Environment reporter Margot Roosevelt's note to the newsroom tells the story. Plus another exit, and Tim Rutten's KCRW appearance.

Photograph by William Reagh, courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library's photo archive.

Generally, the redrawing is likely to benefit Democrats more than Republicans.

Don't expect too many surprises at City Hall.

Faced with stepped-up scrutiny, pilots might want to pull back a touch,

Authorities are investigating Hideki Irabu's death as an apparent suicide and hanging.

The veteran LAT columnist talks to Warren Olney about being laid off.

It comes just a day after a near-riot broke out at the premiere of a documentary on the Electric Daisy Carnival.

Done in by a daughter, a lawyer, and a federal judge.

The 84-seat landmark now charges 50 cents a cup on orders from owner and former L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan.

You have to wonder whether it's worth all the time, effort and political maneuvering.

Crowd had assembled outside the theater, which had been premiering a movie about the Electric Daisy Carnival festival.

In addition to the newsroom turmoil at the Los Angeles Times, a couple of other transitions to note today. Tina Dupuy is leaving Fishbowl LA — voluntarily! — after three...

One of the Los Angeles Times newsroom veterans who found today that she was laid off is Jane Engle, an assistant editor in Travel who has written a lot for the Travel section.

Too much money has been spent on pet projects.

NBA writer Mark Heisler is out, according to a source.

The City Council just voted 13-0 to kill off the program,.

All book-related pieces will now be done in-house, part of another cost-cutting move at the paper. Among those out of a gig: Susan Salter Reynolds, a former staffer who had...

A $25,000 raise given to the guy in charge of the Coliseum's not-so-savory finances appears to have done the trick.

I'm off to the Pacific Northwest and the upper end of California for a week.

A release just sent out notes that Trutanich's exploratory committee has raised $507,000, and claims the endorsements of former mayor Richard Riordan and Sheriff Lee Baca.

It seems that newcomers are negotiating lower prices while the older mariachis are trying to maintain the traditional $50 hourly rate. About 200 of the price-fixers belong to United Mariachi...

Brown nominates Goodwin Liu to state high court, Democratic gains under new districts, red-light cameras likely ending, websites of ex-TV reporters and more.

Before she left the City Council, Rep. Janice Hahn made the motion that City Hall East — the white boxy building across Main Street from actual City Hall — be renamed for her brother, the former mayor.

Reporting extended from Mexico to Bell to the Bronx, says the memo by Times editor Russ Stanton.

Ana Garcia is moving back to the investigative team full-time. The new 6 p.m. anchor on Channel 4 is Lucy Noland, recently imported from Houston. She starts tonight.

Jacob Lassen works as a commercial actor sometimes, and crawls under houses the rest of the time.

The New York Times features a photo project on Lakewood by Tom M. Johnson.

Amazon politics, Villaraigosa's legacy and new platform, Hector Tobar book on Chilean miners, Olivia Wilde's journalism roots, white flight into the cities and more.

Does Billy Bob Barnett want to protect the citizens of Los Angeles, or is this political payback? You decide.

After the Rodney King verdict riots in 1992, George Ramos wrote a first-person piece in the L.A. Times that began "Los Angeles, you broke my heart. And I'm not sure I'll love you again."

The Wall Street Journal editorial page on Saturday notoriously blamed the massacre on Muslim jihadists, without hedging language (or apparently reading the paper's own front page story.)

Leo Braudy and Timothy Egan on what to take from last weekend's unexpectedly light traffic.

The body of Ramos, the former L.A. Times staff writer and editor, was found in his Morro Bay home after he did not respond to calls from colleagues at CalCoastNews.com.

Chuck Manatt was co-founder in Los Angeles of the law firm now called Manatt, Phelps & Phillips and served as national (and California) chairman of the Democratic Party and co-chair of Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign for president. Manatt died Friday night at a Richmond, Va., hospital of complications from a stroke.