Journalist Sam Quinones writes that street gangs have been retreating from public view all over Southern California for a few years now.

At the Motion Picture and Television Fund home in Woodland Hills, retirees from Hollywood produce, write -- and star in -- their own TV shows.

Sure, it's a whole city, but Inglewood is on the rise. So it counts.

For the first time in 12 years, LAPD crime reports show an increase in the statistical category labeled as violent crimes -- just months after the LA Times caught the department understating crime.

We've got items about politics, media, place, books, food, sports, the weather and even some news. Now 2015 can begin (for us.)

The Los Angeles News Group's printed guide to the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl calls the famous Pasadena stadium the "L.A. Coliseum."

When Sal LaBarbera retires on Jan. 31, "he'll leave a legacy as one of the best homicide cops in the history of LAPD, meaning one of the best anywhere," says an LA Weekly tribute.

It's going to be more chilly than usual for folks staying out overnight in Pasadena for the Rose Parade. Kind of ironic for a parade that has functioned throughout its history as a promotional piece for balmy Southern California cities to sell their mid-winter allure to frigid Easterners and Midwesterners.

Is the right wing's fantasy war on Christmas to blame? Maybe it's just the novelty of a fake TV fire wearing off — or the competition.

The officer was killed last night when he was trapped between a loose boat and rocks near the Green Pleasure Pier.

The renovated and rechristened Forum in Inglewood, former home of the Lakers and Kings, is a hit with music promoters.

Rainer won her second Academy Award at 28 then left 1930s Hollywood in a dispute with Louis B. Mayer. Her quick rise and fall are Hollywood legend.

Los Angeles magazine profiles Kings coach Darryl Sutter, who might be the most entertaining coach of any pro team in Los Angeles now that Phil Jackson is gone.

LACMA's VP in charge of getting the Levitated Mass boulder in place. A noted liberal rabbi. A former LA City Council member.

Of all the ways that Sony Pictures co-chair Amy Pascal's life is going to change because her studio emails were hacked and distributed around the internet, this might prove to be one of the more disturbing.

A staff video pays tribute to the sixteen-month run of the Register's presence in Long Beach. The final issue appeared Sunday.

Autopsy shows that the mentally ill black man in South LA was shot in the side, arm and back. LAPD Chief Charlie Beck met the media and took questions.