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Is Professional Football Finally Headed to Los Angeles?
By Jimmy Spencer - AOL NewsProfessional football may return to Los Angeles as soon as next year. The United Football League is in discussions to place a new franchise in Los Angeles, league commissioner Michael Huyghue told FanHouse on Wednesday. Huyghue said that the league is in conversations with three potential ownership groups that have expressed interest in bringing a UFL franchise to Los Angeles. He declined to name specifics on any of the various ownership groups. "Los Angeles becomes particularly important for us," Huyghue said in a phone interview. "It's a market we would very much like to be in, that's no ...
Jim Morrison's Ghost Said to Haunt Restaurant Bathroom
By Chris Epting - AOL News(July 1) -- July 3 marks 39 years since Jim Morrison, the deep-voiced front man for the band The Doors, was found dead in an apartment bathtub in Paris, France. But that doesn't mean "The Lizard King" isn't still making the rounds in one of his former West Hollywood haunts. As devout fans gather at his Parisian grave this weekend, looking for signs of the brooding singer and poet's spirit, they might be better served if they visited a Mexican restaurant at 8512 Santa Monica Blvd. Chris Epting, AOL Mexico is a Los Angeles restaurant that once housed The Doors' recording studio where Jim ...
LA Coliseum Bans Raves After Teen's Death
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(July 1) -- The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum has temporarily banned raves after a 15-year-old died Tuesday after a suspected drug overdose last weekend at a counterculture festival that drew 185,000 to the stadium. The Coliseum Commission president, Barry Sanders, said Wednesday he was instructing Coliseum managers not to book any more raves -- dance parties with electronic music -- until commissioners meet to discuss the issue on July 16. His order was reported by the Los Angeles Times and The Associated Press, among others. The stadium hosted the 1932 and 1984 Olympics, as well as all ...
Rave in LA Sends 120 to Hospital; Docs Urge Ban
By Scott Martelle - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES (June 29) -- A massive two-day rave at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum that sent 120 mostly drugged-out teens and young adults to emergency rooms -- and may have led to the death of one -- has sparked a call by some doctors for the dance parties to be banned. The Los Angeles Times reported late today that a 15-year-old girl had died from a suspected drug overdose after the counterculture event, which local officials already were considering disallowing next year. Promoter Insomniac Events' publicist, Alexandra Greenberg, told AOL News "the promoter is unreachable for comment" ...
Daryl Gates: The LAPD Chief Who Stayed Too Long
By Lou Cannon - Politics DailyDaryl Francis Gates, the chief who shaped the Los Angeles Police Department for better and for worse, was celebrated Tuesday by the rank-and-file officers whom he led and loved. "He was the chief to police officers, truly America's police chief," said former Deputy LAPD chief Michael Hillmann at a funeral fit for a military hero at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. Gates, 83, died last week from bladder cancer. These remarks were an amazing tribute coming from Hillmann, who as a lieutenant in the LAPD's elite Metro unit in April 1992, vainly attempted to warn a key deputy of Gates ...
Las Vegas Writer Pads Resume With Crazy Jobs
By David Moye - AOL News(April 23) -- In this economy, any good job is a good job -- even when your job is to do as many crazy jobs as possible. And that's how Corey Levitan earns his keep. Levitan, 44, is a columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and his specialty is tackling the most bizarre jobs that Sin City has to offer. Since his first column appeared in January 2007, Levitan has performed a wide variety of tasks, including washing sperm, being a go-go dancer in a gay nightclub and impersonating Sonny Bono at a blackjack table. ...
Recent Killings End Downward Trend in LA Homicides
By Scott Martelle - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES (March 30) -- A recent spate of killings has all but wiped out a double-digit dip in Los Angeles homicides this year, the police chief told the City Council today, placing some of the blame on budget cuts that make it hard to redeploy police officers to counter crime sprees. Police Chief Charlie Beck, who took over from William Bratton in November, said that overall violent crime remained down 15 percent from the previous year, the Los Angeles Times reported. After a modest start to the year, 19 people were killed in the last 11 days, for a total of 70, or only two fewer than at ...
Confidentially, LA Isn't All Sunshine and Palm Trees
By Scott Martelle - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES (Feb. 19) -- Paradise is looking a little tattered. Two recent reports measuring health and socioeconomics suggest that Los Angeles, long the place where dreams come to flourish, can be a tough place to live. The reports, one by the local United Way and the other by a national community health advocacy group, paint the city of sunshine and palm trees as a place in which people lead unhealthy lives and where over the past decade there has been little improvement for the working poor. And another recent study found that Los Angeles residents living close to freeways had higher ...
LA Hoping to Create an Easy Ride for Cyclists
By Scott Martelle - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES (Feb. 8) – It took some battered bodies as a catalyst, but the city of Los Angeles – where cars matter even more than celebrities – is looking to add protections for its growing numbers of urban cyclists. The city is contemplating a "Cyclists' Bill of Rights" being pushed by the Bike Writers Collective of blogging bike enthusiasts. It is also working on defining networks of side streets to separate bicycle traffic from heavily traveled roads and exploring a bike-sharing program in parts of the city. The moves come 18 months after a notorious case of cycling road ...
Los Angeles Suburbs Clean Up After Mudslides
By not in system - AOL NewsLA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. (Feb. 7) -- Residents evacuated from foothill communities deluged by weekend mudslides north of Los Angeles were allowed to return home Sunday as crews moved debris and started clearing catch basins in anticipation of more rain later in the week. The final evacuation order was lifted for about 70 homes in the Paradise Valley area of La Canada Flintridge, said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Guillermina Saldana. Only residents with valid identification were allowed back into the neighborhood that was choked with a thick layer of mud and debris during a ...
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