LA (Not So) Confidential
Cleaning up LA City Hall will require restructuring the City Council By JOHN SHALLMAN The recent New York Times article detailing the extensive corruption at Los Angeles City Hall was...
Category: True Crime
Leaving L.A., Will the Last Person Here Turn Out the Lights?
The slogan used to be "To Live and Die in LA" but they should change it to "To Live and Die While Riding the Metro in L.A" because I fear that each ride I take on the train or the bus will be the...
Murder on the Metro, LA’s Dangerous Orient Express
Police presence and intervention is a deterrent to crime on the city's public transit system — something that is hard to even talk about in these days of stifling expectations of the politically...
‘People Used to Stare at Me Because I Was So Beautiful, and Now They Stare at Me Because…’
Roberta Dos Santos Busby, a Brazilian-born exotic dancer, gets too choked up with emotion and can’t finish the thought: That people now stare at her because of the extensive scar tissue from burns...
Gypsy Untethered
The stranger than strange saga of the famous, or infamous, diminutive Gypsy Rose Blanchard, victim of her mother's cruel deception and manipulation or just possibly a manipulator herself of her...
Pete Rose and Baseball’s Sheer Utter Stupidity
Pete Rose, the man with more hits than anyone in the history of Major League Baseball, this titan of baseball is conspicuously absent from the Hall of Fame. The reason? He gambled on baseball....
IS L.A. THE MOST CORRUPT CITY IN AMERICA?
That’s a lot of bad behavior – criminal and otherwise – for a 15-member body over the span of a few years. And it naturally raises the concern that something deeper is happening at City Hall....
There is Scum of the Earth, and Then There Is Johnny Ray Gasca
A Bronx man dubbed “The Big Apple Bandit” back home and the “Prince of Piracy Scams” in Los Angeles has been sentenced to nearly 26 years in federal prison for kidnapping a...
José Huizar’s Last Words & What a Waste of a Princeton Education
The disgraced City Councilman’s letter to U.S. District Judge John F. Walter seeking a reduced sentence failed to win any leniency even as it underscored how far he had come and how high he had...
A Murder in Hollywood: Obsessed Film Extra Guns Down Producer’s Son in Cold Blood
Movie stand-in Jameelah Elena Michl fell so madly in love with her film's beautiful director that she began stalking her — even brandishing a Glock — and when the director didn't return her...
DALLAS 60 YEARS LATER: BOB JACKSON AND ‘THE SHOT’
The national tragedy of November 22, 1963, affected all of us in different ways. For me, it intensified my childhood dream of wanting to write and later of wanting to report the news. By TONY CASTRO...
Man Suspected of Tagging Cars with Swastikas Arrested
City News ServiceLOS ANGELES — A 37-year-old man suspected of spray painting swastikas on 13 vehicles in Inglewood, Ladera Heights, View Park and Windsor Hills was in custody Wednesday....
Why DA Gascón Needs to be Removed from Office
“It just seems that the district attorney wants to spare a life, when (the suspect) didn’t spare my son’s life — he executed my son.” —Kim Clinkunbroomer The mother of the Los Angeles...
Leslie Van Houten Should Still Be in Prison
BY LOUISE LABIANCA Love and logic do not always mesh together in neat, harmonious ways. This idea has occurred to me more than once as I try to reach a logical conclusion and accept that the woman...
Armed Man Arrested at RFK Jr. Hispanic Event
LOS ANGELES — Police arrested a man allegedly posing as a United States Marshal during a Hispanic Heritage Month event attended by Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on...
Beverly Hills Real Estate Agent Murdered
Los Angeles police have launched a murder investigation into the apparent homicide of a beautiful 31-year-old Beverly Hills licensed real estate agent who was found slain inside her downtown Los...
‘A celebrity murder: Quick, someone call Dominick Dunne’
By Tony Castro Columnist, Los Angeles Daily News DOMINICK DUNNE SURVEYED THE ORNATE, hacienda-style lounge at the legendary Chateau Marmont hotel, knotted his thick gray eyebrows in disapproval and...
Will Smash & Grabbers Smash & Grab Gascón’s Egalitarian Crusade?
STARING AT AN UPHILL REELECTION FIGHT next year and in the wake of two high profile mob-style luxury store robberies, Los Angeles County’s increasingly unpopular District Attorney George Gascón...