcing his candidacy for district attorney. Trutanich has been raising money for the campaign
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