Gregory Taylor has served 13 years of his 25-to-life sentence for "trying to break in to a church kitchen to find something to eat," and today he is a free man, according to an AP report published on the Huffington Post. more ›

The murder of 17-year-old Lily Burk captured the city's attention a few weeks ago when she left her Los Feliz home on an errand to Southwestern University for her mother, a professor there. Burk encountered Charles Samuel, a parolee, who abducted her and tried to get money out of her via Burk's credit card at several ATMs. It didn't work and she was left with a slashed throat in a parked car in Skid Row. Samuel was arrested a half hour later, albeit for a different reason. Police only connected him to the murder in the following days. more ›