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UPDATE: A Lifetime movie featuring LA Weekly reporter Christine Pelisek explores the DNA-based manhunt for the alleged Grim Sleeper. Suspect Lonnie Franklin Jr. Read full Post
LeChein Taylor took out a cell phone and called his brother Bo. Bo Taylor, founder of the gang-prevention, intervention and life-skills program Unity One, didn’t p Read full Post
The doughnuts were first. A dozen of them appeared on Sarah Jo Marks’ dining room table one afternoon. They stared at her. They had eyes. Honey, what did you do Read full Post
Nick Shields is sitting in a well-worn chair at the window of his two-bedroom apartment on a sleepy West Hollywood block. The 65-year-old former off-off-Broadway ac Read full Post
Early reports are calling the fire that gutted three acres of Universal Hollywood's back lot an accident. However, it is unclear what caused the June 1 fire and Read full Post
Inyo County sheriff investigators officially called off the dig for human remains Wednesday at remote Barker Ranch, the last known hideout of Charles Manson and his Read full Post
When you walk down a flight of steps to a base­ment off an alleyway behind Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, you leave the yuppie bustle of Old Town and enter t Read full Post
For kids growing up in the 1970s, Evel Knievel was a superhero. This had less to do with his real-life motorcycle jumps of double-decker buses, blustery canyons and Read full Post
The recently shuttered Old Spaghetti Factory on Sunset east of Vine didn't take long to get a new paint job. These pieces went up within the past week. Oddl Read full Post
{mosimage}For Gabriel Goillen, night manager of Mel’s Drive-in on Highland Avenue in Hollywood, the events of May 13 still don’t register. Goillen was wo Read full Post
A black Lincoln Navigator sits abandoned in a dead-end alley off Atlantic Avenue in South Gate, its owner miles away, though not willingly. Across the alley, police Read full Post
LIKE IT WENT IN 1994, when Latinos in Los Angeles took to the streets to protest Proposition 187, Mexican flags were seen flapping all over L.A. during this week’s Read full Post