The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday approved a $650,000 payout for a man who successfully fought how the city of Los Angeles processes challenges to parking tickets. Cody Weiss, who sued the city in 2014 after he received a parking ticket, argued that the city unlawfully allows a private for-profit company to process challenges to tickets. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled in his favor last year, and the decision was upheld by the Second District Court of Appeal.

One in every 5 of the Los Angeles Community College District’s 230,000 students is homeless, and nearly two-thirds can’t afford to eat properly, according to a new survey commissioned by the system’s board of trustees. The study looked at students with unstable housing and ”food insecurity,” which is defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as lacking enough to eat to sustain an active, healthy life.

The president of the civilian panel that oversees the Los Angeles Police Department said he will direct the LAPD’s watchdog to review its cadet program, the latest inquiry stemming from a series of disturbing allegations involving the long-championed youth program. Matt Johnson, the head of the Police Commission, said he would ask Inspector General Alex Bustamante to look into how the LAPD recruits and supervises its...

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Moguls, tycoons, celebrities can now skip LAX crowds, for a fee. By Steve Lopez.

Disturbance Cycle is a series of electronic works that excavates the ghostly remains of the Los Angeles riots.

In the early ’80s, a tough-as-nails, all-female skateboard gang calling themselves “the Hags” became legendary on the streets of West L.A. By Emily Savage.

A gang member who was recently freed from jail killed his cousin and stole his car Monday then shot and killed a California police officer and wounded his partner before being wounded himself, authorities said. Whittier Officer Keith Lane Boyer died and Officer Patrick Hazell was wounded when they answered a report of a traffic accident in the eastern Los Angeles County suburb. A motorist pointed out the location of the car that had rear-ended his vehicle, and the officers approached the driver.

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has been moving quickly on the development of what he calls the Boring Company. In January of last year, he presented a proposal at the Hyperloop Pod Competition for a company that would lighten traffic through...

Wes Lang is famous for Kanye’s Yeezus graphics. But the L.A. painter’s fast cars, big rings, and awe-inspiring spaces will make you lust after much more than just concert tees. BY Zach Baron. (Aug. 22, 2016)

The latest figures on Los Angeles County residents’ educational attainment might lead you to think that way too many of them don’t have enough schooling to get a job. Twenty-one percent of Angelenos over 25 have a high school diploma but nothing more, while 22% of them, according to the year-end survey by the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp., don’t even have that.

Detectives with the Los Angeles Police Department released a surveillance video of a man robbing a 7-Eleven store with only his hands. He entered the store Nov. 16 on El Segundo Boulevard at Figueroa Street. Police said he simulated a gun and ordered employees to empty the register. His hand was visible under his shirt and behind his back as he jumped over the counter and took $300 from the register.

Each night, tens of thousands of people sleep in tent cities crowding the palm-lined boulevards of Los Angeles, far more than any other city in the nation. The homeless population in the entertainment capital of the world has hit new record highs in each of the past few years. But a 39-year-old struggling musician from South LA thought he had a creative fix. Elvis Summers, who went through stretches of homelessness himself in his 20s, raised over $100,000 through crowdfunding campaigns last spring.

Elvis Summers crowdfunded $100,000 to build dozens of tiny homes. City officials looking to pass a $2 billion housing plan tried to shut him down. [Video with transcript]

When the world gives you lemons, make lemonade. When the world gives you an underpass, make it your home. That seems to be the philosophy of this homeless man who has turned an underpass into his own spot of paradise. Supercool Ceola Waddell Jr, 59, has lived under a road in LA for the last six months. But he’s living in relative luxury with two toilets, sofas, a bed and even a jacuzzi.

Motorists who get questionable parking tickets in Los Angeles and, possibly, other California cities have won a huge victory, due to a decision by the California Supreme Court. The court issued a ruling that will force the city of Los Angeles to start handling parking ticket disputes itself, instead of subcontracting them to third-party company Xerox as it has done for years. A 2014 NBC4 I-Team investigation found that a Xerox subcontractor automatically denied most ticket appeals, even when citizens presented strong evidence they were wrongly ticketed, forcing many motorists to pay tickets they believe were unfair.

Uni High tapped into the pop-psych teachings of the ‘70s to create one of the most bizarre curriculums of the era. By David Kukoff.

Three people were killed and 12 wounded early Saturday at a shooting in a Los Angeles restaurant. Police have taken two “persons of interest” into custody but are still searching for other suspects. LAPD Sgt. Frank Preciado said there were about 50 people inside a restaurant in the West Adams district when an argument started between two separate groups. Three men left, came back with guns and began shooting at the other group, while members of that group returned fire, Preciado said.

The most important fast food restaurant in America is a radical burger joint in Watts. By Willy Blackmore.

A smartphone app provided Los Angeles International Airport police with the tools to help save a suicidal man from jumping off a parking garage ledge. Surveillance video captured the frightening scene in which a young man hangs over the edge of the five-story parking structure just across from Terminal 4. Airport police officers Mike Dear and Bartolo Castro were among the first to respond, and immediately Dear realized there was a language barrier.