The press release for Jack LaLanne's 95th birthday celebration was forwarded to me with a colleague's query: "Who here knows who Jack LaLanne is?" Answers began arriving quickly. "I used to watch him on black and white TV bef...

JJ Hollywood Booking PhotoJesse James Hollywood, the now-29-year-old West Hills man depicted in the film Alpha Dog, has been found guilty, it's just been announced, of ordering members of his young drug-dealing crew to kill 15-year-old Nicholas M...

How high can taxes go? Ask L.A. City Councilwoman Janice Hahn, whose Wednesday proposal to tax local pot dispensaries received approving nods from colleagues Dennis Zine and Bill Rosendahl.

​Landlords Good . . . Rent Control Bad: Two angry-as-all-heck Libertarian Party members (center) picket at a rent-control rally held at a Santa Monica High School auditorium. LA Herald-Examiner/LAPL

Grassroots political activists citywide took a hit last week when none of the eight neighborhood candidates in the Council District 2 special election made it into the runoff. Instead, special interest-backed candidates Christine Essel and Paul...

​A Wall Street Journal reporter decided to spend five days touring the City of Angels using only public transportation. Guess what? He didn't enjoy himself. Travel costs were less than $30, but the time spent getting from one place to another often...

Los Angeles' Will Rogers State Park ​Schwarzenegger has spared hundreds of California parks from being closed, at least for now. By restructuring the state parks budget, Sacramento will fix a $14.2 million deficit and avoid shutting down...

​A 25-year-old L.A. mother explains herself against charges she gave her 4-year-old son narcotics. LA Examiner/USC